Category: BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM WSXA Paris 2023

Original Film Title: 아세안은 배달의 민족

Director’s Name: KIM Tai sik, Farouk Aljoffery, Sonia Sunshine Ricafort, JUNG Young sam

Writer’s Name: David Forsythe

Producer: OH Dong Jin, JO Ha na

Country of Origin: Korea, Republic of

Language: English, Korean, Malay

Runtime: 15 minutes

Film Description:

The dictionary meaning of “Delivery” includes the meaning of childbirth in addition to transporting objects or moving people. 
In this expanded sense, we created an omnibus-style movie that contains the culture and daily life of each country by linking the three most important moments of life: birth (Malaysia), marriage (Philippines), and death (Korea).

Original Film Title: 6.14

Director’s Name: David Ian Bickley

Writer’s Name: David Forsythe

Producer: David Ian Bickley

Country of Origin: Ireland

Country of Filming: France

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes 28 seconds

Film Description:

Celebrated Irish literary photographer, John Minihan, returns to Paris, and to the locations that evoke memories of his most well known subject, the Nobel laureate, Samuel Beckett.

An intimate portrait of Samual Beckett’s relationship with his adopted home, 6.14 examines the writer’s creative bond to the city of Paris as seen through the lens of acclaimed photographer John Minihan. 
6.14 developed from two earlier films made by producer / director David Bickley—The Man Who Shot Beckett—a documentary that spearheaded RTÉ’s Beckett 100 season in 2006 and Walking for Godot (2017) made with the Paris Beckett Festival, RTÉ Arts and UCC featuring actor Adrian Dunbar. 
David Bickley undertook an arts residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in 2022 where production work on 6.14 formed the core of his stay. The title of the film is taken from the 6th and 14th arrondissements of Paris, areas where Samuel Beckett spent much of his life and where 6.14 was shot. 
In 6.14 celebrated Irish literary photographer John Minihan returns to Paris and to the locations that evoke memories of his most well known subject, Samuel Beckett. The film explores Beckett’s intimate relationship with the city and the artistic freedom it allowed him, leading to the creation of some of the greatest works of 20th century literature. Minihan acts as our guide to Paris recalling the city through his own experience and his meetings with Samuel Beckett, at once demystifying the man and exploring how essential Paris was to the creation of his art. 
The film explores the importance of place in the creation of art and the sense of freedom that living in Paris gave Beckett, a crucial factor in the genesis of some of his most famous works.

Original Film Title: Eleutheria

Director’s Name: Rolo Lauriane

Writer’s Name: Rolo Lauriane

Producer: Rolo Lauriane

Runtime: 17 minutes 31 seconds

Film Description:

Once upon a time, a long time ago, a young men stole an apple. After being left for dead by the police, a community took him in

Original Film Title: Tu piel es la galaxia

Director’s Name: Jose Domingo

Writer’s Name: Jose Domingo

Producer: Jose Domingo

Country of Origin: Spain

Country of Filming: Spain

Language: Spanish

Runtime: 24 minutes 35 seconds

Film Description:

An enigmatic sci-fi musical adventure about a being from another galaxy who comes to earth in search of love.
A hypnotic experience somewhere between z series, manga comics, superhero movies and psychedelics.

A sensory journey that makes its way through ‘Lynchian’ roads, which cross mountains created between sheets that embrace the skin and soul of the protagonist who lies helpless, turns this short film into a whole new experience for the viewer.

Original Film Title: Hippomane Mancinella

Director’s Name: Ricardo Muñoz izquierdo

Writer’s Name: Ricardo Muñoz izquierdo

Producer: Ricardo Muñoz izquierdo

Country of Origin: Colombia

Country of Filming: Colombia

Language: English

Runtime: 11 minutes

Film Description:

A man who wanders through the jungle in search of his ritual of memory, torture, and perverse imagination. He is seeking violence and the grotesque device of truth and reflection, the ironic and impossible as personal mythology, and the excessive sacred as threshold sanity.

A severed and solitary tree embodies a past and a future full of blood, impregnated with psychedelia and death. A tree is a metaphor for a world without mercy, without consolation.

Heads that travel through the imagination’s various probable worlds overflow the vision in fantastic and post-apocalyptic moments.

The diverse characters and scenes arise from visions and real, fictionalized, and violent events. Tragic and chilling anecdotes such as the story of Marino López, the farmer whose head the paramilitary groups played soccer with. A farmer from the region of Cacarica had an anonymous life and now occupies a place in Colombia’s history for the act of cruelty of which he was a victim

Original Film Title: DÉVORE

Director’s Name: Corentin Schieb, Mathias Averty

Writer’s Name: Corentin Schieb, Mathias Averty

Country of Origin: France

Country of Filming: France

Language: French

Runtime: 6 minutes 43 seconds

Film Description:

Facing the Tv, alone, a man is watching over and over several DV tapes he used to make. Memories of a woman he deeply loved seem to live again on the moving screen. Haunted by regrets, he looses himself in a devouring romance…