Competition Shorts 5
75 minutes
For the international competition shorts 53 films have been selected, with no less than 25 non-narrative productions.
This program screened as part of Haff 2016
Showing in this program
Blind Vaysha
Books on books
The cutout patterns are from my father’s book ”Book cover collection in the West“, which was published in 1988, when China's leaders launched their great Reform and Opening-up to embrace the world.
Many leading concepts of book cover design were introduced in the book
and this book had an eye-opening influence on the younger generation of Chinese designers since then.
Driven by the idea of “revisi
Moon Blink
Exclusively generated by code, moon blink is a video that highlights the unique aesthetic decisionism of its narrative model. Initially, it is the motion that is irritating. Although the undulating, disordered sequences of lines stabilize into strictly regulated, ascending patterns of movement in the form of thick white lines (and their shadows, comparable to Opus IV by Walter Ruttmann), the increasing acceleration divests the gaze of its certainty and ability to differentiate. It wobbles, like the black and white lines that resume their wave-like, and above all, out of focus appearance. This blurriness is apparently a prerequisite for an entirely new quality introduced by the grey mix rendered through rapidly moving lines. A kind of Situationspotential (Francois Jullien) is created in this phase, made possible by the operations of a self-renewing image situation, which creates new and unexpected potential – for example of colors and color values. The situation subsequently changes continuously, the geometry bends and becomes physical. The code seems to undermine its own parameters, permitting the emergence of an energy field that is no longer subject to mathematics but to physics. In a certain sense it disappears behind its statements. The work “quotes” the external world of early experimental film – the samples illustrated on the table ¬similar to the inner world of physical appearances – apparitions of color, fields of energy, light and sound noise. Then again and in other words, what we see is first and foremost the unfolding of mathematical driving forces conforming to patterns similar to natural logic. Kohlberger’s algorithmically generated and dynamic world loves demonstrating its infinite potential for mutation by way of graphically visual and acoustic excess, sensuous overspending and mental noise, just as much as it enjoys illustrating its aesthetic calculus and veiled order.
(Marc Ries)
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Mr Sand
One Minute Art History
This film is made by many pictures from the art history ,and I painted them one by one frame,to build one minute art history. The specific image of each genius exhausted their life, is just a fleeting images in the film. The entire film is about waiting, waiting is absurd, as art,a kind of eternal behavior with no purpose, no endding.
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Peripheria
A journey into the heart of a large and abandoned council estate. Peripheria portrays an urban environment becoming wild: a modern Pompeii where the wind blows and dogs roam, tailing the remains of human life.
Round Trip: Mary
In a small village a young cowgirl is rounding up her cattle and preparing herself for a trip to the town. On her way there she meets different people in different sceneries. In the town she is attracted by the cinema building and the film posters. The girl enters the cinema for the first time…
Ticking Away
Very Lonely Cock
It was a hard day for the very lonely cock. Perhaps tomorrow it’ll be better.
