| Overview: | 15 award-winning film festival shorts, showcasing the best of world cinema, foreign, independent, documentary and short films.
Shorts! A diverse group of award-winning short films showcased at film festivals all over the globe. Featuring some of the best shorts seen at the Sundance Film Festival, Aspen ShortsFest, Starz Denver International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and more... BONUS! Each short includes one or two Film Festival Collection exclusive audio commentaries by the filmmakers!
Includes the following films:
- WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
(US, 2002, Jeffrey Travis - 1:58)
A child's crayon drawing comes to life while his back is turned and causes some trouble, much to the young artist's displeasure.
- THE CHINESE WALL
(Netherlands, 2002, Systke Kok - 10:20)
By a wide margin our favorite film from this collection, about an older woman who goes out to eat at a Chinese restaurant on her birthday. She sits alone and, through voiceover, we hear her thoughts on all the other people in the restaurant as well as some painful snippets of her past that color her perceptions of the world. A very tasteful piece that quite honestly deserves better company than it mostly has in this collection.
- DREAMSCAPES (US, 2002, Sean McBride - 5:59)
- IN ABSENTIA
(UK, 2002, James Kibbey & Richard Heald - 5:59)
A lonely trucker rents a porno tape, only to discover that it stars his estranged daughter, who he thought was in nursing school...or something.
- JOHN AND MIA (Denmark, 2002, Christian Dyekjar - 25:15)
- THE WORLD OF INTERIORS (UK, 2001, Bunny Schendler - 6:26)
- DAD'S DEAD (UK, 2003, Chris Shepherd - 6:39)
- READY
(UK, 2002, Savina Dellicour - 18:43)
Yet another short film that starts with a fascinating premise but completely fails to deliver. A woman checks into a posh hotel to live it up on the last night of her life. All her ancestors have died on the eve of their 58th birthdays, so she is prepared and plans to go out in style.
- TENTH (US, 2002, Matt Kovalakides - 3:45)
- PISHADOO
(US, 1999, Marco Ricci & Michael Canzoniero - 22:07)
A very funny story about a boy who yearns to become a barber like his father. From a very young age he sweeps up and helps in his dad's shop. When he finally grows old enough, dad gives him a pair of scissors and lets him start cutting hair himself. The entire neighborhood shows up to congratulate the youngster and get their hair cut. But we soon learn that the young man's enthusiasm is not matched by talent, as he proceeds to disgrace himself and his dad's loyal customers with his horrendous haircut creations, like "The Pelham Bay Slope Cut". High quality production and acting, but the film completely fizzles into an unsatisfying ending unworthy of the rest of the film. Katherine Narducci ("The Sopranos") co-stars.
- SLEEP (UK, 2002, Matthew Thompson - 10:02)
- FISH NEVER SLEEP
(UK, 2002, Gaelle Denis - 6:20)
Intentionally ultra-sloppy, low-budget, childlike animation. Too annoying and nauseating to watch all the way through.
- CODA (US, 2001, Kitao Sakurai & Andrew Spirk - 10:29)
- NON-ABDUCTEES ANONYMOUS
(US, 2002, Philip Powell - 4:46)
A bizarre but funny (if slightly too long) short about a self-help group of "non-abductees"--that is, people who HAVEN'T been abducted by aliens. Together they tackle tough questions like "Why didn't the aliens choose me?" and engage in exercises to release their frustrations on the aliens who are so rudely ignoring them.
- EARTHQUAKE!
(UK/US, 2002, James Brett - 1:55)
This is truly weird, but truly hilarious. It's just a series of rubber dolls shaking around and screaming while the camera shakes, simulating an earthquake in various locations around the world. Car alarms and cacophany erupt everywhere as the little rubber dolls are helpless to do anything but spasm violently and scream in panic. The director describes the film as "technically, a piece of piss". It is. But it's hilarious.
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