Known for its intriguing curatorial choices, Locarno Film Festival does not make an exception at the time of preparing the selection of its Pardi di Domani short film section… Read More
It is a world of its own, the world of the film labs – especially when referring to the artist-run or self-governing film labs and not the industrial or commercial… Read More
Das Festival von Locarno, eines der wichtigsten internationalen Filmfestivals überhaupt, setzt sich traditionell für den Kurzfilm ein. Mit seinen nationalen und internationalen Kurzfilmwettbewerben, aber auch durch die im Februar online stattfindende Shortsweek. Als Giona Nazzaro 2021 als künstlerischer Leiter angetreten ist, hat er dieses Engagement noch verstärkt. Zusammen mit Eddie Bertozzi, der die Kurzfilm-Sektion Pardi di Domani verantwortet, hat er einen neuen Wettbewerb ins Leben gerufen für Filme bereits etablierter Regisseur*innen: Cordi d’autore. shortfilm.de traf die beiden kurz vor dem diesjährigen Festival zum Gespräch über ihren Begriff vom Kurzfilm und ihre Bemühungen, ihn in das gesamte Festival-Ökosystem einzubinden. Read More
Ojoboca (Anja Dornieden und Juan David González Monroy) machen zugleich mehr und weniger als „Kurzfilme“. Mehr, weil sie neben Filmen auch Performances und Installationen entwickeln, derzeit an ihrem zweiter Langfilm arbeiten und Texte von einer eigenwilligen Literarizität fast alle ihre Bewegtbildarbeiten begleiten. Read More
“Are you afraid you’re not actually here,” asks a resounding voice in Gudrun Krebitz’s latest work “Echodrome” as the water ripples and splashes. There it is again – the ‘you’. A hallmark of Krebitz, a word that is at times a dialogic reassurance of the self, often addressing some metaphorical counterpart, or mostly directed at the potential audience. Read More
“What’s your name, where do you come from? Thanks for being here.” During the storyboard exhibition at the Kosovan Anibar Animation Festival, the volunteers eagerly seek out human contact… Read More
One of Georgia’s best-known toasts goes something like this: When God was apportioning out the land he had just created, he summoned everyone to a meeting. Georgians, of course,… Read More
The short film form, a synonym for certain artistic freedom in the presumptively dependent on high budgets film industry, could play a crucial part in the process of reinvention of a national cinema. The ingenuity and aesthetic diversity of the newest Armenian short films caught my eye still in 2021 when I first attended Yerevan’s Golden Apricot International Film Festival. Read More
This year in April, a planned film that was never shot served as a pretext for sentencing the Turkish documentary filmmaker and producer Çiğdem Mater to a prison term of… Read More
Enraptured, the two-legged creature picks the blissfully smiling axolotl up from the earth and pops it in its mouth. Sheer joy. Doing so, its hands – filigree stick-puppet hands – initially reach out tentatively then greedily for the tasty stop-motion being. In Jonatan Schwenk’s ZOON, over and again we encounter so many nuances and animation techniques, all at the same time. Read More
One of the many recent upheavals in the film and festival world, in this case caused or presumably accelerated by the pandemic, involves the expansion of festival activities beyond the… Read More
[/caption]Seit 2017 veröffentlicht die Animationsfilmemacherin und Medienkünstlerin Tracy Miller-Robbins aus Cincinnati mit bewundernswerter Ausdauer auf ihrem Blog eine Auswahl von Film- und Medienkunstfestivals, die von FilmemacherInnen keine Einreichgebühren verlangen. … Read More
Little effort is required when gleaning facts from the available databases. We soon discover here that the non-profit Chemnitz Filmworkshop is a media-education institute that “promotes young filmic talent”. Its headquarters and official address is the Clubkino Siegmar cinema, which was entrusted to the association in 1996. But what exactly lies behind these sobering facts and figures, behind these ideas, which is far greater than them and has already been lived out for decades by the out-and-out filmmakers from Chemnitz? Read More
Zwanzig Jahre AG Kurzfilm, zwei Jahrzehnte Medienwandel
In der goldenen Zeit des Kurzfilms reichte man das Dessert vor dem Hauptgang: Nicht wenige Zuschauer kauften ihre Karte für zwanzig Minuten Chaplin oder sieben Minuten Mickey Mouse und kümmerten sich erst in zweiter Linie um den Hauptfilm danach. Kurzfilme brachten Zeitstimmungen auf den Punkt, bedienten populäre Dramaturgien noch effektvoller als die Langfilme und standen für den Reiz des Neuen. Read More
Sophie Linnenbaum, who was born in Nuremberg in 1986, is an observer of small everyday moments and human encounters. Yet her films are not intended to be understood as pure entertainment. Nor do they let themselves be casually consumed and then founder in our memories overflowing with moving images. Read More
In our new Spotlight section, we will now be reporting at frequent intervals on current developments, festivals and the short film scene in countries that are always somewhat outside of Western perception, but which are worth taking a closer look at for that very reason. Read More
There are two regional film support programs in the UK that help short filmmakers make the transition to feature-length films. Both programs are supported by the British Film Institute… Read More
In June, the Independent Cinema Office launched a short film tour called “The Camera Is Ours,” featuring films by pioneering British women from the 1930s to the 1960s. The films… Read More
The Italian Short Film Center, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is releasing ten short films that can be distributed free of charge for cinema… Read More
TikTok, the world’s largest social media platform for short films, announced on March 15 to be an official partner of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival 2022. To… Read More
Since the beginning of Putin’s war of aggression on Ukraine, there has been a very great solidarity with the people in Ukraine worldwide. Extensive relief actions were started immediately and… Read More
The non-commercial agency for Austrian avant-garde and experimental films has been offering an extensive tour program of films by Mara Mattuschka since mid-December. The five feature-length programs also include two… Read More
The video-on-demand platform Festival Scope presents a selection of 7 short films from the Cannes Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2021. Among the films are: The coming-of-age drama WHEN NIGHT MEETS… Read More
Cannes Special Edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival screens films for free. On the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival, currently back on location for the first time, MyFrenchFilmFestival is offering a Cannes… Read More
For its 40th anniversary, the Black Maria Film Festival has renamed itself the Thomas Edison Film Festival. Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, the touring festival typically screens and discusses short… Read More