March, 9th-10th 2015 – 6.00 p.m.
Sala „Kultura“, Tzaribrod Street 3, Ruse

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen for already 60 years takes place in the Ruhr region and is among the most important short film institutions in the world. For the ninth time, the Festival is sending films from its festival program on a world tour, including to Ruse. The International Elias Canetti Society will show two short film selections on two evenings: # Best of International Competition – five award-winning films from the festival’s International Competition 2014 and # Artist Film and Video – five films between Black Box and White Cube, including the winner of the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen 2014.

March, 9th – 6.00 p.m.
International Competition 2014

The first selection shows five award-winning international films that revolve around the serious themes of memory, loneliness and isolation but always with some bright, positive highlights. Teboho Edkins, for example, explores in his documentary with a playful twist the complex realities of life on the fringes of Cape Town society, where the prospect of death is always imminent. Maria Kourkouta tries to regain a sense of belonging by combining found footage with poetry and music into a multi-layered collage. And “Neeuklidi nė Geometrija” uses sometimes perplexing but always outstandingly animated images to tell of the apparently finite nature of love. The grand cinema of the short form is here to be discovered in a specially selected program.

Epistrofi Stin Odo Aiolu/ Returning to Aeolus Street
(Maria Kourkouta, France, Greece 2013, 14‘)

Neeuklidi Nė Geometrija/ Non-euclidean Geometry
(Solveiga Masteikaite, Jakaite Skirmanta, Lithuania 2013, 11’)

A Million Miles Away
(Jennifer Reeder, USA 2014, 28’)

Exorcize Me
(SooKoon Ang, Singapur 2013, 3’)

Gangster Backstage
(Teboho Edkins, Frankreich, South Africa 2013, 37’)

March, 10th – 6.00 p.m.
Artist Film and Video 2014

This selection contains five films between Black Box and White Cube that confront the past and ask in diverse ways “What remains?”. Whilst Lior Shamriz both literally and figuratively investigates a bygone picture of Berlin, Josef Dabernig shows us in brilliantly composed black-and-white images people sitting on the banks of an Italian river who simply appropriate the landscape – regardless of its inhospitality. “La Estancia”, winner of this year’s Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen, depicts a massacre sparked by the battle for land rights in Paraguay, reconstructed as a series of subtle tableaux. The directors in this film program employ a range of very unusual techniques and aesthetics, and some of their works have been shown to great acclaim in art exhibitions. Taken together, these films, some of them award-winning, give viewers an insight into the current state of international artist films.

L’ Amour sauvage
(Lior Shamriz, Germany 2014, 26’)

xx-xx-xx gewobenes papier
(Michel Klöfkorn, Germany 2014, 6‘)

River Plate
(Josef Dabernig, Austria 2013, 16‘)

False Twins
(Sandro Aguilar, Portugal 2014, 21‘)

La Estancia
(Federico Adorno, Paraguay 2014, 13’)

The movies will be shown in the original language with English subtitles.

For more information visit:
http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/archiv/verleih/oberhausen-on-tour/

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