Selection of short films and animation 2003
Duration: 75'
Format: Betacam SP PAL-NTSC | DVD
This is a special selection of international short films and animation screened at L'Alternativa, Independent Film Festival of Barcelona in the last 2 years. The programme highlights the diversity of independent filmmaking showcased at L'Alternativa. Committed, absurd, comic and beautiful. Take a look.
CASA PACO (Paco's)
Spain 1996 . VO 11' 35mm Colour
Director: Ignacio Nacho
Producer: Europamerica Asesores
Camera: Antonio Sanz
Editor: Ignacio Nacho
Screenplay: Ignacio Nacho
Synopsis: CASA PACO: At your disposal is a large room, ideal for celebrating all types of events: weddings, baptisms, communions...
Contact: Teresa Enrich
TEXAS SUNRISE
Spain 2002 . VO 20' DV Colour
Director: Lluís Escartín
Producer: Armadillo producciones
Camera: Lluís Escartín
Editor: Lluís Escartín
Synopsis: Visual haiku of the everyday petit cataclysm, accompanied with words of an outcast talking about ancient values which were apparently exterminated by capitalism.
Contact: Lluís Escartín
POMMES D'AMOUR
Belgium / Norway 2001 . VO 5' DV B/W
Director: Nicolas Provost
Producer: Nicolas Provost Investigations
Editor: Nicolas Provost
Synopsis: A series of 3 mirror image videofilms about love and sorrow, narcisism, loss and Freud’s anal phase. Rewritten synthetic dialogues and recomposed sound-image the filmmaker uses scenes from Alain Resnais and Ingmar Bergman films to evoke a surreal, alienating and bizarre nostalgic mood.
Contact: Nicolas Provost
TELLING LIES
UK 2001 . VO 4,20' Betacam Colour
Director: Simon Ellis
Producer: Bub
Editor: Simon Ellis
Synopsis: The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone conversations chart the certain ruin of young Phil’s day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another.
Contact: Simon Ellis
POLSKY BUTTY
Scotland 2002 . VO 4' 16mm
Director: Matt Hulse
Synopsis: God, it is sometimes said, can be found in the details. But human caracter, secrets and dreams, I suspect, are revealed through what people wear on their feet. The good polish people of Wroclaw show what they are made of, feet first, through their lovely shoes. Kocham wasze polskie buty!
Contact: Matt Hulse
FREEDUB 1
France 2002 . VO 8' DV Colour
Director: Stephane Elmadjian
Producer: Christian Pfohl (Lardux Films)
Editor: Stéphane Elmadjian
Screenplay: Stéphane Elmadjian
Sonido: Adam Wolny
Música: Spira
Synopsis: The animal is a thinking human.
Contact: Christian Pfohl | Tel. +33 (0)1 48 59 41 88
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Scotland 2002 . VO 4' 16mm B/W
Director: Matt Hulse
Synopsis: A fresh version of the Sex Pistols’ classic of 1977, shot in British Sign Language (BSL), and timed to coincide with the queen’s jubilee (50 years on the throne). Silence is golden?
Contact: Matt Hulse
I MUST BE BEAUTIFUL TOO
Holland 2002 . VO 3' DV Colour
Director: Hester Scheurwater
Synopsis: The title gives a bitter meaning to the uneasy image of a women who is brushing her hair over her face with fierce movements. Mostly, the face remains impersonally hidden under her hair; when it is uncovered, we see how the rough scratches of the brush against the skin have smeared her lipstick.
Contact: Hester Scheurwater
HIDDEN STAR
Germany 2002 . VO 9' 16mm B/W
Director: Peter-Conrad-Beyer
Producer: Peter-Conrad-Beyer
Camera: Peter-Conrad-Beyer
Editor: Peter-Conrad-Beyer
Synopsis: Hidden Star is the hidden star you find after the battle with yourself. It is in every one of us-surely you can light it up!
Contact: Peter-Conrad-Beyer