SHORT FILMS
OTHER LONGITUDES PANORAMA
ASIA
We bring a look at that eastern area and for us distant from our planet, from its experimental audiovisual production to unveil some of its singular contemporaneity. Deep and fundamental spiritualities as well as interpellations to their cultural and political traditions, or simple observations of their aesthetics, languages, bodies or daily landscapes are enunciated from various technical tools in these 7 short films of different Asian territories such as: Iran, Japan, Myanmar, Philippines and Korea.
Curator, Programmer:
Julián Medina (LED)
7 SHORT FILMS
0:57:01
RUNTIME
We have classified some of the films with the following tags:
DEBUT | OPERA PRIMA
ACADEMIC WORK | TRABAJO ACADÉMICO
WORLD PREMIERE | ESTRENO MUNDIAL
1.
The Altar
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Moe Myat May Zarchi
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Myanmar | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:10:10
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Photographic sequences painted with golds and greys animate the guilt of a childhood incident of killing an ant while washing hands in the sink. The Zen-like visuals sweep into one another with whispering monologues and glitching noises reflecting the realms of cosmos, power, guilt, prayers, and existence.
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Apple
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Sajad Yemeni
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Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:08:21
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With “Apple”, we move back and forth in the history of humanity and walk upon the border between the mythological story of Adam and Eve and the expansion of the universe. In the end, we come to a microscopic image of ourselves as human beings; But we will experience all these from the story of the apple and the apple seed.
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W E B S I T E
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Fallen Shadows At Sunset
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Hiva Amini, Mehdi Golnari
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Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:06:11
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An Iranian Girl who gets pregnant and starts to punish herself in her own way because of the strict rules of abortion in her culture.
Starts from the end and the spot she gets in the trouble…
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BOOKOLORBAR: Action
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SHON KIM
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Korea, Republic of | 2023
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Runtime/Duración 0:01:46
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BOOKOLORBAR is an Animation project to combine ‘BOOKANIMA’ and ‘Color Bar’. BOOKOLORBAR experiments BOOKOLORBAR Animation about Action.
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W E B S I T E
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The night is drunk when we suffer
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RIAN SIMON CABATINGAN MAGTAAN
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Philippines | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:06:09
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One night, a mother of five gets drunk. She then spends the rest of the evening expressing her frustrations, inhibitions, and aspirations while her poet son tells all the miseries and shared trauma that bonded them together.
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Knife, Chocolate
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Hooshmand Varaei
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Iran, Islamic Republic of | 2022
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Runtime/Duración 0:15:00
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This film is about women like Mahsa Amini who are scattered not only in Iran but all over the world.
Mahsa Amini is not just the name of a person.
Mahsa Amini does not belong to only one country.
Mahsa Amini means a group of female victims who are tried in patriarchal societies for the crime of being a woman.
Mehsa Amini means a group of brave women who swim against the tide and fight for great cultural and social changes, freedom of expression, freedom of thought and gender equality.
Mahsa Amini means a group of free-thinking women who never submit to gender discrimination and humiliation by awakening the public conscience of the society.
As an independent and concerned filmmaker and activist for women’s rights, I had the duty to narrate the dark and tragic life of women like Mahsa Amini, who are imprisoned by prejudice, violence and ignorance, by making this film.
This movie is the life story of two of these women.
Women who may be your neighbors right now.
Can’t you hear them screaming?
Women looking for life and freedom!
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W E B S I T E
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