Category: Best Film Score & Sound Design – 2024 ARFF PARIS

Original Film Title: Paris-BreathlessWeekend

Director’s Name: Neil Harvey, Jon Hammerbeck

Writer’s Name: Neil Harvey, Jon Hammerbeck

Producer: Neil Harvey, Jon Hammerbeck

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 12 minutes

Film Description:

“Nous sommes toujourealistically speaking for this film is about an hourglass houseboat.
The full meaning of Winchester Cathedral defies description.”
They meet in 1975 at KSDT, a student radio station in California. Within months they transform the tight Top 40 station to Free Form, very free form.
They make radio art and experimental 16mm films asking what is art and what isn’t. Upon graduation they begin an audio correspondence on cassettes.
Forty years later they reunite in Paris. But on arrival, they learn iconic hero filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has died. In the spirit of Godard, they hit the streets with camera’s and microphones. Cubist, surrealist, Dada. Picasso said that as a child he learned how to paint as an adult but as an adult he succeeded at painting like a child. Voices of Jean-Luc Godard, Henry Miller, John Lennon, Terrence McKenna, Cynthia Bourgeault and a host of others. “You Don’t Make a Movie, The Movie Makes You.” – Jean-Luc Godard

Original Film Title: What a Day

Director’s Name: Zihan Cheng

Writer’s Name: Zihan Cheng

Producer: Zihan Cheng

Country of Origin: Thailand

Country of Filming: Thailand

Language: English

Runtime: 4 minutes 39 seconds

Film Description:

Our world is busy, lonely, and exhausting.

It is so common for us to go through a rough day, come home and lay on our bed with tears and sweats, then simply complain to ourselves, “ugh, what a day”.

Have you ever thought about, what if everyday in your life is considered a “what a day” does it mean that it eventually piles up and results in an unfulfilling, frustrating, tiring life?

Sometimes, we all feel like we need a big change, or to simply give up. But giving up also means to give up all the colorful, intriguing elements around you. However, simultaneously those colors might also be the roots for our sadness in the first place.

Should we choose to live in the moment, or to look at the big picture? Should we complain about life for the energy it sucks away from us, or to only appreciate the colors within? This animation I made serves as an exploration of those concepts, and hopefully can guide you into making your own decision.

Original Film Title: Fellini Mastorna…a film of no return

Director’s Name: Jennifer Glee Foley

Writer’s Name: Federico Wardal

Producer: Jennifer Glee Foley

Country of Origin: United States

Country of Filming: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 25 minutes 6 seconds

Film Description:

Legendary Italian Filmmaker Federico Fellini never made a film he had been commissioned to do in the 1960’s entitled ‘The Journey of G. Mastorna.’ The new short film ‘Fellini Mastorna…a film of no return’ finds Fellini’s actor muse Federico Wardal as the Fortune Teller/Ghost as well as the young actor who is mute and vulnerable and new. The film is a new, fresh tribute to Fellini . It is made in the United States and has an international resonance with the constant attempts within the manifestation of Self and Mask to penetrate to what is, is not, could be, couldn’t be or could be both or even more.

The film is its own ‘vision,’ its own ‘projection’ of the Self, the Mask, the Person, and the Mirror. The Mirror is ever-present, it penetrates the Camera, it is dangerous, as it was for Dorian Gray, Narcissus, and all who have looked into it and seen their ‘own image…covered by the Actor’s Mask…But the mirror is behind the mask and shows his (their) true face…’ –Carl Gustav Jung in _’Archetypes and the collective unconscious.’

The ‘invisible’ governs ‘Fellini Mastorna…a film of no return;’ it is the ‘mystery’ behind the movie. Its music is other-worldly, suggestive of other realms that are not within reach in the diurnal. The silent film tableau brings the film into the discussion of the Avantgarde in cinema; even the camera in the film belonged to silent film star Rudolph Valentino.

Original Film Title: FRAME

Director’s Name: JP Charlebois, MYRAI

Writer’s Name: JP Charlebois, MYRAI, Max Desmond, Alice Messier

Producer: JP Charlebois, Patrick DesRosiers

Country of Origin: Canada

Country of Filming: Canada

Language: English

Runtime: 1 hour 4 minutes 23 seconds

Film Description:

Charles is a renowned photographer who has worked with the best, made his mark and who now works in his own photography studio that doubles as his apartment. All seems well, but something is missing. A craving he can’t satiate nor comprehend, which will inevitably take a toll on his morals, work ethics and sanity, without sparing those who have the misfortune of crossing his path.