Competition Shorts 1

75 minutes
Competition Shorts 1

A royal collection of 53 films from all parts of the world and a great range of narrative and as much as 20 non-narrative films.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2017

Showing in this program

Departures

Departures

  • Jeanette Bonds
  • United States / Panama, 2016
  • 3 min.
Estate

Estate

  • Ronny Trocker
  • France / Belgium, 2016
  • 7 min.
Just Add Water

Just Add Water

  • Penny Lane
  • United States, 2016
  • 16 min.
Lindy Hop

Lindy Hop

  • Stuart Pound
  • United Kingdom, 2016
  • 11 min.

Original footage was taken from the internet, reprocessed into vertical stripes with three frame blocks of positive black & white alternating with high contrast negative. These dance spotlights were part of the International Lindy Hop Competition held in Washington, D.C in 2013. The sound is edited from separate sources, two cameras, one facing the band and one to the side.

Oasis

Oasis

  • Gints Zilbalodis
  • Latvia, 2016
  • 17 min.

A boy is afraid to leave his oasis because of the dark spirit waiting for him outside.

Satie’s “Parade”

Satie’s “Parade”

  • Koji Yamamura
  • Japan, 2016
  • 14 min.

A Parade for 3 managers & 4 performers. Mixing quotes from French composer Erik Satie’s essays with the music Parade, this is an animated re-creation of realist ballet images going beyond reality.

Strange Fish

Strange Fish

  • Steven Subotnick
  • United States, 2017
  • 3 min.

the blindness of evolution