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EUROPE IN SHORTS VIII
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Wednesday 15th | 4.30pm | Kino Cinema
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Home Stories
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Matthias Müller German | 1990 | 6mins
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Home Stories is created out of found footage
with an original spirit. Scenes from Hollywood
melodramas are edited to make cinema goddesses
look like victims. Müller's heroines have many
destinies but only one role. They represent the
observed in a scope where looks can kill.
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Kugelkopf
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Mara Mattuschka Austria | 1987 | 6mins
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The impressive aspect in Kugelkopf is the violence
and the tenacious effort with which the head produces
text. After it is freed from its protective cover
of hair, signs bleed out of the wounds. The only
medium used for printing is the thick layer of
rough gauze bandages.
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New Book
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Nowa Ksiazka Zbigniew Rybczynski Poland | 1976
| 10mins
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The objective of this film is to show a trivial
episode in different ways and from different points
of view. The hero of the film goes into a bookshop;
at the same time this action is registered in
nine places. The film shows the complicated correlation
of simple, every-day events.
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Routemaster
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Ilppo Pohjola Finland | 2000 | 17mins
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Routemaster is a rhythmic mosaic about speed.
It is a montage of racing car speed, a merging
of the subject with the film material, and is
also about the use of human cadavers as crash-test
dummies. In the end, all that is left is the black-and-white
flash of speed, gyrating pulse of the mosaic,
the human bodies and the intense soundtrack.
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Holding The Viewer
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Tony Hill England | 1993 | 1min
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A cinematic roller-coaster ride at the hands
of a performer who is literally holding the viewer
on the end of a pole. Swoop above his head on
a rooftop, and then fall to his feet. Watch him
strain to lift you up and swing you round. Balance
precariously above as he hurries to get back before
the magic wears off.
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Hong Kong (HKG)
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Gerard Holthuis Netherlands | 1999 | 13mins
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In 1998 Kai Tak airport, in the middle of Hong
Kong, closed. Approaching Kai Tak was a unique
experience for passengers. 'One could read the
newspapers in the street', a passenger explained.
Hong Kong (HKG) is a film about the passing by
of aeroplanes in the middle of a city. It is an
observation of the end of the twentieth century.
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Work and Progress
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Vivian Ostrovsky, Yann Beauvais France | 1999
| 12mins
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After returning from a trip to Russia in 1990,
Ostrovsky and Beauvais decided to make a four-handed
film using their own Super-8 footage mixed with
archival material from the 1960s to the 1980s
and a sprinkling of Russian classics.
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Alone.Life Wastes Andy Hardy
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Martin Arnold Austria | 1998 | 15mins
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In Alone the crossing of three harmless teenage
movies gives birth to an Oedipal drama in which
not only mother love mutates to sheer lust. The
hidden message of sex and violence is turned inside
out to the point where it simply crackles.
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A key objective of the European Coordination
of Film Festivals is to develop and strengthen
cooperation between its members. One of the more
successful collaborations is the touring film
programmes which are available free of charge
to all member festivals. Europe in Shorts, a series
of short film packages established in 1996, has
toured many festivals in the European Union. This
year's programme, Europe in Shorts VIII, comprises
eight outstanding experimental short films from
seven European countries. The films span the last
twenty-five years and demonstrate a variety of
cinematic visions in their form and content. The
festivals, which participated in the selection
of this programme, chose short films with little
or no dialogue, to make the programme more accessible
to a larger European audience. With the support
of the European Commission, the non-commercial
rights of the films and two new prints could be
acquired. We hope you will enjoy this programme!
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