International Short Block #2 - 12:00pm-1:30pm - Muvico Sundial
"Emperor of Nowhere" (3 min.; directed by Gotti Sigurdarson)
The video for Emperor Of Nowhere is powerful and eye-catching. Directed by Icelandic artist and director Gotti Sigurdarson, Norwegian artist Kate Havnevik’s long-term collaborator. Emperor Of Nowhere treads a dark path and is a beautifully sinister track with a matching video to go with it. Using uv-lights, uv-bodypaint and stop animation technique the singer morphs into different looks, and in the end she melts into the background as a part of an overgrown sinister tree. Emperor Of Nowhere and its inhabitant is engaging in an eerie way. “You're the emperor of nowhere and no one gets out alive from here”
"Weeping Willow" (4 min.; directed by Ethem Onur Bilgiç)
There was a man; who fought through his entire life. He rode from one attack to another, marched on his horse. He was a brave soldier, fought with his pride. But maybe, it was time to watch the soldiers going along the setting sun under the shade of Weeping Willow.
"Keeper of the Past" (28 min.; directed by Marco J. Riedl)
Farmer Finn van Hagen begins a New Life and moves with his wife and his two children out to the country. He now lives on an old, idyllic farm...in the middle of nowhere...to his eyes, in a Perfect World.
"The Lost Mariner" (5 min.; directed by Tess Martin)
The Lost Mariner is an animated interpretation of Dr. Oliver Sacks’ case study found in his book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. It uses photographs to visualize the rare memory condition of patient Jimmie G.
"Level Istenhez (Letter to God)" (30 min.; directed by Tamas Yvan Topolanszky)
Aladár the young farmer lives in deep poverty with his wife and children on a farm far from the village. The driest summer of their lives endangers everything he has built for his family.
"Sugar Free" (5 min.; directed by Bridget Farmer)
Caught pouring sugar in his coffee, Ben is asked to leave the cafe, and relegated to drink his sugary coffee in the park with other 'over eaters'. Sugar Free holds a mirror up to Australia today and takes a light hearted view of where societal pressure could lead us. In a few years time, will being over weight and eating sugar be as unacceptable as smoking in society?
"Abgehauen (Runaway)" (27 min.; directed by Annette Assmy)
Two girls are fighting for a self-determined life.