Reel Asian board member Pablo de Ocampo is the Artistic Director of the Images Festival, and we are proud to co-present the following work at the 21st Annual Images Festival:
International Shorts Program 1:
Glimmers of Light Disappear in The Distant Shadows
Friday April 4, 2008 | 9:00 PM | Admission: PWYC (Pay What You Can)
Joseph Workman Theatre | 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington
Silhouettes and rolling seas, rain and planes drop from the sky with shaky landings. Leaves glisten and bees swarm in dark dreams and recollections. Program includes:
In A Year With 13 Deaths
Jonathan Schwartz | USA 2008 | 16mm | 3min
Light shimmering in water, rippling darkness descending, passing vistas and fluttering intervals.
Rehearsals for Retirement
Phil Solomon | USA 2008 | video | 10min
The second segment of In Memoriam Mark La Pore; a trio of works entirely composed of images culled from the video game Grand Theft Auto. A lone shadow traverses misty woods of lush green and blue and watches lightning strike and a burning hearse.
Children of Shadows
Naoyuki Tsuji | Japan 2006 | 16mm | 18min
Black and white drawings with lingering shadows of children set the stage for this dark and mysterious animation. Amidst a sparse and haunting soundtrack, teardrops mingle and mutate into fields of daisies and slow drips turn to bunnies hopping down a woman's legs.
Ring
Robert Todd | USA 2007 | 16mm | 12min
Macro darkness glistening in contrast, light dancing as fleshy pulp sparkles. This film has a foreboding soundtrack that swells and retreats with pulsating extreme close ups and quivering focus pulls.
The Beekeeper
Sara Preibsch | Sweden/UK 2007 | 35mm | 19min
A beautiful and poetic portrait of an aging beekeeper recounting his experiences while escaping Germany through the Alps on foot.
90 Years
Jonathan Schwartz | USA 2008 | 16mm | 3min
An elderly man is assisted into the cockpit of a small plane, takes off, ascends, and is surveyed from the runway, only to land once again in silence.
After the screening, there will be a reception at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre (9 Ossington Avenue @ Queen Street West), from 10pm onwards.
S is for Student
Monday April 7, 2008 | 9:00 PM | Admission: PWYC (Pay What You Can)
Joseph Workman Theatre | 1001 Queen Street West at Ossington
Reel Asian double-award winner (and 2007 Canadian Spotlight artist) Lesley Loksi Chan reps her alma mater, York University, as one of the curators of this programme featuring all student work. Korean American filmmaker Bum Lee's film Sports and Diversions (pictured left) returns to local screens as part of this programme, after making its Canadian debut last year at RA's Down The Rabbit Hole animation shorts programme.
The S is for Student programme screens separately and is not co-presented by Reel Asian.
