Blanche Fraise
A rabbit couple tries to survive in a dying forest.
Winners Choice: Lei Lei
65 minutes
The Grand Prix winners of the 2013 shorts competition were given carte blanche as curators for a programme with their own favourites. Jérémy Clapin (Frankrijk) has won the Grand Prix for narrative shorts for the strangely beautiful Palmipedarium. Lei Lei (China) has won the Grand Prix for non-narrative shorts together with Thomas Sauvin for Recycled. This poetic work now serves as a point of departure for an equally impressive installation. These winning films are also in the programme, in the jury programme.
This program screened as part of HAFF 2014
Showing in this program
Happy Life
At a stormy, rainy night, a boy named “EGG” lays an egg from which a monster is born. The boy, terrified, throws her into the forest. However this bizarre incident repeats every night, which leads EGG to feels like a monster himself, and his life gets more isolated...
Mahjong
In a Chinese style garret, four men were playing Mahjong. A woman stood aside in silence, holding a bottle of liquor.They all had hidden cravings of their own, unaware that they would be invariably led to the ultimate doom.
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Mutual Tunnels
Oh Willy…
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery. Entirely made from wool, felt and textile, Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels' short tells a story of life, death and rebirth with wobbly thighs, vomit, breastfeeding, space travel and bunny rabbits - all against the backdrop of a nudist colony. Oh Willy... reads as a surrealist story about loneliness, grief and a soft little guy tossed around by life. De Swaef & Roels create a universe where its inhabitants and building blocks are allowed their imperfections.
On the Water
The life story of an archetypical man on the water is a long trip in a rowing boat.
Undercurrents
"Undercurrents" is based on a series of interviews collected by Tobias Hülswitt. He asked different people to explain, how the world works and they came up with the broadest variety of answers. "Undercurrents" by Norman Morris was one of the first contributions.
