Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2010
From Short Films to feature _lm debut! Here are the beginnings of success.
Nominated for 5 categories at this year’s Academy Awards® and starring George Clooney,“ Up in the Air,”was directed by Jason Reitman who won the Audience Award” at the Short Shorts Film Festival in 2001. There have been other directors, then unknown from our past festivals, who have gone on to feature film debuts. We will screen again their “stepping stone” short films. Can you recognize their singular talents?
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June 11th Fri | TOHO CINEMAS Roppongi Hills Screen-6 | 25:00 - 26:50 |
| June 16th Wed | Brillia Short Shorts Theater | 10:45 - 12:35 | |
| June 20th Sun | Laforet Museum Harajuku | 15:30 - 17:20 |
When Robert dies and learns he hasn't scored enough, good deeds to get into heaven, he escapes purgatory and takes the game into overtime. But even making amends with his girlfriend, his dad, and his parakeet might not win him admission to paradise.
After the air conditioner breaks down, a family decides to use their deceased grandmother's electric fan. When the fan starts moving mysteriously, the father understands that his mother is trying to tell him something.
Throughout the island, different individuals are engaged in varying day-to-day activities caught up in their own thoughts; but they are all connected. In D.I.Y., the squeak of dirty plates, the tap of a finger against a seafood restaurant aquarium, the thump of feet inside a cargo lift all come together into a quirky and funky piece of beat science, a human and humane music.
London, summer 1978. Peter is drawn to classmate Georgia who ignores him in class. At a local record shop to buy the new Buzzcocks single "Love You More", Peter gets the last copy. Georgia comes in looking for the same record. She invites him to listen to it at her home...
A family history is being recreated in individual spaces, as the languid yet mesmerizing camera glides through the ancestral home of a Thai Chinese director. A nostalgic cinematic tour of the past, and a moving meditation on time, set to the music of Bach.
Adam buys a cloning machine on ebay and clones himself. He hopes his clones will tidy his place up but he soon discovers they are just as lazy as he is. Despite their modest budget of ￡4000 the producers used sophisticated technology to create Adam's clones with a motion control camera rig and effects software called Shake.
Mori Tanaka is sent to Australia from Japan to oversee his uncle's funeral and return with his ashes. However he soon finds that his uncle's last wishes conflict with that of his family. Torn between two cultures and the emotional baggage left behind by an uncle he never knew, Mori discovers that love has no boundaries. There was no script for Tanaka, only a two page scene breakdown. The film was entirely improvised, mostly by non-actors.
