Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2012 – Special Program
Film screenings: February, 25th-26th 2013
6:30 p.m. in Sala Ruse (Pirot Str. 12)
in original language with English subtitles
Short Film Festival Oberhausen
International Competition 2012
Six for the most part documentary and experimental video works that take a close look at human and animal behaviour. In Finland, the elk and the elk whisperer stalk each other until the final showdown. In “Snow Tapes”, stones are cast at young Palestinians. What is fiction, what is documentary? The diversity of current international short film production is waiting to be discovered.
Snow Tapes
Michael Zupraner – Israel, Palestinian territories 2011, 13 min.
Ersatz
Elodie Pong – Switzerland, France 2011, 4 min.
Malody
Phillip Barker – Canada 2012, 12 min.
Hirvikuiskaaja
Ilkka Rautio – Finland 2011, 19 min.
No estoy muerto, solo estoy dormido
Juan S. Lopez Maas – Netherlands 2011, 25 min.
Café Regular, Cairo
Ritesh Batra, Egypt,India 2011, 11 min.
Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Artist Film & Video 2012
North America, Kenya, Singapore: The artists of this year’s Artist Film & Video Programme lead us in quite a personal manner to distant worlds, both real and imaginary. Moreover these award-winning and strongly political works give us an insight into the current state of international media art work.
The Sweetness of Mother’s Hair
Jana Debus – Germany 2011, 18 min.
Applied Theories of Expanding Minds
Lena Bergendahl, Rut Karin Zettergren – Sweden, Kenya 2011, 32 min.
Sounding Glass
Sylvia Schedelbauer – Germany 2011, 10 min.
Jalan Jati
Lucy Davis – Singapore 2012, 22 min.
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