NULEPSY
Jessica Sarah Rinland
ENGLAND | 2010 | 9 min | 35mm on video
A chronicle of a pathological need to be nude. An old man tells the story of growing up with a disease called Nulepsy, which causes him to spontaneously remove his clothes.
HOME MOVIE
Braden King USA | 2009 | 14 min | video | Best Narrative Film Award 49th AAFF
Blurring the traditional boundaries between documentary and dramatic fiction, Home Movie reveals an intimate and somber portrait of a woman at home with her two small children as they cope with the unexplained absence of their father.
THE MECHANISM OF SPRING
Atsushi Wada JAPAN | 2010 | 4 min | video | Prix DeVarti Funniest Film Award 49th AAFF
An expression of the itchy feelings everyone experiences when Spring comes.
I TOUCHED HER LEGS
Eva Marie Rødbro USA / DENMARK | 2010 | 15 min | video | Emerging Experimental Video Artist Award 49th AAFF
An extraordinary portrait of a group of Southern teens hanging out in cars, rooms, and neighborhood yards in humid pool-party weather. Rødbro creates a deft and skillful montage in which animals, insects children and adolescents all inhabit an environment easily and warmly shared. Through subtly glancing shots taken at oblique angles and in brief bursts, I Touched Her Legs reaches directly into the soul of this small band of friends and explains everything that is important without a single dull expository declaration on their circumstances.
PINK
Soon-Mi Yoo S. KOREA / USA | 2011 | 6 min | video | Jury Award 49th AAFF
Pink is a glimpse into a world of Itaewon in Seoul, South Korea. Itaewon was an R&R area for the US soldiers from the Yongsan military base. Although it is still patrolled by US military personnel, foreign workers from Southeast Asia and Africa also frequent the district. In a small concentrated area called Hooker Hill, women sit inside bars and "screen" potential customers.
IT, HEAT, HIT
Laure Prouvost ENGLAND | 2010 | 7 min | video
It, Heat, Hit constructs and propels an inferred story through a fast-moving sequence of written commentary and excerpts of everyday incidents and pictures that have been filmed by the artist. Innocent and pleasing images, such as a swimming frog or snowy street scene, are followed by statements of love and implied violence. These are inter-cut with strange, disconnected images, such as close-ups of flowers, body parts or food. The mood of the film gradually becomes darker and more unsettling, though nothing is stated directly. The growing intensity of the film is reinforced by the oppressive rhythm of a drum which accompanies snatches of music and speech.
JAN VILLA
Natasha Mendonca INDIA / USA | 2010 | 20 min | 16mm on video | Best of the Festival Award 49th AAFF
After the monsoon floods of 2005 that submerged Bombay, the filmmaker returns to her city to examine the personal impact of the devastating event. The result is Jan Villa, a tapestry of images that studies the space of a post-colonial metropolis but in a way that deeply implicates the personal. The destruction wreaked by the floods becomes a telling and a dismantling of other devastation's and the sanctuaries of family and home. In its structure, Jan Villa is a vortex, drawing to its center all that surrounds it.
ALIKI
Richard Wiebe USA | 2009 | 5 min | video | Most Promising Filmmaker Award 49th AAFF Lake Aliki, Cyprus.
For centuries, flamingos have wintered here from Iran. Rimbaud encountered them when he worked a quarry in Larnaca. 7th century Arab raiders described them to mark the burial site of Umm Haram, Aunt of the Prophet Muhammad. It is said that Lazarus spent his days on the shores of this lake after his resurrection-staring into the sun to shake off the darkness of the grave. The Greeks represented flamingos in poetry, the Romans slaughtered them for their tongues. Today, a man sings: Pharmacist, oh pharmacist, oh pharmacist, / I want medicine for myself, I want medicine for myself, My heart, my heart, my heart is beating like this, / My heart is afflicted because of you.
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