EXPERIMENTAL Shorts Festival - Jan. 4/5 event
Independent, Short Films
See the Full Lineup of Fims:
SAPPHIRE / ALIEN SEED, SOUTHERN CITY, 16min., USA
Directed by Emma Colton
Sapphire is a time-traveling golden goddess moving through nature, pleasure, and mysticism. She snakes between seconds, flirting with the seen and unseen, marrying metallic molecules and alchemist dreams.
http://www.methodsofperception.com/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/sapphire-review
INISIYA, 3min., Turkey
Directed by ?pek Elif Aytar
In a psychedelic universe, a jade stone from space crashes into a planet where the long-legged blue goat lives. The crash creates enormous cracks in the ground, and the goat and the stone fall into the void of darkness through the cracks. The goat travels down to the underworld through a tunnel. When they reach the underworld, the jade stone compels the goat to follow the stone and enter the mud castle, where the underworld ruler waits.
https://www.instagram.com/_inisiya_/?igshid=MmIzYWVlNDQ5Yg%3D%3D
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/inisiya-review
MY MOTHER MY WORLD, 8min,. India
Directed by Dheeraj Kumar Chawre
In nature there are two types of mother; the monkey mother who does not go near it's child to save it but the child has to run towards its mother and hold mother to save its life in danger situation but in case of mother cat she will go near to its child catch hold her child in mouth and save its life in difficult situation. The working mother 'Rashmi' is facing similar situation in her life and she is struggling to become mother cat. This is an experimental film with no actor.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://wildsound.vhx.tv/videos/my-mother-my-world-review
ROSEMARY, 10min., UK
Directed by Jessica Tooth
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/rosemary-review
INTER, 7min, Austria
Directd by Claudia Ungersbäck
Sequences, splitters, fragments. In settings of body and pictureroom in space of representation and poetry is volume scanned and reproduced, expressed and restored. A Collage in hommage to Antonin Artaud.
http://www.claudiaungersbaeck.com/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/inter-review
DANCE FOR AN IDEAL CITY, 27min., Italy
Directed by Daniele Costa
The docufilm Dance for An Ideal City is a project which tells the different ways of experiencing dance in public places and through different languages, developed in Athens, Brussels, Rome and Reggio Emilia.A video-story, signed by director Daniele Costa and written by art critic Nicolas Ballario, which focuses on the possibility of reinterpreting urban places through contemporary dance, especially with the MicroDanze project by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto (one of the most prestigious contemporary dance companies in Italy and the first and only Italian National Choreographic Centre), through interviews with artists and curators (including choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, art historian Angela Vettese, visual-artist Gian Maria Tosatti, art curators Nadja Argyropolou and Costanza Meli and FND/Aterballetto director Gigi Cristoforetti).
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/dance-for-an-ideal-city-review
POETIQ JUSTIZ, 35min,. USA
Directed by Crista E. Noël
Police violence against women, especially Black women, was invisible before the Campaign for justice for Rekia Boyd lit a fire among the Activists/ Advocates and her family in Chicago. But how did her name, out of all the women who have been killed by police, make it into Jesse Williams' BET acceptance speech? Come take the journey as we express our grief, trauma, and recovery through art as therapy and find out.
https://www.hullhousemuseum.org/poetic-justice