A royal collection of 51 films from all parts of the world and a great range of narrative and as much as 16 non-narrative films.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2014

Showing in this program

Gloria Victoria 3D

• Théodore Ushev
• Canada, 2013
• 6 min.

Gloria Victoria unfolds on the still-smouldering rubble of a furious 20th century, propelled by the exalting “invasion” theme from Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony (No. 7). Resembling a military march with bolero overtones, the music sweeps over imagery of combat fronts and massacres, leading us from Dresden to Guernica, from the Spanish Civil War to star wars. It is at once a symphony that serves the war machine, that stirs the masses, and art that mourns the dead, voices its outrage and calls for peace.

Gloria Victoria is the third film in a trilogy on the relationship between art and power. It is the work of an exceptionally gifted filmmaker and multi-faceted artist, a virtuoso of collage and recycling who conjures up everything from surrealism to Dracula, and makes cubist constructions emerge from the horror of dismembered bodies. Through a multitude of quotations, allusions and references, Theodore Ushev orchestrates a thundering nightmare in the name of peace.
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Jorka

• Michiel Wesselius
• The Netherlands, 2013
• 8 min.

Everybody once had thoughts about their own death and what it will cause to our loved ones. Jorka portrays theaftermath of the process of loss. After a tragic accident of the protagonist, we see the departed coping with his demise.The stories of the mourners are connected by telephone calls going through the ether. Each individual deals with the lossin their own way. What one says can be very different from one's actual thoughts...

Rainy Days

• Vladimir Leschiov
• Canada / Latvia, 2014
• 7 min.

An elderly Japanese man visits a strange island, where he disappears in his own memories.

Scarred Skies

• Vera Neubauer
• United Kingdom, 2014
• 3 min.

Scarred Skies documents industrial pollution, that despite the harm it causes, creates visual delight, and by association awakens a sense of desire and off loss in the bystander, who cares
to look up.

Seams and Embers

• Claire Lamond
• United Kingdom, 2012
• 6 min.

Young Jim follows his coal mining forefathers into a rough working life underground, while diehard miners tell of how a rugged industry died hard.
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Subconscious Password 3D

• Chris Landreth
• Canada, 2013
• 10 min.

In the middle of a crowded bar, Charles is feeling increasingly desperate. The cause of his misery is his old friend... you know... what’s-his-name...
Directed by Chris Landreth, the filmmaker behind the Oscar®-winning short Ryan, Subconscious Password uses a common social gaffe—forgetting somebody’s name—as the starting point for a mind-bending romp through the unconscious. Inspired by the classic AmericanTV game show Password, the film features a wealth of animated celebrity guests who try (and try, and try) to prompt Charles to remember the name. Finally, he realizes he will simply have to surrender himself to his predicament.
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The Maggot Feeder

• Priit Tender
• Estonia, 2012
• 15 min.

A man decides to kill his wife because she can't have children. He builds a stone house on the seashore and starts to grow maggots in it. When the maggots are as thick as a wrist, he invites his wife for a walk on the beach...
The Maggot Feeder is an ancient Chukchi folk tale. It takes us on a journey to the darkest alleys of the human mind.

The Race

• Jacques Khouri
• United States / Canada, 2013
• 2 min.

Produced with a graphic flare and text, this piece is the classic tale of the tortoise and the Hare with a key difference; the Hare has four legs while the tortoise has none.
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this is another place where you can get a digital viewing copy:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fuj6rt2b0a12d6l/theRace_H264_1080.mov
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The Tiniest

• Tomislav Soban
• Croatia, 2014
• 16 min.

He lived across, just like this, across the street. He entered his house when we were all going home. The store was closing. In the summertime, it's at 9 PM. That's the last time I saw him.