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1/11/2005

Films for the impatient

Contemporary Art Centre - CAC, Vilnius

Films for the impatient

In the course of more than five decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists such as Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, David Lynch, Alexander Kluge and Werner Herzog, and more recently Ulrike Ottinger, Romuald Karmakar, Pipilotti Rist, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Francois Ozon have presented their first films. More than thousands of short films and videos are submitted every year, out of which a couple of hundreds are presented in the various competitions and sections of the festival. Oberhausen provides an open platform for every imaginable format of moving picture, covering the entire spectrum of the short form. But a film isn't selected simply for being well produced. A work must always be judged against its own claim of being something new - regardless of genre, production quality and budget.

The program will present a selection of works from the festival´s 2005 international competition program. These films will show that the discussion about the various forms and contexts in which short films appear today is vivid and open. As a festival we see year after year the innovative potential short films develop mostly off the focus and the interests of a film market. Their resources are immense because they move easily between different spheres of production and reception: From the filmschool to the white cube, from internet to celluloid, from music to film industry, from a home PC to the big screen!

Program:
WHAT I‘M LOOKING FOR, Shelly Silver, 15‘, USA, 2004 The film narrates a strange adventure at the intersection between public space and the internet, still and moving images, control and desire.

AUDITION TAPE, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, 8‘, Canada, 2003 Gay white male, 29 years old, good singing voice and co-ordination, desperately seeks job as performer in a Russian girl pop group. History, sexuality and identity collide in a musical monologue.

GADZO, GADZE, Marjoleine Boonstra, 6‘, Slovakia, 2004 How can this grandfather look after his grandson?

WILD BOY, Guy Ben-Ner, 17‘, Israel, 2004 The director and his four-year-old son enact a story of a feral child and his education in the family’s kitchen.

YESTERDAY ... I THINK, Becalelis Brodskis, 5‘, UK, 2005 Once there was a baby who made those around him hate.

FISTICUFFS, Miranda Pennell, 11‘, UK, 2004 A bloke walks into a pub ... six actors punch, kick and wrestle their way through the Wild West of an East London drinking establishment.

ALBUM, Matthias Mueller, 24‘, Germany, 2004 "Album" is nurtured by my personal arsenal of memories. Numerous moving images I collected over the years encounter each other, as do pictures in a photo album. Inserted texts accompany and temporarily possess the images, only to ultimately leave them as they are.

Total length: 85‘

Christiane Buechner, author and filmmaker. Studied fine art, film and media design in Berlin and Cologne. Since 2001 guest professor for media design at Wuppertal University and the FH Mainz. Member of the Selection Committee for the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen since 2001, with a special focus on Russia/CIS. Her last film, was the documentary „Neighbours of the Kremlin“, which has been shown at the documentary fortnight at the MoMA, NY. Lives in Cologne, Germany.

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Image: Christiane Buechner

Opening: 18.00 Wednesday 2 November

Contemporary Art Centre
Vokieciu 2, LT - Vilnius

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