Short films and animation 2004
Duration: 80'
Format: Betacam SP PAL-NTSC | DVD
Madness, disability, adolescence, genetic modification are amongst the themes explored and exposed in this programme of short films. L'Alternativa Takes a Trip 4 invites you to navigate through an international selection of astute, highly personal, innovative meditations on universal issues.
SLOW START
Holland 2002 . without dialogues 7' Betacam
Director: Marc Schmidt
Synopsis: In a deserted landscape, some youngsters meet to perform a bizarre and pointless ritual.
SON OF SATAN
USA 2003 . VO 12' 35mm
Director: JJ Villard
Synopsis: Son of Satan looks into the real dark sides of kids growing up in poverty-stricken neighbourhoods, where cussing and bullying is a part of life.
VIDA, PASIÓN Y MUERTE DE JUAN PÉREZ
Argentina 2003 . without dialogues 8,30' DV
Director: Marcelo Moresi
Synopsis: The factory, the train, home. Reality cracks, readjusts and then splits even more. Juan Pérez puts the pieces together. Or is he just another piece himself?
ICH SAH ES
Germany 2003. VOSI 14,30' 16mm
Director: Hanna Nordholt i Fritz Steingrobe
Synopsis: "I think a person, a curious person, an amateur with no notion of the historical facts of the matters depicted on many of these pages...would get a lively shock.’ Charles Baudelaire, 1857, in reference to sketches and drawings by Goya.
10 AGAIN
UK 2002 . VOSE 10' Betacam
Director: Simon Ellis
Synopsis: Three prepubescent tales of unrequieted love, unattainable cool and unremarkable bras.
HISTORIA DEL DESIERTO
UK 2002 . VOSI 6' Betacam
Director: Celia Galán Julve
Synopsis: In 1962, Rosita Guzmán, alias La Mocha, escaped from prison and disappeared deep into the Mexican desert. Nothing more was ever heard of her and a legend began to grow up around this bloodthirsty figure. Forty years later, a documentary tries to find out more about this woman.
THE HOUSE
UK 2003 . VO 8,30' Betacam
Director: Vivienne Jones
Synopsis: Combining animation and live action, The House tells the story of a group of women with mental-health problems. Through the women’s own drawings, the film highlights aspects of their everyday lives, their memories of chance encounters and exclusions, their dreams and aspirations, who they are and what they have been.
CONTAMINATION
UK 2003 . without dialogues 6' Betacam
Director: Carl Stevenson
Synopsis: A glimpse ofa future where genetic modification has run out of control. This film uses a combination of 2D and 3D animation to create an atmospheric world through which the camera moves to reveal hybrid life forms.
TIMEKILLING
UK . VO 7' Betacam Colour
Director: Lela Budde
Synopsis: Timekilling is an assemblage of found footage of Westerns, in which a nurse has been inserted. The heroes can’t die a heroic death, as the nurse tends their wounds and the familiar narrative is thus disrupted.