DOCUMENTARY: Seeing, Touching, Living
15:00 Sat 19 Jan 2019
Making sense of our experience is not always manageable and the cinematic form has a unique capacity to tell tales viscerally, to unwrap moments and lay them bare for us. Language is no longer the dominant mode as these films ask you to trust your senses and fall into films with more to perceive than to understand. 81’
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Access
Please find all access information here, or drop a line to Helen MacKenzie at access@shortfilms.org.uk for more information or special requests.
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CARDBOARD CITY
Richie Benson 10 mins (CU, 2017)
A sensorial exploration of the contrasting dual realities at play in present-day Havana. -
A WOMAN LIKE ME
Isabel Morales Bondy 9 mins (DK, 2017)
A deafblind Danish woman travels to Nepal to meet a woman with her same condition in the hopes of communicating and engaging in a cultural exchange. -
ABSENT WOUND
Maryam Tafakory 10 mins (Iran/UK, 2018)
The rituals of Persian warrior training, is seen in combination with the recitations of a young girl coming to terms with her impending womanhood. -
SUIT OF LIGHTS
Francisca Duran 18 mins (Canada, 2018)
An expressive documentary composed with footage of a Spanish bullfight, that iconic imagery of highly decorated masculinity and violence masked as nationalism. -
PIRATE BOYS
Pol Merchan 13 mins (Germany, 2018)
Kathy Acker's writing, and a seminal portrait of her taken by intersex photographer Del LaGrace Volcano, provide a lens through which to explore trans subjectivity and the queering of cinema. -
DARK WAVES
Ismael Joffroy Chandoutis 21 mins (France, 2017)
In an ultraconnected society where waves have almost invaded every space, three electromagnetic intolerant people bear witness of survival in a world that seems more and more inacessible to them.