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Apocalypse After

Ultra Pulpe

An abandoned seaside resort. The end of shooting a fantasy film about the end of the world. Apocalypse and Joy, two women involved in the movie, one an actor, the other the director, are about to end their relationship.

To delay Apocalypse’s departure and their last goodbye, Joy, the oldest of the two, tells her lover five dark stories. Five stories about women who don’t want to grow old. Five adventures in which science fiction, vulgarity, necrophilia, and poetry play a part.

Director

Country

Year

2018

Premiere

Dialogue Language

French

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Louise Rinaldi

Duration

37 mins

Distributor

Louise Rinaldi

Pool Party Pilot Episode

Pool Party Pilot Episode shows a speculative vision taking cues from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel Herland and Elaine Morgan’s aquatic ape hypothesis, particularly parts where the authors describe male fears of their surroundings. Herland describes the encounter of three men with an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The aquatic ape hypothesis aims to redress traditional evolutionary theories by focusing on the evolution of female bodies. —Hardeep Pandhal

Director

Country

Year

2018

Premiere

Primary Contact

Hardeep Pandhal

Duration

9 mins

Man in the Well

JING LI DE REN

Hu Bo’s posthumously-released short film Man in the Well was produced at the FIRST International Film Festival in Xining, China. Supervised by Béla Tarr, the seminar’s theme was ‘Apocalypse’, and Hu Bo succeeds in delivering a stark, atmospheric vision of end times that stacks up against the Hungarian auteur’s bleakest moments.

Man in the Well follows two starving kids, digging through the rubble of an abandoned building. Their survival impulse apparent, the duo also have something of a destructive streak, recalling both visually and in temperament the brutal gang of anoraked children in Shuji Terayama’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup. With an economy of means and a looming weight, the film ends with a disappearance, its young protagonists covered in blood and staring off into the middle distance. Much is left unspoken and any shred of innocence that could have remained until now is gone. —Herb Shellenberger & Becca Voelcker

Director

Country

Year

2018

Premiere

Dialogue Language

Mandarin

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Xu Jing

Duration

16 mins

Distributor

Xu Jing

The Glorious Acceptance of Nicolas Chauvin

Le Discours d’acceptation glorieux de Nicolas Chauvin

While accepting a lifetime achievement award, Nicolas Chauvin—farmer-soldier, veteran of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and the father of chauvinism—launches into a grand monologue reflecting on his life, sending him back in time and space…until, at a bend on a moonlit road, an encounter with a spectral figure will change his (non-)existence forever. —Benjamin Crotty

Director

Country

Year

2018

Premiere

Dialogue Language

French

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Benjamin Crotty

Duration

26 mins

Producer

Judith Lou Levy Eve Robin

Cinematographer

Sean Price Williams

Other

Xuan Lan Hoang Soone Nicolas Brosseau Jessie Jeffrey Dunn

Production designer

Nicolas Lefebvre

Editor

Ael Dallier Vega

Sound design

Florent Castellani Charlotte Butrak Bruno Ehlinger

Costume design

Pauline Jaquard

Music composer

Ragnar Arni Agustsson