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Thursday, Sept 3 at 9:00pm Total Runtime: 156 mins Location: Movie Cafe Kehl Dots / USA (Directed by Beth Tsai) 3 mins / 2008 - Life is flustered, life is cyclical, coming round again, never quite in the same place. A Chronicle of Concrete / USA (Directed by Tanya Sleiman, Stanford University Grad Student) 6 mins - 2008 - Tracing cement from its birth deep in the bowels of the earth, this visual essay takes a fresh look at cement, transforming an otherwise ordinary part of our world that is so ubiquitous, we almost don't see it. Time / Canada (Directed by Kwan Ho Tse) 4 mins - 2008 - The face of Toronto for the past hundred years compressed into 3 minutes, as we travel through Time. Totenwache (The Wake) / Germany (Directed by Gregor Hoeppner, 1st Project) 11 mins - 2008 - In the dimly lit living room of a farmhouse, the body of a young man is laid out. (Dans la salon sombre d'une ferme, le corps d'un jeune homme est etale.) Fin / Netherlands (Directed by Asaf Ben-Yehuda) 22 mins - 2009 - The story is about a girl who is naive and happy, the girl suddenly gets an illness that is caused by wrong brain functions, she wants to get rid of her illness at all cost, since she cannot live with the disability, there is also a thought of suicide before this all happens, in which she says that if she would ever have to end her life, saying half seriously she would do it at a full moon night and a morning orange sunrise, describing the beauty of nature. Premiere / France (Directed by Julie Mai) 7 mins - 2009 - He accomplishes the illegal assignments for bonus points. Journalist Heppler (Doreen Dietel) is collecting evidence and suddenly becomes a mission target herself. Poem / USA (Directed by Maia Sorensen & Brandon Jacobs-Mills) 7 mins - 2007 - Poem is a 6 minute duet by two women, whose relationship is explored through their body language and by the observant eye of the camera. The contrast of the two media, dance and film, merge into a dream scape urging the viewer to enter a mysterious, dark, and poignantly charged world. - French/German Premiere Portal / USA (Directed by John Bush) 8 mins - 2008 - PORTAL, choreographed by Nadine Helstroffer, was filmed during Christo and Jeanne Claude's installation, The Gates, in Central Park, New York City. In a landscape muffled by snow and lit by saffron-colored portals, three dancers stir in the wind - emerging, dissolving, morphing into the breath of winter. - German Premiere Wall Taps / USA (Directed by Carol Jacobsen) 10 mins - 2009 The Adventure of a Worm: A Short Tribute to Mr Aleister Crowley, The Magus / Czech Republic (Directed by Richard Pecha) 3 mins - 2008 - Animated Experimental Near the Egress / USA (Directed by Antonio Martinez) 5 mins - 2008 - Over 800 tintypes, produced in stop-motion time, capture the sublimity and spectacle of the modern circus. The Last Dragon Kingdom / Bhutan/USA (Directed by Aine Carey/David Emery) 7 mins - 2009 - We have created a short film which is a visual "meditation" on Bhutan; the land, its people, and the impact of the changes that are occurring there. 15 minute intermission Corridors of Echoes / Japan, USA/USA (Directed by Tatsushi Tahara) 9 mins - 2008 - An experimental ghost film shot in Japan. Work that exercises the core essence of black and white cinematography - lights and shadows - Regional Premiere Staubkaskade (The Cascade and its Dust) / Germany (Directed by Stefan Pautze) 4 mins - 2008 - Fractals provide the mathematical tool set to describe the complex structures of nature. They even might represent one of its main principles. - Regional Premiere Panta Rhei / USA/Poland (Directed by Marcin Gizycki) 3 mins - 2008 - An improvised abstract film, painted with brushes and water, set to Jelly Roll Morton’s music. (Un film abstract et improvisé, peint avevc des pinceaus et de l'eau, montré avec la musique de Roll Morton.) - Western European Premiere Patience of the Memory/ Geduld der Erinnerung/La patience de la mémoire / Spain/Germany (Directed by Vuk Jevremovic) 7 mins - 2008 - The memory of Dresden, the city which was the most painted and destroyed in the last century. (La memoire de Dresden, la ville la plus peinte et detruite depuis une centaine d'annees.)_ - French Premiere (They Are) Hard, Wet & Synchronized / USA (Directed by Annika Kurnick) 3 mins - 2008 - An extreme gang of synchronized swimmers commandeer a local pool. (Un gang de nageuses synchronisees requisitionnent la piscine du quartier. ) - World Premiere Strasbourg International Film Festival on Facebook
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