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Original Film Titlel: Chilling Effects with Glacial Survival Instinct
Director’s Name: Ian Richard Laughlin
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Runtime: 5 minutes 50 seconds
Film Description:
Oil drums in various forms of dissection, a water tub, and singing kettles form key elements in Ian Laughlin’s sculptures. They are performed on by percussionist David Van Tieghem.
Original Film Titlel: Impérissable
Director’s Name: Nicolas Comte, Joe Hoster
Writer’s Name: Mathieu Châtelain
Producer: Farid Itani, Mathieu Châtelain, Nicolas Comte
Country of Origin: Switzerland
Country of Filming: Switzerland
Language: French
Runtime: 4 minutes
Film Description:
The death of a loved one is a real mourning, but also an opportunity to meet. When his father dies, Mathieu feels incomprehension and anger towards the one who decided to die and abandon him. Although he is overcome by negative thoughts, he does not want the last words addressed to his father to be filled with bitterness. He then meets a little boy: himself, at the age of eight, who still sees his father as an immortal hero. Through the eyes of the child he was, Mathieu rediscovers the undying love of a son for his father. Through this song, Mathieu finally decides to act as a messenger between this child and his hero.
Mourning is the path we take, alone and with the other versions of ourselves that lived alongside the deceased, to accept living without the person who has left us.
Original Film Titlel: Unbroken
Director’s Name: Kathy Moore
Writer’s Name: Tyler James Waters
Producer: Tyler James Waters
Country of Origin: Australia
Country of Filming: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 4 minutes 55 seconds
Film Description:
This is a story of gender discovery, a search for identity and wholeness. Unbroken is a musical drama showing the fight to become free from the bonds of society, history and shame.
Original Film Titlel: Star Dance
Director’s Name: Elvira Kalnik
Writer’s Name: Elvira Kalnik
Producer: Elvira Kalnik
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: Ukraine, United States
Language: English
Runtime: 3 minutes 28 seconds
Film Description:
Happy colorful party on a beach. Everyone dances to EDM track “Star Dance” while a singer sings the song.
Original Film Titlel: Vegan Cannibal
Director’s Name: Thomas Gauthier
Writer’s Name: Thomas Gauthier
Producer: Thomas Gauthier
Country of Origin: France
Country of Filming: France
Language: English
Runtime: 2 minutes 48 seconds
Film Description:
Groovy, sexy and bloody, Vegan Cannibal depicts a vegetable lover through his several personnalities.
Original Film Title: IN THE DARK
Director’s Name: Brandon Shirley
Writer’s Name: Jill Fulton
Producer: Brandon Shirley
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 3 minutes
Film Description:
It seems addiction has touched virtually everyone’s lives. The inspiration for IN THE DARK came as a friend was going through recovery. During this difficult journey, we can often feel lost, wondering in the dark, but together we can find a way out. The end of the video has portraits of courageous recovered addicts living life fully, they bravely offered their pictures as inspiration to others! My wish is that the video offers hope to those struggling to never ever give up and to know you are loved and there are people who want to help you find the light!
Original Film Title: This Is an Invitation
Director’s Name: jumatatu m. poe
Producer: jumatatu m. poe, Jermone Donte Beacham
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: Brazil, United States
Language: English, Portuguese
Runtime: 20 minutes 57 seconds
Film Description:
This Is an Invitation, a dance film from jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham, juggles between two choreographed duets, both filmed at dawn in outdoor locations in Mississippi (Jackson and Hazlehurst) and Bahia (Salvador and Itaparica), respectively. The two duets — Sebastião Abreu and Uostton Di Alcântara in Bahia, then jumatatu and Donte in Mississippi — are both performed and auto-documented by the respective pairs, each intentionally framing self and environment as a means to create the terms for being seen. Invitation is the latest project in jumatatu and Donte’s decade-spanning Let ‘im Move You series of performance and visual projects. Since 2009, jumatatu and Donte — with an extensive squad of collaborators — have centered their explorations of J-Sette movement and culture to explore recurring themes of intimacy, spectacle, belonging, organization, tenderness, and happiness. These performance and visual projects source J-Sette’s legacy of formatting call-and-response choreographies, social hierarchies, sensual and spectacular movement choreographies, and ornate rhythmic structures in order to activate playful and complex images of Black femininity and queer affection.
Original Film Title: Off Hiatus
Director’s Name: David LaChapelle, Kai Milla
Writer’s Name: David LaChapelle, Kai Milla
Producer: Kai Milla
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 11 minutes 40 seconds
Film Description:
All the GLITZ. All the GLAMOUR. You’ll be left GAGGING!
High end fashion photo shoots. Beautiful models. Celebrities. Designers. Creatives.
We all see the end results of these shoots in Vogue and on billboards. But what is it REALLY like behind the scenes?
This short mock-umentary gives us the humour of British global phenomenon ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ with the makings of a cult sensation ‘Spinal Tap for fashion’.
The concept is the brain child of fashion designer Kai Milla and world renowned photographer & director David Lachapelle. Its stars a collective group of creatives, including All the GLITZ. All the GLAMOUR. You’ll be left GAGGING!
High end fashion photo shoots. Beautiful models. Celebrities. Designers. Creatives.
We all see the end results of these shoots in Vogue and on billboards. But what is it REALLY like behind the scenes?
This short mock-umentary gives us the humour of British global phenomenon ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ with the makings of a cult sensation ‘Spinal Tap for fashion’.
The concept is the brain child of fashion designer Kai Milla and world renowned photographer & director David Lachapelle. Its stars a collective group of creators, including Love Connie who takes on the iconic role of luxury fashion editor.
Original Film Title: Tummyache
Director’s Name: Sasha Dulerayn
Writer’s Name: Sasha Dulerayn
Producer: Sasha Dulerayn
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
Film Description:
Misha is a recently-sober former child star living in London with his drug dealer half-sister Kate. Theodore is the youngest son of Italian prince/oligarch Santino Marquestino. After auditioning for an experimental theatre production of the Bacchae, directed by Polish immigrant Agnieszka Bezuidenhout, the two boys fall in love. Political intrigues, drug-fuelled violence and disorder unfold within London’s young elite as the myth of Dionysus irreversibly transforms their lives.
Original Film Title: Lost Cos
Director’s Name: Robin de Levita
Writer’s Name: Robin de Levita
Producer: Catriona Rubenis-Stevens, Evgeniya Radilova, Stevan Keane, Jeffrey Smith Georges, Michael Tosner
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
Film Description:
Haunted by her tortured childhood and the violent loss of the great love of her life, troubled dental assistant Eni finds escape in Los Cos, a mysterious underground club where cosplay and burlesque intertwine and heroes and villains blur the line between fantasy and reality. But when a cosplayer dressed as “Merman” shows up dead on a New Jersey beach and a mysterious stalker gets up in her DMs, Eni must confront the traumas that have shaped her life and transform herself into an altogether more formidable force.
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