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March 13, 2004
Shorts 5 - Extremem Shorts
Title List:
Bid ‘em In (dir. Neal Sopata)
Eden’s Wake (dir. Sarah Michelle Brown)
I Am Stamos (dir. Rob Meltzer)
I Used to be a Filmmaker (dir. Jay Rosenblatt)
I’ll Wait for the Next One (dir. Philippe Orreindy )
Inamorata (dir. Robert A. Cuadra)
The Most Beautiful Man in the World (dir. Alicia Duffy)
Prom Night (dir. Robbie Pickering)
She Kept Silent (dir. Svetlana Cvetko)
The Voice of Silence (dir. Gunnar Bergdahl)
These short films are, according to the program, all centered on extreme emotions - hate, love, betrayal, and so on. Most of them are excellent and evoke the intended emotion very effectively, but some don't work quite as well. "Bid 'em In" is an animation set to an a capella song about a slave auction and it is poignantly beautiful. "Eden's Wake" is a brutal story of love's betrayal. "I Used to be a Filmmaker" stars the director's infant daughter, already a natural actress, and is a touching portrayal of parental love. Somehow this program is able to contain both the raunchy humor of "Prom Night" and the quiet brutality of "The Voice of Silence" without too much jarring. Although the treatments vary as wildly as the emotions, this is a good collection of shorts and well worth seeing.
Posted by Ealasaid at March 13, 2004 12:03 AM
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