Category: BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM ARFF Paris 2022

Original Film Title: As before, I didn’t do anything

Director’s Name: Jinyoung Park

Writer’s Name: Jinyoung Park

Producer: Jinyoung Park

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Country of Filming: Korea, Republic of

Language: Krean, English

Runtime: 16 minutes 48 seconds

Film Description:

I experienced a death, a disease and a low point in a relationship, all around the same time. When these unbearable pains happened, I simply swallow them, unprepared, or at least I thought I did. But those memories translated into feelings and broke me into little fragments. Thelife as I knew it – relationships, memories, facial expressions and expressions – all fell apart. To be honest, I haven’t done anything about it until now. I have never tried to discuss or express it. I am still trapped in that time. Now, I intend to pull myself out of the past. I want to face myself still stuck in that time.

Park presents archives of unexpected past occurrences that happened around the same time, in separate yet similar tracks with some overlaps.

Original Film Title: שדרות כיסופים

Director’s Name: Noga Dekel

Writer’s Name: Noga Dekel

Producer’s Name: Eva Dekel

Country of Origin: Israel

Country of Filming: Israel

Language: French, Hebrew

Runtime: 20 minutes 18 seconds

Film Description:

A casual encounter on Tinder between Michal – a film student, and Alex – a local guy from Sderot, takes an unexpected turn, while the two embark on a poetic journey between Sderot and Paris.

Original Film Title: Hearts Survive

Director’s Name: Shawn Button

Writer’s Name: Shawn Button

Producer’s Name: Shawn Button

Country of Origin: USA

Country of Filming: USA

Language: English

Runtime: 9 minutes 35 seconds

Film Description:

A mosquito’s quest for water becomes a divine discovery of the abundance that surrounds it. When water is not available and vitality becomes essential it embarks on a pursuit for life where it comes across the nature of duality that holds a key to a new dimension

Original Film Title: Endless Summer

Director’s Name: Roman Villevoye

Writer’s Name: Roman Villevoye

Producer’s Name: Roman Villevoye

Country of Origin: Netherlands

Country of Filming: Netherlands

Language: No Dialog

Runtime: 2 minutes 12 seconds

Film Description:

STUDIO SELVEDGE made the fashion film trying to capture that feeling of endless summer where you feel limitless happiness with your friends. Nothing but good is before you. And after a dark, doomed covid-19 winter this felt like a message of hope and happiness.
STUDIO HEEY is a fun, gender-free and colorful brand that focusses on expressing oneself through Jewellery and Apparel. Playful while lightly addressing modern day issues and questions. We strongly believe in equality, inclusion, love & being happy! Most products are made of Recycled Perspex and textiles.

Original Film Title: Peekaboo

Director’s Name: Shreenika Ramani

Writer’s Name: Shreenika Ramani

Producer’s Name: Ken McDonnell

Country of Origin: Germany

Country of Filming: Germany

Language: German

Runtime: 10 minutes

Film Description:

Sarah threads the world in chains till she realises herself through love.

Inspired by the classic Beauty And the Beast, the dance drama evokes the universal truth of social resistance in the face of originality and journeys alongside Her pursuit of freedom.

Original Film Title: 寶貝母親_B-side

Director’s Name: Han-Ling Chuang

Writer’s Name: Han-Ling Chuang

Producer’s Name: Han-Ling Chuang

Country of Origin: Taiwan

Country of Filming: Taiwan

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Runtime: 11 minutes 44 seconds

Film Description:

“Darling Mother: Multiperspectivity“ is a feminist-dance theater-participatory performance. The film discusses motherhood and how a woman is formed when conforming to social structure.

The meaning of B-side can be associated with the words ‘beside’ or ‘besides’, as well as referring to the B-side of a cassette tape. A cassette has two sides. Side A and Side B. The A side of a cassette has the main content. The B-side of the cassette is often never listened to. This film explores the B-side. An experimental and documentary approach is utilized to reveal the easily overlooked aspects.

Original Film Title: Cheer Up It’s Christmas

Director’s Name: Preya Hirji

Writer’s Name: Preya Hirji

Producer’s Name: Sonia Amini

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Country of Filming: United Kingdom

Language: English

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

A story of a girl who loses the love of her life on Christmas Eve.

Original Film Title: JUNE

Director’s Name: Dwayne Cameron

Writer’s Name: Dwayne Cameron

Producer’s Name: Dwayne Cameron, Sarah James

Country of Origin: New Zealand

Country of Filming: New Zealand

Language: English

Runtime: 14 minutes 54 seconds

Film Description:

June is a story about the fragility of life; the primal forces that drive and control us and the mystery of hope and new beginnings. Willow and David receive a serious diagnosis from their doctor and attempt to deal with the mundane as their world disintegrates in the following 24 hours. This one day in June for the couple holds raw despair, unleashing carnal natures but a transcendent occurrence offers them the hope of new life.

Original Film Title: Bath

Director’s Name: Roma Glova

Writer’s Name: Roma Glova

Producer’s Name: Roma Glova

Country of Origin: Russian Federation

Country of Filming: Russian Federation

Language: English

Runtime: 1 minute 54 seconds

Film Description:

There’s something behind the curtains

Original Film Title: The Moon Child

Director’s Name: Sanna Allsopp

Writer’s Name: Sanna Allsopp

Producer’s Name: Sanna Allsopp, Meredith Ostrom

Country of Origin: Barbados

Country of Filming: Barbados

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes 8 seconds

Film Description:

Ara, a young bedridden girl is trapped in her room. The nights are easier for her as the moon gives her comfort and revives her. She reads as much as she can and wants to learn about her Caribbean history and religion. One night a lunar visitor helps her transcend her physical bonds and find the answers she so desperately needs. This film explores the themes of religion, slavery and freedom of choice.