Short Film Festival
dal 2/5/2001 al 8/5/2001
Segnalato da
2/5/2001
Short Film Festival
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen
47th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. In the four competitions held at the 47th International Short Film Festival, 149 short films will compete for altogether 16 prizes. In the International Competition, 70 films from 34 countries have been selected.
The competitions
In the four competitions held at the 47th International
Short Film Festival, 149 short films will compete for
altogether 16 prizes.
In the International Competition, 70 films from 34
countries have been selected. The USA and Canada are
represented most strongly, but there is an unusually high
number of contributions this year from South America and
South East Asia. Countries with a smaller film output, like
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand and Kazakhstan, are also
well represented. Among the directors are artists and
filmmakers like Nam June Paik, Doug Aitken, Jon Jost and
James Herbert, but also others such as Souheil Bachar, a
member of the Lebanese Atlas Group, and Jeferson De, one of
the signatories of the Brazilian Dogma Feijoada.
Dates: 4-8 May
The International Jury:
Pierre Bongiovanni, Director of the Centre de Recherche
Pierre Schaeffer CICV, France
Haile Gerima, Filmmaker, Eritrea/USA
Nicole Gingras, Curator, Canada
Laima Slava, Journalist, Latvia
Pimpaka Towira, Filmmaker/Journalist, Thailand
Altogether 39 films have been chosen for the German
Competition. Most of these are especially short, running
for less than ten minutes.
This year a notably large number
of them comes from German colleges specialising in art and
design. With five Films, the Academy of Media Arts in
Cologne is the most strongly represented film school.
The
filmmakers include such familiar faces as Matthias Müller,
Michael Brynntrup, Jochen Kuhn and Thomas Struck, but also
others like Jos Stelling with The Gas Station, a film from
the series "Erotic Tales."
Dates: 4-8 May
The Jury:
Elena Kounadis, Filmforum, Berlin
Nikolaj Nikitin, SCHNITT, Bochum
Herbert Schwering, Filmmaker, Cologne
The MuVi Award has now become firmly established. This year
there are twice as many entries as in 2000. The eleven
competitors include experienced MuVi directors like Michel
Klöfkorn and Oliver Husain (award-winners in 1999) with
Walking back home (Commercial Breakup), Sebastian Kutscher
with Do Dekor (Jan Jelinek), and Rosa Barba with Kontra
(Microstoria).
Around half of the clips have never been
shown on German music television, so there is plenty to
discover here. There's plenty to discover on the Web as
well: the Short Film Festival and Popkomm.de will be
putting the eleven nominations online as of April.
Users
can form their own opinion of the videos via streaming, and
vote for the audience prize, which will be presented on May
5 in Oberhausen.
Access:
www.kurzfilmtage.de
www.popkomm.de
Dates: 5-6 May
The Jury:
Georges Bermann, Producer, Paris
Jem Cohen, Filmmaker, New York
Arezu Weitholz, Journalist, London
One striking thing about the Children's and Youth Film
Competition this year is the change of name: from
"Children's Film Competition" to "Children's and Youth Film
Competition." For the first time, a programme for 14-16
year-olds will be presented. There has been a swing away
from the Scandinavian countries, which used always to be
strongly represented; most of the entries come from Germany
and Canada. 29 films from 18 countries will be shown.
Dates: May 3, 4, 7 and 8.