100m
To win a frantic 100m dash, five heroic sprinters transform themselves into savage beasts.
Competition European Student Films 5
65 minutes
The 67 films in the competition for European student films show craftsmanship and fireworks in a whole range of techniques and daring stories.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2014
Showing in this program
Agent of Chaos
Agent of Chaos intent is to lure the audience into a journey within the world of Chaos.
Creating something sensitive and conceptual, we raise our sense of belonging and identity to the human race.
Changing our point of view of the surrounding environment, we must identify our society as a living organism in which human beings interact equally despite their social class or behaviour.
Chaos theory studies the behaviour of dynamical systems that are extremely sensitive to initial conditions.
Chaos is unpredictable, unstable, disquiet, noise, dynamical, immeasurable and much more. Following these inspiring theories, random behaviour within our social organism is portrayed as a immense drawing apparently meaningless and disorganised.
Although chances and opportunity plays a big role within chaotic systems, nothing happens by accident.
It is rather a reflection of a biological order. Individuals are related to each other through persistent relations that can modify the surrounding environment in time and space.
As human beings we are part of this organism, we leave traces of our interaction changing the outcome of the present reality. Human beings define events and circumstances begetting action and reaction, therefore we are agents of chaos.
Among all of this, Love is likely to be the most chaotic feeling that can embody such a behaviour in our society. It is impulsive, instinctive, but rational at the same time, dynamic and constantly evolving.
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Animal
Industrial Boogie
The raw material is moves along the production line, while the machines process in their own musical rythim.
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Interview
A dimwitted young man is interviewing for most important job of all time and doesn’t even know what the job is.
Jack
While looking for a missing limb on a junkyard, Jack discovers that what he really misses is a friend.
Jonas
Jonas is confined inside a whale. He is trying to progressively find his way through this inner space.
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Kassa 9
Cashier Olga spends her days unnoticed in the supermarket. An insignificant incident upsets her daily rut. For a spell we get a glimpse of her private dreams.
Once Upon a Candle
A candle on a writer’s desk faces an existential crisis and tries to overcome it with the help of his new friends.
One Night in Florida
A rollicking one minute journey through President Obama's July 2013 speech, in which he addressed the outrage caused by the trial of George Zimmerman. Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed black teenager was acquitted of all charges.
Out of Bounds
Allan’s Asperger phobias and boundaries are challenged when he must brave the outdoors to save his only friend, a pet fish named Paul.
Wile E.
A girl and boy on separate sides of the world (NY & Amsterdam) both lead fantastical lives but are incapable of meeting. The film is loosely based on a Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner sketch where Wile E. paints a tunnel on a rock that the Roadrunner passes through.
It's made using my own technique of projecting onto paper and then cutting out portions of the film to illustrate the hyperreal mediums that skew our vision.
The characters exist in their own hyperreal worlds, oblivious to the fact that their surroundings are merely fictionalised. Yet they still doggedly try to meet, to break away from their 'painted tunnels'.
Wile E. serves as a deconstruction of hyperreal drama in a cinematic format. Numerous tropes of the cinematic language that usually goes unquestioned are identified and made as visible as possible whilst still retaining an engaging veneer.
The edges of the screen become observable, the screen floats within it’s own frame of reference. Music and image are separated from speech to distinguish which one does what. The music itself is cheaply manipulative and the 3 part basic structure of introduction, disagreement and conclusion is strikingly clear. Even the narrative itself is an absurdist exploitation of elementary filmmaking.
Yet even when everything is visually and aurally laid on a platter, the audience will fight to ignore something they cannot compute and will instead settle on engaging with the basic premise that it’s just a film.
