Winner’s Choice: Hirotoshi Iwasaki

80 minutes
Winner’s Choice: Hirotoshi Iwasaki

The Grand Prix winners of the 2015 shorts competition were given carte blanche as curators for HAFF. Priit Tender (Estonia) won the Grand Prix for narrative films with House of Unconciousness. Hirotoshi Iwasaki (Japan) won the Grand Prix for non-narrative films with Dark Mixer.

This program screened as part of Haff 2016

Showing in this program

Frank Film

Frank Film

  • Caroline Mouris / Frank Mouris
  • United States, 1973
  • 10 min.
Grim

Grim

  • Takashi Ito
  • Japan, 1985
  • 7 min.
Jumping Joan

Jumping Joan

  • Petra Freeman
  • United Kingdom, 1994
  • 7 min.

Dark resonance of a nursery rhyme probes isolation and imagination.

Meshes of the Afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon

  • Maya Deren / Alexander Hammid
  • United States, 1943
  • 14 min.
Realms Pin

Realms Pin

  • Sebastian Buerkner
  • United Kingdom, 2008
  • 5 min.
Revolver

Revolver

  • Jonas Odell / Stig Bergqvist / Lars Ohlson / Martti Ekstrand
  • Sweden, 1993
  • 7 min.

A short history of the passing of time.

Ride to the Abyss

Ride to the Abyss

  • Georges Schwizgebel
  • Switzerland, 1992
  • 4 min.

The rhythm of galloping horses to La damnation de Faust.

The Labyrinth

The Labyrinth

  • Mathieu Labaye
  • Belgium, 2013
  • 9 min.

6 m² for living…

The Mill

The Mill

  • Petra Freeman
  • United Kingdom, 1992
  • 7 min.
When the Day Breaks

When the Day Breaks

  • Wendy Tilby / Amanda Forbis
  • Canada, 1999
  • 9 min.

A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast and discovers she needs more milk. Their paths cross, a lemon falls into the sewer, and both lives are changed. With deft humour and finely rendered detail, When the Day Breaks illuminates the links that connect our urban lives, while evoking the promise and fragility of a new day.