Transidency has coupled up with the global short film network – Future Shorts, to present a screening related to the Time of Distance exhibition.
Friday 25 April 2008 /// Tickets €5
Berlin 7pm GMT+1 /// ACUD Kino, Veteranestr. 21, 10119
Helsinki 8pm GMT+2 /// Andorra Kino, Eerikinkatu 11, 00100
FUTURE SHORTS SECTION:
WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE
Dir: Daniel Askill / Australia /2003
Ten minutes to die for. A breath-taking burnished triptych, it evokes a surreal ritualistic world, whose characters appear to float free of space and time.
NIE SOLO SEIN
Dir: Jan Schomburg / Germany / 2004
One morning Max finds himself in a world in which time runs backwards. Will he find his way through this strange world?
HUONEESTA TOISEEN (FROM ONE ROOM TO ANOTHER)
Dir: Risto-Pekka Blom / Finland / 2003
A visual objection against similarity.
BATTAILLE
Dir: Nicolas Provost / Belgium / 2003
Two samurai are fighting against each other over a woman. Or are they fighting for the cosmos? A refashioning of a samurai fight from Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon.
CITY PARADISE
Dir: Gaelle Denis / UK / 2004
When Tomoko moves to London she finds the city an alienating place, but a supernatural encounter changes everything.
M CRAFT (Music Video for DRAGONFLY)
Dir: Gemma Burditt / UK / 2006
A man leaves his house in North West London to find a rowing boat parked in his street. Curious, he climbs in and rows. Courtesy of BBC Film Network.
I AM NOT VAN GOGH
Dir: David Russo / USA / 2005
A misfit artist proposes a film production to a confused public arts festival panel. A true story, many times over, originally created as a site-specific art installation for Seattle’s Bumbershoot festival.
TRANSIDENCY SECTION:
THE ILLUMINUOUS ONES
Dir: Jaakko Ruuska / Finland / 2008 / 31 min 31s (13 frames)
Zorro and Boris, those ruthless spirits of love, the Illuminous ones, lead me into the zone where our culture was seen only as disappearing forms of wasteland.
MILAN
Dir: Michaela Kezele & Kathrin Henkel / Serbia&Germany/ 2007/ 24 min
In the midst of the 1999 NATO air-raids in Yugoslavia, two brothers make plans to play hide and seek in the forest.
LOVESICK
Dir: Spela Cadez, Germany/Slovenia 2007 / 8min
A delightful animation that shows that love really can conquer all - even the hazards
SPECIAL SCREENING:
A FATE AMENABLE TO CHANGE
Dir: Gillian Holt / Germany & Finland / 2006
In this film parallel realities, space and non space, time and non time, recursivity, loss, and discovery are explored through the experiences of a young woman stranded in time and space. her journey is dialogue with the beauty which is found in the unplanned, uncontrolled, and the unforeseen.