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Hybridisation Of Images
Over the last few years a considerable amount of film festivals have converted to the digital format, regardless of the genres and lengths of the films they programme. While some, of course, are merely incorporating new projection media into their programming sections; there are also many festivals devoting a significant part of their programmes to this new cinema, either in special sections or even in competitive programmes.
Several years ago many of the works presented in this programme could only have been produced with considerable budgets and therefore with commercial implications or with the aim of displaying the technology technique itself. The main difference nowadays is to be found in the increasingly easier (and cheaper) access to digital technology and its widespread use in the production and manipulation of images.
The democratisation of the access to new technologies has allowed for the emergence of more experimental and personal films, made according to their authors desires and without the need for a huge production team.
This is why short film has been, given its characteristics, one of the most innovative visual experimentation fields of today, precisely because it’s a favourable territory for developing more personal work and for unravelling some of the most passionate creative challenges.
The films which will be presented in this session can only try to offer some clues about what the cinema of the future could be. The combinations of techniques, formats and genres – whose real effects are yet to be determined – are the possibilities to consider, being that same ‘hybridisation’ referred to in title of this programme.
Miguel Dias (Curtas Vila do Conde) |
Obras
Hendrick Dusollier
France | 2004 | 12mins
A poetic and graphic journey through wild and irreversible urban mutation, which offers a plastic interpretation of the destruction and reconstruction, taking place in Barrio Ribera and Diagonal Mar, in Barcelona. |
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Fear Less
Therese Jacobsen
Norway | 2003 | 5mins
Childhood is not necessarily as rosy as grown-ups often imagine it. It can be full of worries and anxiety. |
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The Tale of the Floating World
Le Conte Du Monde Flottant
Alain Escalle
France | 2001 | 24mins
Hiroshima. On the morning of 6 August 1945, a blinding light invades the shores of the floating world. A man remembers the shock; bodies strewn out in pain. Past dreams in the present, visions of the future in the past. |
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Oh Dear!
Nicolas Provost
Belgium | 2004 | 1min
A simple yet moving story set against the backdrop of an innocent go-kart track. |
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Outer Space
Peter Tscherkassky
Austria | 1999 | 10mins
A premonition of a horror film. A house at night, eerily lit surfaces from the pitchblack, then sinks back into it again. A young woman begins to move slowly towards the building. |
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Home Road Movies
Robert Bradbrook
England | 2001 | 12mins
The real-life story of a shy and awkward father who desperately wanted the family car to make him a better parent; taking his family on the motoring holiday of a lifetime. |
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Dad’s Dead
Chris Shepherd
United Kingdom | 2003 | 6mins
A young man talks about the fragmented memories of his childhood. His admiration and worship for his best friend Johnno turns to hatred and revulsion as the web of deception Johnno created is revealed. |
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The Rise and Fall of the Legendary) Anglobilly Feverson
Rosto
Holland | 2002 | 10mins
Méliès meets Kerouac in a surrealistic, cryptic road movie through the clouds. The legendary Anglobilly Feverson once flew off to leave his cursed life behind and check the other side. He had to deal with the residents of the sky before he got there. |
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Fast Film
Virgil Widrich
Austria, Luxembourg | 2003 | 14mins
A happy couple. Then suddenly the woman is kidnapped. The man sets off to save her... |
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