Competition Shorts 4

70 minutes
Competition Shorts 4

A royal collection of 57 films from all parts of the world and a great range of narrative and non-narrative films. A notable lot of brand new films by renowned filmmakers but also exciting new talents.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2013

Showing in this program

Edison Bay

Edison Bay

  • Michiel van Bakel
  • The Netherlands, 2013
  • 3 min.

The passing of time in the Port of Rotterdam. Experimental film, animated from
25 angles with the aid of several cameras.
A view from Rotterdam’s Edison Bay on Yangtze Harbour, where Ultra Large
Container Carriers from China are unloaded. A mingling of two more-or-less
different realities: a floating human figure and an industrial horizon.

Edmond Was a Donkey

Edmond Was a Donkey

  • Franck Dion
  • France / Canada, 2012
  • 15 min.

When his co-workers tease him by crowning him with a pair of donkey ears, Edmond suddenly discovers his true nature.

Heart of Winter

Heart of Winter

  • Isabelle Favez
  • Switzerland, 2012
  • 7 min.

As the seasons change, so too do the fortunes of the forest creatures...
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Here and the Great Elsewhere

Here and the Great Elsewhere

  • Michèle Lemieux
  • Canada, 2012
  • 14 min.

Lost in a reverie, a man reels with sudden, piercing awareness of his own state of being. Bounded by a walled enclosure, he searches in vain for the key to the great beyond. Here and the Great Elsewhere is an abstract yet compelling philosophical tale that uses the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen as a metaphor for the particles that make up the universe.
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Patrick

Patrick

  • Vera Neubauer
  • United Kingdom, 2012
  • 3 min.

An adolescent is given advice on how to live by the Chancellor of Exchequer Geoerge Osborne.
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Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto

  • Johan Oettinger
  • Denmark, 2012
  • 7 min.
The Rage

The Rage

  • Audrey Coïaniz / Saul Saguatti
  • Italy, 2012
  • 4 min.
Triptyc 2

Triptyc 2

  • Pierre Hébert
  • Canada, 2012
  • 10 min.

Three screens remix of an improvisation performance presented in May 2011 with musician Andrea Martignoni at the Stadtkirche in Vienna. Live animation processed digitally and live scratched animation, reworked in studio with animation overlays.
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Under the Lion Crotch

Under the Lion Crotch

  • Ping Wong
  • Hong Kong, 2012
  • 4 min.

The situation living in Hong Kong, China nowadays.
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Woman Who Hates Plants

Woman Who Hates Plants

  • Morgan Miller
  • United States, 2013

She does enjoy smoking cigarettes.