Europe in Shorts
24.12.2011
It all starts out funny enough: A little girl called Cherry paints faces on her fingers and acts out her birthday, which by the way is today, and how she expects it to go down with the members of her family, mom, dad, the baby and her bigger sister. The real experience following her fantasy is then
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24.12.2011
The situation – as seems only fitting for a story situated in the Middle East conflict – is rather complicated. There's an Israeli settlement in the Palestinian municipality of Hebron, meaning that much like in Northern Ireland the conflicting parties have to live next door to each
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24.12.2011
15 minutes of painstaking details, of calm patience, of everyday life in all its pointlessness. DECEMBER 25th, written and directed by Noa Erenberg, is a study of loneliness and being lost in a dark urban cityscape and in hollow, impersonal flats. Filmed matter-of-factly in muted, desaturated
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09.12.2011
When we remember events from our past, we reconstruct, reshape and reorganize them in order to give them meaning. Also, we forget about 90% of it all. Then when we tell the story of our life, we leave out even more, all the boring bits, and we construct an interesting narrative in the hope of
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30.11.2011
Screenwriting legend Shane Black was the first one to introduce human tragedy into action films, when he had Mel Gibson in LETHAL WEAPON tell the story of how one time in Laos he killed a man with an extremely difficult long-range rifle shot. “Maybe eight or even ten guys in the world could
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29.11.2011
We're staying very close to this old man, as he stumbles through the skyscraper environment of the big city. We instantly get the feeling that he might be lost, which we will find out to be true in more than one aspect. Furthermore: It is exactly what we are supposed to feel at this moment, and
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28.11.2011
A young man is being carted through an old hospital floor. His eyes flicker weirdly, and there are shaved spots on his head. The soundtrack brims with classic 50s style Hammer horror music – a rustling recording of electronically distorted strings and what sounds like a ghost singing an aria
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28.11.2011
When and how did you decide to become a filmmaker? If I had to reduce it to a single moment I would say: When I realised my first short films in New York. My mother had given me the opportunity to spend some time there and attend some filmmaking classes. I had wanted to become an actress,
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25.11.2011
Making an animation short with a string puppet protagonist but using only chalkboard or stop motion animation (and no string puppet animation whatsoever) may be the ultimate irony. It may also be an indicator that this is not a string puppet in order to be moved by strings, but because of the
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24.11.2011
It's a neat trick when introducing an unreliable narrator to not reveal that he is a narrator at all. The 25-minute-short GUIDED TOUR, written and directed by Benjamin Freidenberg, starts out as an essay film, a thoughtful exploration of being a stranger in a strange land, of the anticipations
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