9:00
Registration
Clarion Hotel

9:30
Welcome
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

10:00
Opening Keynote
Jonathan Rosenbaum

10:45
Coffee Break

11.15
3 Minute Cinema You Can
Dance To
Christian Höller
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

12:00 - 1:00
Defining the Short Film
Gerald Weber
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

13:00
Lunch

14:00
The Problem of Distribution for Short Film Agencies
Chair: Toril Simonsen, Norwegian Film Institute.
Board Room Permanent TSB

14:00
The Festival as a Collective Rite and as a Cultural Exchange
Sonia Trampetti
Conference Room 1

14:00
The Short Films of Eric Rohmer.
David Heinemann
Conference Room 3

15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Creating a Canon
Chair: Mick Hannigan
Cork Film Festival
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

20.00
Evening Entertainment
Details-TBA

9:30
The Death of the Short
Rod Stoneman
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

10:15
The Future of the Short
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

11:45
Coffee Break

12:00
Aesthetic Changes in Short Film: The Work on the Image
Angela Haardt
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

13:00
Lunch

14:00
Internationl Short Film Conference
Chair: Bronwyn Kidd
Flickerfest, Australia
Harbours Commissioners Board Room

14:00
The Art of Reduction: Dramaturgy of the
Short Film
Matthias Brütsch
Conference Room 1 & 2

15:30
Delegates travel to Midleton

16:30
John Smith Interview

17:30
Jamesons Tour

19:00
Dinner at Jamesons followed by Irish music and whiskey tasting!

23:00
Bus home

9:30
Creating Conditions for Great Short Filmmaking
Chair: Meabh O'Donovan, Short Circuit Films.
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

11:15
Coffee

11:30
Closing Lecture
Richard Raskin
Conference Rooms 1 & 2

13:00
Lunch

14:00
Round Table Discussion
The ECFF and the European Short Film
Chair: Robin Mallick
Filmfest Dresden
Harbours Commissioners Board Room

14:00 -15:00
The Short film as a site of Play and Experimentation
Eileen Elsey
Conference Room 1

15:00
Ambiguity, abstraction and the personal- A recipe for great (short) filmmaking
Mark Cosgrove
Conference Room 3

16:00
Closing Address
Council Chambers City Hall

20:30
Closing celebration:
FILM IST
live performance

11:30am
Irish Shortfilm Showcase
Kino Cinema