About Time
Home should be like a shelter, but if there is no family members inside,
people still feel lonely and afraid.
Competition Student Films 3
60 minutes
The 69 films in the competition for student films show craftsmanship and fireworks in a whole range of techniques and daring stories.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2017
Showing in this program
AM/FM
Two characters life stories are presented across a radio timeline on the AM and FM frequencies. Their lives are depicted from birth to death together and apart. As time passes the dial moves freely from left to right and right to left across the timeline to different narrative moments. The characters stories are told in a non-linear way and correspond to objects from an old suitcase that features within the film. As each object from the suitcase is revealed a section of the characters story is presented on screen.
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Aport
Funny story about three dogs who play ball. Aport!
At the Mouth of Summer
The beach is packed in a Chinese resort. People are enjoying the summer holidays. An abrupt thundershower makes them run around in a flurry.
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Corner
Life is difficult in the corner, in the angle where two edges meet.
Everything is geometrically relative when laws of perspective and gravity start playing tricks on you.
Eternal flame
In the darkness, the only light source is the flame of match which it’s given from others. The flame is given and is also put out from others. In the repetition, the man decides.
Hamlet. Comedy
Children with their strict teacher came to the theater, where was a play “Hamlet” performed. Children are bored and start laugh and vandalize…
Lemon Tree
Limoeiro - Lemon tree - is a film about a fictional character whose body is assembled from memories embedded in an abandoned space.
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LEMONS
A fragmentary short about the struggles we go trough after a heartbreak. Life goes on.
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The elaboration of the director: I used stop-motion animation as technique of expression to explain my confusion and the situation. In real space, I used the finished product to cast a small field, which seems to be magnified in the image. People of different contexts will get a same feeling after watching the work and they will put their own situation into the interpretation of the work. To create is to know oneself and the world. This piece of work is an “image poem” left for myself, trying to tell myself not to stick to an acre of land and be bounded by a self-centered strong gravitational and magnetic field. It is the first alarm bell of my future life, as the poem composed by Knecht in Hesse’s novel Das Glasperlenspiel--- “Each beginning contains magic power, which will protect us and help us to survive. We happily pass through one after another spaces. We will never confine to a certain provincialism. The spirit of the universe makes us free from restraint and it inspires us to climb up and move forward.”
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Look at Me Only
Having forgotten exciting feelings of the early days of the relationship, the man drifts along petting his guinea pig. One day he meets a beauty of flower who appreciates the pet.
Perfect Town
In the middle of the white desert a place of perfection is to be found: Perfect Town. Citizen with deficient behavior will be removed. A long steep stairwell is the only way back to town. Nevertheless the castaways always return because every single moment experienced in Perfect Town is a priviledge and an award to the ones who prove themselves to be adequate.
The Wrong End of the Stick
Malcolm Fetcher is a neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage with his wife of twenty years, Beverly. As he faces an all-consuming identity crisis, their marriage disintegrates and he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire...
