GUFF SHORTS SESSION 2
Drama | 1h 23m
GUFF21 Official Selection | 1x World Premiere 5x Australian Premiere
Screening from 9-17 July 2021
This is a collection of experimental and animation films.
CANNING TOWN
Directors: Will Dickie, Fabiola Santana | 10m 27s | Experimental | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: UK | Language: English
Canning Town is a dance film shot beneath its street lights, capturing desolate cityscapes that will soon no longer be there. House prices continue to rise and the redevelopers of East London are steadily encroaching from all sides.
THE BEARERS OF MEMORIES
Director: Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė | 13m 17s | Experimental | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: Lithuania | Language: No Dialogue
With every moment - one more memory. But memory sometimes goes blind and what is left becomes hazy.
EMPTINESS
Director: Eduardo Gallardo | 9m 13s | Experimental | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: Mexico | Language: No Dialogue
Suffer, Madness, Illness, Love, Hate. What are we really made of?
Surrounded by the dark, A man experiences visions about the inside and outside of his being as he removes him his "liar faces" which lead him into an introspective struggle that will reveal the true nature of his existence.
NOX
Director: Mireille Heidbreder | 8m 12s | World Premiere | Animation | 2020
Country: USA | Language: English
NOX is a sensory experimental film in which I use a combination of archival and own film prints and digital footage to “re-imagine” moments in which a shift in the balance of the human/natural world has occurred. In it, a lone hill above a town is revealed to be an active volcano, a destructive tornado seemingly intentionally repeats its path through a neighborhood, and a hurricane forces its way over a mountain. A layered soundscape of my own creation stands as an individual “character”.
IAM
Director: Chiara De Maria | 4m | Australian Premiere | Experimental | 2020
Country: Italy | Language: No Dialogue
The ego of the human being who in order to be born again crosses his own shadows and integrates them with the person. The shell appears as an oneiric vision, as a sign. Through this symbolic path the man sense his own essence.
OUR SUNKEN WORLDS - CHRONICLES OF A PRESENT TIME
Director: Hervé Penhoat | 8m 12s | World Premiere | Documentary, Experimental | 2021
Country: France | Language: French
Our submerged worlds, chronicle of a present time, refers to those myths, tales and past legends that can be found in many cultures around the world. This series, so much to tell our life in this world become uncertain, in perpetual evolution. Thinking that the timelessness of thought, of art, can allow us to take another look at what surrounds us, it is another form of vision of society that is proposed, based on events outstanding.
LUMEN
Director: Gauthier Humber | 4m 53s | World Premiere | Animation | 2021
Country: France | Language: No Dialogue
At the end of the tunnel or beyond the corridor, the promise of light project our shadows and rekindles our hopes. This is what this man tells us: stuck in a black page of his life that brings him to nothing, he desperately seeks the ray of light that will rekindle his flame.
HAGIOSCOPE
Director: Mox Mäkelä | 10m 40s | Australian Premiere | Experimental | 2021
Country: Finland | Language: English
Hagioscope short film is the film of the virus era. It is some kind of waiting room film for the Long Audio Play Movie And just. The film looks at the human world through a hagioscope.