A month has passed since I first reported on the reactions of film festivals to the official closures – time to take a look at the current situation. In… Read More
Waiting for the wave 2 – film festivals between shutdown and hope
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Auszeichnungen March 2020
Festival International du Film sur l’Art Montréal (CAN) || 31.03.2020 Award for Best Short Film: L’ÂGE D’OR, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, F Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA) ||… Read More
Short film specials in times of Corona
updated on 14 July 2020
Festivals have been cancelled or moved to the Internet, film starts have been postponed, and some cinemas are now opening under strict hygiene conditions. Public and also cultural life seemed to stand almost still for a long time. Many initiatives tried to creatively overcome the crisis and also offer short film compilations.
Here we would like to present a small collection of short film offers, which will be continuously updated. We would be happy to take up your suggestions, just send us a short message to info@shortfilm.de. Read More
Waiting for the wave – film festivals between shutdown and hope
Since mid-March at the latest, cultural life, insofar as it is based on human encounters, has been at a standstill. Organizers of film festivals that were planned for the… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2019 – a brief analysis
Ever since 2008 we have published an annual review of the short film prizes awarded the previous year. Now it’s time to take a look back at the year 2019. Read More
Short Film Goes to School
Kurzfilme sind die Musterschüler*innen unter den Filmen. Sie sind aus verschiedenen Gründen perfekt für den Einsatz im Unterricht geeignet und tatsächlich ist es in diesem Fall wirklich mal die Länge, auf die es ankommt. Oder die Kürze, wenn man genau sein will. Denn ein Kurzfilm lässt sich ganz wunderbar in eine Unterrichtseinheit integrieren, der in Deutschland – noch immer – meist im Rahmen von Blöcken organisiert ist, die entweder 45 oder 90 min. betragen. Read More
Awards February 2020
Academy Awards (USA) || 24.02.2020 Documentary Short Winner: LEARNING TO SKATEBOARD IN A WARZONE (IF YOU’RE A GIRL), Carol Dysinger, UK Short Film Live Action Winner: THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW, Marshall… Read More
Awards January 2020
Slamdance Film Festival, Park City (USA) || 30.01.2020 Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize: TUNGRUS, Rishi Chandna, India Narrative Short Grand Jury Prize: WOMAN IN STALL, Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli,… Read More
The Shape of Liberty
Zur Ausstellung „Move little hands…‚ Move!‘“ in den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Dresden (18. November 2019 – 8. März 2020) mit Werken der tschechischen Surrealisten Jan & Eva Švankmajer Read More
Steps within Crises
Notes on the Filmic Encounters of Clara Winter and Miiel Ferráez
Bereits fünf Filme entstanden aus der mittlerweile mehrjährigen Zusammenarbeit von Clara Winter und Miguel Ferráez, tatsächlich ist das dynamische Duo in allen selbst vor der Kamera aktiv und versucht, sich an zunehmend ausgestellten Positionierungen, Halbfiktionen und Zeichenspielen. Bei ihrer Begegnung trafen filmische Stile aufeinander, die verschiedener kaum sein konnten – das Resultat waren neue Fragen und Methoden. Die Filme der beiden protokollieren neben ihren expliziten Fragestellungen zu sozialem Status und Nationalität allem voran eine künstlerische Evolution und die Entwicklung eines transkulturellen Stils. Ihre Experimente wirken sowohl im Verhältnis zum deutschen, als auch mexikanischen Kino erfreulich deplatziert. Read More
Everyday Marvels: Film Portrait of Gunter Deller
Marvelling at the everyday, such as chance refractions of light, passing shadows, or a carelessly dropped handkerchief being blown by the wind almost gracefully across the ground – in the face of our fast-moving world, these brief observations of random phenomena seem to have ever-decreasing significance. With hardly any place left in our everyday lives for pausing and perceiving all that plays out quietly in our immediate surroundings. This is not so with Gunter Deller, who has made the marvelling at everyday phenomena his filmic practice. Read More
Service providers in the short film sector – vertical integration among online suppliers
For some time now, we have been observing a trend among what were once specialized platforms to offer more and more additional services that are not part of their… Read More
James Edmonds – Flickering Everyday
A fleeting view of a garden through a window. The sky a radiant blue, completely cloudless. A close-up of an insect, intently pursuing its purpose. In James Edmonds’ filmic universe,… Read More
Return to the cinema? Streamers shuffle the film industry and redistribute cards
Around the year 2000 the former Big Six, now Big Five after the merger of Disney and Fox, the six big Hollywood film studios, released more than 200 movies a… Read More
Short film festivals and video-on-demand Part 2: Collaborations with VoD providers
Video-on-demand is a viable option for film festivals that want to extend their reach by offering users anytime, anywhere access to films on the internet. In this second part of… Read More
Awards July 2019
Experimental Film and Video Festival Seoul (Korea) || 31.07.2019 Best EXiS Award: E-TICKET, Simon Liu, Hong Kong Korean EXiS Award: LAOMEDEIA, Youjin Moon, USA JungWoon Award: PRAYER TO OUR FATHER,… Read More
Awards June 2019
Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) || 30.06.2019 Best Short Film: TELEFONUL (THE CALL), Anca Damian, ROM Euganea Film Festival, Padua (I) || 30.06.2019 Primo Premio Concurso internazionale animazione: AUGENBLICKE,… Read More
Jeffrey Katzenberg announces premium short form video platform Quibi – Hollywood meets Silicon Valley
The rapid increase in the production of short video forms for mobile terminals is obvious. But most of what we see is user-generated contributions from amateurs. Hollywood producer legend Jeffrey… Read More
B3 und THE ARTS+ auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019
[/caption]Die diesjährige Frankfurter Buchmesse (16.-20. Oktober 2019) stellt die Kultur in den Mittelpunkt des globalen gesellschaftlichen Diskurses. Gemeinsam mit den Vereinten Nationen (UN) und dem Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels startet… Read More
Contra Images – The Video Works of the NEOZOON Collective
Just a lovely animal. In “Buck Fever”, a video work from the NEOZOON female artist collective, armed people kill non-human animals for pleasure, and then pose beside the carcasses for… Read More
Short film festivals and video-on-demand Part 1: VoD initiatives launched by festivals
Video-on-Demand pioneer: Sundance Film Festival © Screenshot SundanceTV, 17/06/2019 Video-on-demand still makes up only a small share of the audio-visual market compared to other distribution channels such as television,… Read More
Film Festivals for Web Series – Tentative First Steps
German audiences love series. Regardless of their distribution channel, on television or streamed on the internet, they are right on the top of the rankings, directly behind sports events. And… Read More
Awards May 2019
Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull (Ireland) || 26.05.2019 Best Irish Film: DAY OUT, Virginia Gilber, Ireland Best International Film: FUCKING DRAMA, Michael Podogil, A Best Student: RECOVERY, Siofra Quinn Gates… Read More
The Secret Film History of Argentina
The synonymous usage of the terms “experimental film” and “avant-garde film” is a relatively recent phenomenon: In Germany, designating a work as “experimental” had a negative connotation for a long time. This is related to the situation whereby in the turbulent 1960s, influential writers such as Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Die Aporien der Avantgarde/The Aporia of the Avant-Garde, 1962) or Siegfried Kracauer (Theorie des Films/Theory of Film, 1964) demanded of art, and indeed in general, that it should not occur “remote from everyday life” either parallel to or outside society, but rather assume responsibility. Read More
Only Our Data Volume Can Stop Us Now!
People are viewing films and series on their smart phones. There, I’ve said it. It makes the eyes of cinema purists well up with tears of wrath, but a long underrated format is finally stepping into the limelight: The web series. Read More
New: Online film distribution 99.media (France)
For some weeks now, the French organisation 99.media, based in Lyon (F), has been recommending itself as a provider and distributor of short documentaries. The online platform has been in existence since 2015. The organisation is also the initiator of a one-day film festival of the same name, held in a café in Lyon. According to co-founder Jérôme Plan, however, it was only now, after there had been requests from film clubs for film copies, that the idea of offering films that had previously only been streamed online for screening in cinemas was born. Read More
Awards April 2019
crossing europe filmfestival, Linz (A) || 30.04.2019 Local Artist Sachpreis: FLEISCHWOCHEN, Joachim Iseni, A Innovative Award – Local Artist: ANIMISTICA, Nikki Schuster, A / D / Mex Creative Region… Read More
France: New CNC study – Record number of short films in the cinema
For the ninth time in a row, the French Centre national du cinéma et de l’image (CNC) has published a study on the situation of short film in France. The key questions were: What kind of short films are produced, how are they financed and what distribution channels do they benefit from? Read More
Awards March 2019
Festival international de films de femmes, Créteil (F) || 31.03.2019 Meilleur court métrage étranger: THE DIVINE WAY, Ilaria Di Carlo, D Meilleur court métrage français: LA BOUCLE, Vanda Braems, F… Read More
Two Years of “Pro Short” Short Film Association in Switzerland
Two years ago, filmmakers, festival organisers and producers came together in January in Solothurn to found the Pro Short Swiss short film association. That August, a manifesto was released… Read More