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The 14th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris
November 24 - December 4, 2016
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Competition International Short Films
# 7 |
Sunday 27, November / 2 pm
Mains d'Oeuvres
Paris |
Cut Out |
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Guli Silberstein
Great Britain
2016 | 0:04:00
A radiant, energetic girl is shouting and punching an unseen enemy in
the empty space in front of her. She is roughly cut out from her
surroundings by a computer algorithm struggling to contain her.
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Woman and her Car |
Elle pis son char |
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Loïc Darses
Canada
2015 | 0:18:00
On 31 December 2003, Lucie Tremblay decided to write to the man who
abused her between ages eight and twelve. She is determined to
personally deliver the letter. She films her journey to gain closure
for the trauma that has haunted her whole life.
When her son finds the footage well over a decade later, he decides to
turn it into a film: A Woman and her Car.
An intimate homage to the courage of an exceptional woman who decided
to stand up for herself and a savage condemnation of the bastards who
abuse the innocence of others and think they can get away with it.
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Poem to Go |
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Nina Hochrainer
USA
2015 | 0:07:00
Lynn Gentry is a street poet in New York City. Every day, he places
himself with his typewriter on a street corner in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn and writes poems for passer-bys under the simple premise:
Pick a subject, choose a price, get a poem.
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Hounds |
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Omer Tobi
Israel
2016 | 0:30:00
For sixteen years Iris Kadosh has been the keeper of the museum’s
exhibits, with much dedication and no complaints. One day she arrives
to work to find out that the museum’s operational manager has left and
she will be taking her place. The good news is tainted by Iris’
involvement in an accident, one that causes the museum to shut down
and brings about an investigation. Iris must work her way through the
ever growing anxiety she feels and the colorful and crude ensemble of
workers that hover around her. She must face dark questions on ethics,
good vs. bad, and decide how far she will go in order to keep the
great position she was offered just that morning. The tragic and
amusing dynamics between the museum’s employees creates an opera of
marginal and rejected characters searching for any shred of respect
from the world.
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The Island |
La Isla |
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Marco Ferrari
Spain
2015 | 0:19:30
The history of a magic island where everything is possible.
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Plasma Vista |
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Harriet Fleuriot, Sarah Cockings
Great Britain
2016 | 0:07:31
Plasma Vista allowed us to explore themes of economics, production,
creativity and collaboration. Objects and devices become bodily and
manipulative. The magician is a composed cartoon machine repeating
tricks and equations. When products become prosthetics does the
accessory take some emotional control? A creative trance. A
collaborative force. A playful duplication of the self with greater
consequence that first suspected. A filmic exhibit and retail site
that morphed into an experimental piece of moving image occupying the
dual space between utility and art.
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November 24 - December 4, 2016
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.
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