| PEPITA & MAX, 6min, Family/Animation Directed by Rahel Ilona EisenringPepita and Max have all sorts of adventures. Monsieur Raf, Max’ toy giraffe, is always with them. When Max loses Monsieur Raf while hiking, the little boy can’t find sleep. Not even the Alpsegen, the lullaby of the mountains, which is meant to protect animals and people on the alp, helps. The peculiar tradition gives Pepita an idea: what works for Swiss alp-cows could also save a giraffe through the night. CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film! |
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Watch Audience FEEDBACK Video: 65.5 WOMEN, 6min, Norway, Experimental
65.5 WOMEN, 6min, Norway, Experimental
Directed by Liv Mari Mortensen
To understand a recent failure, a young man writes a statistic of all the women he ever slept with. As he tries to simplify all of his affairs into simple characteristics the memories start to take over, leaving him to face the only one he truly wanted.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
Watch Audience FEEDBACK Video: 65.5 WOMEN, 6min, Norway, Experimental
65.5 WOMEN, 6min, Norway, Experimental
Directed by Liv Mari Mortensen
To understand a recent failure, a young man writes a statistic of all the women he ever slept with. As he tries to simplify all of his affairs into simple characteristics the memories start to take over, leaving him to face the only one he truly wanted.
CLICK HERE – and see full info and more pics of the film!
Watch Audience Feedback Video: BENDED BONDS, 6min, Belgium, Drama
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BENDED BONDS, 6min, Belgium, Drama
Directed by Julie Janssens
Sarah and Jane, two sisters, haven’t spoken to each other for years. The death of their mother forces them to come together to make the arrangements for their legacy. Their painful memories and resentments crawl back to the surface.
Director Statement
The challenge of the movie was to communicate the paradox and complexity of siblings relationships through dialogs, silences and gazes. From an outside perspective, these tensions may seem ridiculously intense and dramatic. Sarah and Jeanne have a hard time understanding each other. They are trying to get away from some patterns transmitted by generational legacy. They claim who they are but they struggle to move through the perception of the family they grew up with.
What particularly concerns me is the unconditional love we share with our siblings. It’s the kind of relationship that allows low blows and induces a duty to reconcile. This relationship is undeniable because it is “the same flesh, the same blood”.
Also reconciliations are special in this love/hate relationship. From what I have observed in my own family, seldom are there proper apologies or truthful excuses. Most of the time, with my sister, we renew contact without obtaining a conflict resolution. Time passes, we forget about it until the next hint that will rekindle the flame. Between siblings we know exactly what to say to each other to piss or hurt each other. These recurrent conflicts become individual scars and/or common ones.
I also wanted to recreate this ambivalence in the title “Bended bonds”:
– ‘bended’ refers to the bended, twisted relationship they developed,
– ‘bonds’ refers to the brotherhood and the fact that they were tied to some things before they met again … but finally freed themselves.
The combination of the two terms expresses the paradox of their relationship. One expression cancels and/or complements the other … Moreover, this ambiguity leaves an open end for the viewer.
This short film was shot from start to finish in 72 hours as part of the Kino Kabaret at the “Off-Courts” Trouville 2016 festival.
This story is a realistic private session with the necessary subtilety to address the complexity of a sister’s relationship with accuracy and sensitivity.
Project Title (Original Language):Deliees a s’en tordre
Film Type:Short, Television
Runtime:6 minutes
Completion Date:September 17, 2016
Country of Origin:Belgium
Country of Filming:France
Film Language:French
Shooting Format:Digital
Film Color:Color
Watch Audience FEEDBACK: ON SUNDAY, 6min, UK, Sci-Fi/Drama
Played at the June 2017 Sci-Fi FEEDBACK Film Festival in Los Angeles.
| ON SUNDAY, 6min, UK, Sci-Fi/Drama Directed by David Lea An old man and his dog make their routine walk to the isolated clifftops of deepest Cornwall…but this time they’re not alone. Project LinksNews & Reviews
Director Statement ON SUNDAY is a my paean to the science fiction films of my childhood. I wanted to create a simple film that told a story in its own time and captured the sense of wonder I feel is lost in many of the films released today. ‘ON SUNDAY’ took 5 years to complete – mainly because I did it ‘Gareth Edwards’ style taking on around 90% of the films production and post production myself and having to learn around 5 different CG packages from scratch in order to create the ship wreck which features in the film. This film is a thank you to my Dad, who actually features in the film. Way back in 1984 he hand built a cabin bed for my bedroom and underneath this, made from wood, flashing lights and copper piping he’d constructed a spaceship cockpit. I was 6 years old and via fuzzy VHS’s already indoctrinated in the ways of the force, last star fighters and Xenomorphs – my dad used to censor the scary bits by recording Sunday Cricket over them. The finished cabin bed was a fledgling geek’s dream come true. 31 years later I thought it was past time to repay the favour and build him his very own spaceship.     |
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