Blink of an Eye: Long Shorts/Short Longs
Each year we stipulate 15 minutes as our maximum length for short film. However, we saw some impressive 'longer shorts' this year and invited them to screen with us. So here's four films that tell their stories well but need just that little bit longer, for a short. Enjoy!
ARCADIA
Dir. by Adam Butcher, 17mins, UK, 2008
A surreal drama of dark comedy and intrigue, in a fully realised cardboard city-world. Keith's computer has started talking back. Clarence, who he shares an office with, is writing a Second Bible. There are noises in the ducts these days. Clarence reassures us that, 'Soon, everything will be different'.
AFTERVILLE
Dir. by Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro, 27mins, Italy, 2008
The lives of a group of people is documented as they await humanity's demise. Signs of a mysterious happening from the past alter the Turin skyline as the countdown continues.
DO IT
Dir. by Steve Petersen 25mins, USA, 2008
In a gritty and visually stylized backdrop of Los Angeles, Bernie, a lowly pharmacy clerk, decides he can make everything better if he can kill the mayor. The only thing standing in Bernie's way is himself. He has 3 days to build up the courage to... do it.
SOULMATES
Dir. by Tom Flynn, 19mins, USA, 2008
A fledgling couples' therapist must rely upon his shoddy couples therapy skills in order to survive a blind date with a crazy old witch.