Third Annual
The World According to Shorts
September 16–18, 2002 at BAMcinématek, Brooklyn, NY
Films from Spain, Belgium, Slovenia, Mexico, Poland, Germany, Romania, Burkina Faso, United Kingdom, Canada. Curated by Jonathan Howell
Program One
Salad Days
Gustavo Salmerón, Spain, 20 min., NY Premiere. A mixed salad and a trout meet in the cold storage of a restaurant, and decide to unite in a single dish.
Muno
Bouli Lanners, Belgium, 21 min., US Premiere. An assault on a young African in a rural town in Belgium leads Raphael to return to his hometown to cover the incident.
Glazier Blues
Harry Rag, Slovenia, 13 min., NY Premiere. In the glass factory at Hrastnik, Slovenia, light, form and color, machines and people combine in the poetry of industry.
Down to the Bone
René Castillo, Mexico, 11 min., animated, A man dies and finds himself in an underworld nightclub where skeletons celebrate his arrival.
A Man Thing
Slawomir Fabicki, Poland, 26 min. A thirteen-year-old boy desperately tries to keep the fact that his father beats him a secret.
Program Two
Amphibians
Boris Hars-Tschachotin, Germany, 20 min. Kuno works with preserved specimens in Berlin's natural history museum, where an unusual accident changes his perception of his job and his life.
Humanitarian Aid
Hanno Hofer, Romania, 16 min. NY Premiere. Three young men from western Europe arrive in Romania with humanitarian aid. The villagers have been expecting them.
Bintou
Fanta Régina Nacro, Burkina Faso, 29 min. In spite of her husband's objections, Bintou decides to send her daughter to school, with drastic consequences for the family.
Home Road Movies
Robert Bradbrook, U.K., 12 min., animated. The real-life story of a shy and awkward father who desperately wanted the family car to make him a better parent.
Soowitch
Jean-François Rivard, Canada, 24 min. US Premiere. After a passionate night with a strange woman, a young man is horrified to discover that he now inhabits the woman's body, and vice versa.
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