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INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
OBERHAUSEN: PROGRAMME 1
Best of German Competition 2003-2004
Thursday 14th | 11.30am | Kino Cinema
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
OBERHAUSEN: PROGRAMME 2
Best of International Competition 2003-2004
Friday 15th | 11.30am | Kino Cinema
   
I Saw It - Yo Lo Vi
Hanna Nordholt, Fritz Steingrobe

Germany | 2003 | 15mins | 35mm | Black & White | Subtitled
"I think of a person, a curious person, an amateur with no notion of the historical facts of the matter depicted on many of these pages ... nevertheless, for this reason, he would get a lively shock." Charles Baudelaire, 1857, referring to sketches and etchings by Goya.

 

Mein Erlöser
Thanassis Karanikolas

Germany | 2003 | 15mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled
A hurt and bloodless individual hides in a child's metaphorical body. It learns what it means to have power over another and over its own death, and it fights against the utopia of redemption through art. Which is more terrible, the presence or the absence of a punishing father?

 

Nome Road System
Rainer Komers

Germany | 2004 | 26mins | 35mm | Colour | No dialogue
It is late summer in Nome County, Alaska for gold-diggers, mushers, hunters and selected animals of the arctic tundra - a composition of images and sounds without dialogue or text.

Kalkheim
Tobias Kipp

Germany | 2002 | 10mins | 35mm | Colour | No dialogue

The film deals with those moments that you experience and forget again within a minute. Five passionless moments in a common suburb called Kalkheim. Five short tales about chalk-headed beings...

 

Q
Oliver Husain

Germany | 2002 | 16mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled
Real people queue up for adventure in a computer-generated entertainment zone.

L'Axe Du Mal
Pascal Lièvre

France/Canada | 2003 | 6mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

Two actors are filmed in front of the clichéd honeymoon destination, Niagara Falls. There, they declare their love for one another with the same words President Bush used to declare war on terrorism.

 

Amy
Mike Hoolboom

Canada | 2003 | 16mins | Beta | Colour
I had a dream that I turned on the TV and everyone was me: Amy looks at pictures of herself and reflects our own fears in what she sees.

 

The Interview
Ross Lipman

USA | 2003 | 32mins | 35mm | Colour and Black & White

Helen, an unemployed single mother, is at home preparing for an important job interview the following day when a strange visitor arrives unannounced at her door ...

 

Magnetic North
Miranda Pennell

England | 2003 | 9mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled

Adolescent rituals are played out across the wintry landscapes of Northern Finland. A teenage girl skates on a frozen lake, while a teenage boy poses with a guitar in his room; this Magnetic Northern landscape evokes an enigmatic world of adolescent fantasy and yearning.

 

Filter City
Knut Asdam


Switzerland | 2003 | 21mins | Beta | Colour

The film primarily focuses on two female protagonists and their relationship with each other, with a larger social group and with a city that is both an agent and an object of change itself.
 
 
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