World According to Shorts: Exhibition 2005

November 29–30, 2005 at BAMcinématek, Brooklyn, NY. 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Free reception for ticketholders following screening at 7:30pm Tuesday, November 29!

Program One

Belgermina: 3 x 2. A comparison/contrast of the latest from three of the most prolific and innovative short film-producing countries.

Recently 5
Jochen Kuhn, Germany, 13 min, Animation, U.S. Premiere
The protagonist visits a brothel.
Shift
Peter Keller, Germany, 15 min, N.Y. Premiere
Two machine workers share a wordless daily routine with a cash counter girl and dream...
Infierno Grande
Venditti + Hofman, Argentina, 18 min, U.S. Premiere
"Lisandro has died, the one who was going to marry Lucia..." An undefined town... Voices spread through the walls and the silence shouts out a legend, drop by drop...
More Than the World
Lautaro Nunez de Arco, Argentina, 12 min
A young hunter whose only friend is his dog falls in love with a girl during a folk party.
Flatlife
Jonas Geirnaert, Belgium, 11 min, Animation
Hanging a painting on the wall, building a house of cards, doing the laundry, and watching TV: utmost innocent and harmless actions in the daily lives of four ordinary people. But of all the bad luck, these people had to live next to each other.
Alice and Me
Micha Wald, Belgium, 19 min, N.Y. Premiere
Simon has to drive his old aunt Mala and two of her friends, Lydia and Colette, to the seaside. While driving, he argues with his girlfriend Alice over the phone. The three women slowly but surely interfere. This, of course does not solve anything...

Program Two

Beautiful North: Three half-hour films from Scandinavia, sampling the diversity of styles developing in the region.

Offside
Robert Naess, Norway, 29 min, U.S. Premiere
Stein and Ingroy have been partying non-stop since 1983 and it's starting to show. In their endless search for pills and thrills they break into Ms. Johansen's apartment, an old widow who is running a private "pharmacy" from her home. Stein insists that Ingroy should eliminate the old drug baroness in order to take over her blooming business, a task that proves a lot more complicated than expected...
The Comet
Johan Lofstedt, Sweden, 29 min, U.S. Premiere
Stockholm 1965. A man with a film camera documents the city and its inhabitants the last days before the crash of the comet. A fiction film based on documentary material from the time before the end of the world.
Ferry-Go-Round
Aleksi Salmenperä, Finland, 33 min, N.Y. Premiere
Reetta wants a man. She goes on a 24-hour cruise to find Mr. Right but finds herself in a cabin with a couple celebrating their anniversary.

The World According to Shorts