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Total Runtime: 90 mins
The Spirit of a School / USA (Directed by Tal Shamir) 3 mins - 2009 - The film is an historical essay on the foundation of The New School University in NYC. The film tries to capture the establishing spirit of a unique institution. The film's style challenges the borders between Surrealism, Cubism and Documentary. - World Premiere Nous Deux Encore / Greece, USA/USA (Directed by Heather Harlow) 17 mins - 2009 - Nous Deux Encore is a delightful and semi-voyeuristic glimpse into the 13 years that Maxie and Yiannis spent until Yiannis' untimely death in 1982. This extraordinary love story reveals itself through candid and unexpected photographs taken with the self-timer of an old format camera given to Yiannis as a child. (Un ancien journaliste de la television francaise nous emmene dans l'ame de l'une des plus grandes histoires d'amour jamais racontees, presentee de facon spectaculaire a travers les photos atemporelles prises par son defunt mari.) Regional Premiere Severing the Soul / USA (Directed by Barbara Klutinis) 18 mins - 2008 - Found footage interweaves an account of Rosemary Kennedy's lobotomy procedure in 1941 with an overview of the psychosurgery movement of the 1930's-1960's in the US. - French Premiere Paper Dolls - Australian Pinups of World War 2 / Australia (Directed by Angela Buckingham) 52 mins - 2008 - A documentary about the Australian women whose swimsuit photos in the 1940's uplifted the spirits of a nation at war. (Un documentaire au sujet des photos des femmes australiennes en 1940 en maillot de bain et comment ca remontait le moral des soldats en combat.) - European Premiere Strasbourg International Film Festival on Facebook
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