3 Minute Wonders: Subtitles Not Included Sunday Times Culture 'Best of the Week' - These four three-minute films welcome viewers into the world of the deaf art student, photographer, director and now actress Zoe Cartwright, whose first work was part of the Shooting Party Series. Here, you are able to invent your own soundscape in the city, but hypnotism loses its power and blind dates can be a complete nightmare if you can read lips and the man you are meeting is a songwriter.
Supraman and the School of Necessity
'A charming film - beautifully directed and full of the natural optimism inherent in the Indian spirit.' Simon Beaufroy' - Oscar winning screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire
'Rarely is a short film able to take from laughter to tears - 'Supraman' genuinely amused
Our Footsteps in the Leaves Auroa Festival 2007
‘We choose the student film prizewinner [Our Footsteps in the Leaves] because it seemed to us to have a remarkable sensitivity to small and unnoticed gestures of everyday life despite a certain conventional design. Through a sophisticated use of narrative ambiguity, the film poetically expresses the substance of being young and coming of age."
‘Benjamin Sanders’ Our Footsteps in the Leaves looks like relatively traditional, if beautifully drawn, 2D animation but goes way beyond its peers by tackling complex emotion and refusing to offer a clear-cut narrative.’
Firewood
Miikka Leskinen's Firewood [is] a lovely-looking movie with a sense for the spaces of the countryside and a happy grasp of what is important about short films: less is more.’
Peter Bradshaw / The Guardian / March 9, 2007
‘The film is simple, quiet, yet beautiful. Shot in an area of natural landscapes, forming a real-life paintings that serve as a character by itself. The cinematography is full of wide spaces that the camera manages to capture but it lets the viewer focus on the events without visual distractions. Characters are everyday people, which along with the storyline give the viewer a sense of realism that keeps him hooked to the story of a girl who is in love with boy who is oblivious to her feelings. A simple yet powerful drama that manages to capture the whole sense of cinema in a short format.’
Yazan Ashqar / Jordan International Short Film Festival / Aug 18, 2007 |
