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Inntravel Short Film Awards

26 September 2015

Run Time

89 mins

An international jury, featuring filmmakers Beatrice Gibson and Salomé Lamas alongside curator Fatos Üstek, will present Inntravel’s prestigious award following the screening.

A Distant Episode

A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking shot behind-the-scenes of a film made on the otherworldly beaches of Sidi Ifni, Morocco.
A Distant Episode depicts strange activities with no commentary or dialogue; it appears as a fragment of film, dug up in a distant future in its portrayal of a hazy black-and-white and hallucinogenic world.

Director

Country

Year

2015

Primary Contact

Ben Rivers

Duration

20 mins

5

Developed through real conversations with women who work as carers and telephone counsellors, this fictionalised account of female helpline workers chronicles the slippage that can occur in their career as they journey out of the city on a work ‘away day’. As they consider the emotional impact of the job, their experiences and interactions with each other become increasingly strange.

Director

Country

Year

2014

Primary Contact

Rehana Zaman

Duration

13 mins

I’m in Pittsburgh and it’s raining

Anecdotally, Andy Warhol once asked the Velvet Underground that the record bearing his name be inscribed with a skip during the song
“I’ll be Your Mirror.”
Listeners, faced with the endless repetition of that particular lyric, would be forced to rouse themselves and manually drive the needle onward. The group declined this request. I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining is an experimental portrait of a body double which honours Warhol’s concept in its depiction of both the act and the idea of being caught in a reflexive moment.

Director

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Year

2015

Primary Contact

Jessie McLean

Duration

15 mins

Consider the Belvedere

Drinking songs and cocktail furniture, film sets and nighttime newspapers, dream states and unconscious meanderings weave their way through the work of Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson, whose collaborations cut across film, sculpture, writing and book-making. Consider the Belvedere takes the form of a detective story shot on location at The Banff Centre and in Vancouver at the Belvedere apartment complex.

Directors

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Year

2015

Primary Contact

Julia Freyer

Duration

10 mins

From Our Own Correspondent

Set within an aggregate of hotel rooms and corridors – transposable private and professional settings – From Our Own Correspondent explores the potential for pleasure, horror and utter nothingness abundant in those spaces.

Country

Year

2015

Duration

10 mins

Sound of My Soul

Bąkowski’s own synopsis reads “animated poetic impression with author’s comment.”
It’s to the point but there’s nothing ordinary about the shapes, impositions and miracles of magnification held within his film. With a dispassionate voiceover, Bąkowski positions himself as an outsider within his own mind, but there’s poetry in his film’s daily devotions.

Director

Country

Year

2014

Primary Contact

Wojciech Bąkowski

Duration

13 mins

This Particular Nowhere – Part I – Some of Wigner’s Friends

Departing from Eugene Wigner’s thought experiment, Macedo’s film ponders the observers and the observed within a cinematic experience.
We’re embraced in sound whilst being taken to other larger and undefinable ‘beginnings’, ‘heres’ and ‘nows’ that point back to ourselves, our universe(s) and our beings.

Director

Countries

Year

2015

Primary Contact

Rita Macedo

Duration

8 mins

Actor

Rita Macedo