GUFF SHORTS SESSION 4
Drama | 1h 25m
GUFF21 Official Selection | 9x Australian Premiere
Screening from 9-17 July 2021
This is a collection of music videos and animation.
PEAK
Director: Ella Chau | 3m 38s | Music Video | 2020
Country: Australia | Language: English
A journey through an urban fantasy land created for the track ‘PEAK’ from French Concession. The clip reflects isolation and an introspective view from the artist, and was produced in the early days of Covid lockdown 2020.
SUPERSONICS CARAVAN PALACE
Director: Béchir "Jiwee" Jouini | 3m | Australia Premiere | Music Video | 2020
Country: France | Language: English
What if the walls could talk? In the new clip for CARAVAN PALACE, a city comes alive to the rhythm of graffiti. Caught up in this new animated world, our protagonist will then find himself plastered on the wall as a black and white poster (in the manner of JR).
GENEVA JACUZZI’S CASKET
Director: Chris Friend | 6m 6s | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2021
Country: USA | Language: English
The Pleasure-U BioDrone, her only assistant, has contracted an undiagnosed mental-disease. Kate Shaw is forced to amputate its head and keep the body alive in the Pleasure Center Casket, normally reserved for paying, near deceased clients. The BioDrone’s head, inside a reprogramming bag, continuously calls to Kate’s brain with strange visions.
SOU A TIGRESA
Director: Jairo Neto | 3m 42s | Australian Premiere | Music Video | 2020
Country: Brazil | Language: France, Portugal
Based on a collage of memories and recollections of a not so distant past, this animated music video for the Brazilian musician Caetano Malta combines the surrealistic animation aesthetic with the remotely shot images from the singers.
SAMEOLD
Director: Dair Biroli | 5m 30s | Australian Premiere | Animation | 2021
Country: Netherlands | Language: No Dialogue
SameOld is an Animated short film about our connections with technology and brands. The story follows a day of a guy and his caregiver robots in an absurd reality.
HOW
Director: Vasilios Papaioannu | 6m 6s | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: USA | Language: English
Music video for Leo Crandall's "How" included in the album "Unknowable and Stunning Thing". Shot in 16mm and Super 8 film.
ARISE, SHINE
Directors: Kim Collmer | 2m 53s | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2021
Country: Germany | Language: No Dialogue
Water, light and land swoon together to the slow rhythm of Jeff McGrory's soundscape. A simple, dreamy summer film evoking the soft feelings of a warm day.
GONG BATU
Directors: Shouichi Iwamoto | 46m 16s | Music Video | Australian Premiere | 2020
Country: Japan | Language: No Dialogue
Listening to the sound of the place and responding to it The project "Place and Sound" by Shoichi Iwamoto who practices this simple theme.
CIRCLES
Director: Ricardo Praga | 3m | Australian Premiere | Experimental | 2020
Country: Portugal | Language: No Dialogue
The dream-like trance the images holds are somewhat held up by the use of the iconic Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy which glues the disparate, almost hallucinogenic, scenes together.
AILIN ON THE MOON
Director: Claudia Ruiz | 5m | Australian Premiere | Animation | 2018
Country: Argentina | Language: Spanish
Work, do the shopping, cooking, cleaning, ironing, taking care of Ailín: that is the routine of Vilma, mother of 40 years, overwhelmed by fatigue and skin intolerance. Ailín (4), just looking to play and demand the attention of a restless girl, one day causes the emotional outbreak of the mother. The routine that led them away must be broken to meet again.