friends 2007

PAH-FEST, Christopher Coppola, ZDA
PAH-FEST, which stands for “PROJECT ACCESSIBLE HOLLYWOOD”, is a new kind of digital media festival that celebrates the stories and voices of everyday people. PAH-Fest invites people from all walks of life to tell their digital stories using today’s latest technology and pro-sumer equipment. All movies created during the festival are available in the Online Theater: www.earsxxi.com.
Address Unknown, Xiaolu GUO, KITAJSKA, 2006, 11'
From a Beijing apartment, a woman is writing postcards to a man in London. We don’t see the woman or the man, there's only the camera contemplating Beijing in a melancholy eye. Each postcard is a long static shot. The woman’s voice tells her loneliness in a rapidly changing China: highways, labour workers, meat market, people in the street… All the postcards return - address unknown. Her lover seems to have disappeared from the other side of the world. On a rainy night, she cancels her return flight to Europe.
SCHUSS!, Nicolas Rey, FRANCIJA, 2005, 123'
The film begins like a documentary film about winter sports, if a rather unusual one. But then it turns to the topic of the industrial production of aluminium. Using the examples of these surprisingly connected themes, it recalls important phases of 20th-century industrial history and raises questions about the relationship between industry and the state.
Able Edwards, Graham Robertson, ZDA, 2004, 87'
In the future, the clone of a famous entertainment mogul is created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor's corporation. In the process of restoring reality entertainment to a synthetic world, the clone realises he has yet to live as his own man.
»Orson would surely have approved.« - N. Young
The Temptations of Brother Sebastian (As Tentaçőes do Irmăo Sebastiăo), José Araújo, BRAZILIJA, 2005, 147'
This film carries all elements of a film that should be presented at Innsbruck and Izola festivals: there is this kind of silence in the dialogues and the unusual rhythm. A very slow vision of the future of Brazil in the year 2030, a period of violence.