Sunscreen Film Festival West 2014 Official Selections
Experimental/Music Video Shorts Block
"Alone" (dir. Giacomo Raffaelli) -- One day, a guy wakes up and doesn't find someone in Rome. The city is empty and he's the only citizen of the world. An experimental film between dream and reality.
"Matin Lunaire" ("Moony Morning") (dir. Clément Oberto) -- Matin Lunaire (moony morning) is a suspended moment, the paradox of a moon still in the sky during day time. The piece describes a mysterious universe lost between dreams and reality. An epic poem, constantly transforming, in which colors, beauty and sweetness come together.
"Desert Haiku" (dir. Marie-Michele & Jasmin-Belisle) -- "Desert Haiku" is a short film-poem on the soulful deserts of the American Southwest. It explores the memory of the land through the thread of the creation of life, and the days of water where messengers, dancers, children and sea creatures cross paths in these ancient landscapes.
"Leo Kinsky - La Caresse" (dir. Matthias Neumayer) -- The short and simple plot depicts these extremes and takes the audience on a journey of love, longing and desperation.
"Too Many Nights @ Nuyorican" (dir. Kent Evans) -- Music video to the song from the Soundtrack to the novel "A Crash Course on the Anatomy of Robots" by Kent Evans. A spoken-word self reflective critique of the slam poetry scene, with surreal imagery.
"The Ramona Flowers Tokyo" (dir. Bouha Kazmi) -- A mysterious masked stranger and a boy form the centrepiece of a gathering of elderly society women who yearn for their youth and the exquisite command of their lure.
"Unity" (dir. Tobias Stretch) -- An animated choral work by Avant-Garde composer Christopher Bono and acclaimed animator Tobias Stretch is an epic journey through time, spirit and mind. Surreal Time-lapse worlds and intense life-size Stop-Motion animated characters converge to tell the story of a wandering being's transcendence to an otherworldly dimension beyond.
"The Archer" (dir. Terrence Magee) -- Tired of being controlled by her mother but feeling conflicted over leaving her sisters, a young woman decides to leave her family and forge her own path. Her mother tries to stop her, firing guilt-laden reminders of the past. The woman continues on, but will she carry these barbs with her or leave them behind?
"Na Mila - I Seek But Cannot Find" (dir. Manish Raghunath)