DAY#3
SATURDAY, 1 JUNE 2024 / 8PM
This screening session features 8 short films. All films are in English OR have English subtitles.​
@ Palace Central (Cinema 7), Central Park Mall (Level 3), 28 Broadway, Chippendale NSW
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Wood Dove (United States) by David Jonathan Orr
Animated video, made entirely from still images of dove feathers for a song by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
Running time: 00:04:48
Just Right (United States) by Camille Wormser
A peek inside the absurd and whimsical mind of Mel, a woman with severe OCD trying to do something new with her day.
Running time: 00:15:30
Thank you for your souvenir, UK! (United Kingdom) by Oushi Lin
This film tells the complex experience of "Chinese students" in the context of today's increasingly common transnational education. As a "one-year passer-by", the director elaborated on the embarrassing situation of today's international students wandering between "marginal people" and "internationals". It attempts to arouse people's re-examination of the transnational education system by depicting the real dilemma.
Running time: 00:03:03
Subject (Australia) by Fraser whitehead
The Subject of an inhumane scientific experiment is freed from their sensory confinement and allowed to experience the novel environment beyond.
Running time: 00:15:00
Farvæl/Goodbye (Faroe Islands) by Dawn Florinda Wall
Farvæl is a Faroese song about grief. We have all felt grief and most of us have lost someone we care about. When it hits, we often get paralyzed and have a hard time functioning. The song “Farvæl” translates the words and the mood of grief into song and with that it communicates what can be so hard to say, when we are faced with a loss. The music video compliments the song and tells the tale of a person going on the journey from the paralyzed state to slowly returning to her everyday life, despite having lost a loved one.
Running time: 00:02:55
Black Dragon (United States) by Alexander Thompson
Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Vietcong girl who harbors some very unusual powers.
Running time: 00:14:40
The middle of the garage (Canada) by Lisa Bolduc
The mysterious arrival of a huge trunk in the garage of Pierre's house turns his life upside down. At 55, with time passing too slowly and dreams gone, loneliness suddenly seems less burdensome. The strange appearance of the object became Pierre's only obsession, and the discovery of its contents, a new goal in life.
Running time: 00:13:01
Bi-Mok (Australia) by Baro Lee
After her father's disappearance at sea, a Korean-Australian girl, Soo Ji, struggles to find peace with her ailing Grandmother in a bleak steelwork town that holds few answers to her fragmented past.
Running time: 00:19:20