The mysteries of milles-feuilles and the pleasures of pastry dolloped with whipped cream shall not come between us, nor shall custard tarts tear us apart. No, we will savour them together. Drizzled in chocolate sauce and jam-filled for eternity, we are brothers of a sweeter tooth.
Filter Films
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A little sunflower seeks the light but is battered by the elements. Will anyone come to the rescue?
Sunflower
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What happens when a filmmaker loses his sight? “Evanesce” is a collage of fading Super 8 footage shot during the past decade. Phelan confronts the possibility of never seeing again and tries to make sense of the memories trapped in pictures that are disappearing before his very eyes. Selected screenings: Retour d’images Paris, France, 2003; London Disability Arts Film Festival, London, England, 2003
Evanesce
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A fascinating industrial documentary about an automated chicken-growing operation that produces 156 million chickens a year. It carries Les Blank’s inimitable humour with tongue-in-cheek narration and surreal imagery.
Chicken Real
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E.K.G. EXPOSITUS incorporates three of Brynntrup’s short films: Aide Mémoire – Gay Document for Remembering (16:00 min. 1995); Heart.Instant/iation II (Self-generating Manipulations) (7:15 min. 1996); Loverfilm – An Uncontrolled Dispersion of Information (21:30 min. 1996); as well as Kein Film / No Film (1:20 min. 2000) Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that tells itself – and a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media. In German with English sub-titles.
E.K.G. EXPOSITUS (the broadcast and the artistic media)
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Immanuel Kant Hospital in Neukölln, Berlin. Midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the spot. The beginning of a story that tells itself – and a self-portrait in broadcast and artistic media. In German with English sub-titles. Selected screenings: Filmfest Dresden, Germany, 2003; KurzFilmFestival Hamburg, Germany, 2003; International Short Film Festival Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2003; Cork Film Festival, Ireland, 2003; Split Festival of New Media, Croatia, 2003
E.K.G.1.0.1
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“This film was made on 35mm whereby Stan scratched off the emulsion of the film using his fingernail. The original was step-printed by Mary Beth Reed. This film is available is both 16mm and 35mm and is in black and white.”-Dominic Angerame Scratching on spit-softened emulsion “with bare fingernails,” Stan completed this work — all that he could manage of his long dreamed-of “Chinese Series” — in his bed, a couple of months before his death. Printed by Courtney Hoskins, who has written that: “On the negative, it seemed to have the essence of Chinese characters — “strokes” and blocks, etc. In motion, it seems almost like running through a humid bamboo forest . . . green and yellow stalks create these glowing shadows as they cut across the sunlight.”
Chinese Series
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“Shooting Star” is a film about mortality, a moving x-ray of small and grand gestures alike. “A lovely, enigmatic tribute to Canadian hockey legend Rocket Richard. Jason Britski manipulates images to… create a short that feels like a visual poem.” – Eye Weekly, Toronto, 2003 Selected screenings: Dawson City International Short Film Festival, 2003; Huesca International Film Festival, Spain, 2003; Toronto International Film Festival, Canada, 2003; Split International Film Festival, Croatia, 2003
Shooting Star
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“Transfixed” is a meditative film that celebrates the beauty found within the small details of existence. “‘Transfixed’ evokes the boundless joy of the vicarious unlimited experience of childhood, while at the same time reminding us of life’s accelerated velocity and transitory nature.” – Antimatter Underground Film Festival, 2002 Selected screenings: Honorable Mention, Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2003; Reykjavik Short Film Festival, Iceland, 2002; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2002; Yorkton Short Film Festival, Yorkton, SK, 2003
Transfixed
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“You would make a good lawyer” is a film about employment, and the cages we all inhabit. The title is taken from a fortune that I kept receiving from fortune cookies, which seemed to capture the irony of my predicament perfectly. (JB) Selected screenings: Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, Portugal, 2000; Telluride International Experimental Expo, USA, 2000; Award for Best Experimental, Saskatchewan Showcase, Canada, 2000; Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, BC, 2000
You would make a good lawyer
