Saturday Shorts - Shorts Package
Short, 25 New Faces |
2016 |
1hr 38min
CAST: Various DIRECTOR: Various
CAST: Various DIRECTOR: Various
The filmmakers for ALL of the films below will be in attendance to answer your questions after these films screen on Saturday.
Abandoned Goods - USA (37mins)
D: Pia Borg & Edward Lawrenson
Abandoned Goods is a short film that tells the story of the journey of the Adamson Collection. Recently rediscovered after years of neglect, the collection is one of the major bodies of British 'asylum art'. It contains around 5,500 objects (paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and works on stone, flint and bone) created between 1946 and 1981 by patients in Netherne psychiatric hospital in Surrey. Blending archive, reconstruction, 35mm rostrum photography, interviews and observational footage, the film explores the transformation of the objects in the Adamson Collection, from clinical material to revered art objects, examining the lives of the creators and the changing contexts in which the objects were produced and displayed.
Hotel 22 - USA (9mins)
D: Elizabeth Lo
Each night in Silicon Valley, the Line 22 bus transforms into an unofficial shelter for the homeless. This film captures one dramatic night on the Hotel 22 bus. This film premiered at Sundance earlier this year.
Picturing Barbara Kruger - USA (5mins)
D: Pippa Bianco
How do you make a film about the artist’s image without using it?
Share - USA (11mins)
D: Pippa Bianco
A 15-year-old girl returns to school after someone shares an explicit video of her. This film received a Special Jury Award at SXSW, and also played at the Cannes (where it received the award for the top student film in the world) and Telluride Film Festivals.
The Solitude of Memory - USA (19mins)
D: Juan Pablo González
A meditation on memory and grief through the portrait of a father who repeatedly remembers the last words he said to his son before his untimely death. This film received the Jury Award for a Documentary Short at Slamdance.
Stop - USA (9mins)
D: Reinaldo Marcus Green
A young man's livelihood is put to the test when he gets stopped by the police on his way home from practice. This film premiered at Sundance earlier this year.
