International Competition 03

A CHANGE FOREWARNED

• The Hideout, Thursday, 9:15PM
• The Hideout, Sunday, 2:30PM

PAPILLION D'AMOUR

BELGIAN 3:00 VIDEO
DIR Nicolas Provost
Nicolas Provost turns the shards of Rashomon's broken mirror to reflect one another and stares deep into their infinite regress, hallucinating the night-terrors of a butterfly still slumbering in its chrysalis. If romances often exult in the transformative powers of love, it is rare that they express so viscerally how much that change can horrify or hurt. -- Spencer Parsons

LOST MOTION

USA 11:06 16mm
DIR Janie Geiser
A noir-lit journey into darkness, this fractured stop motion narrative mines 40s movie atmospherics for layers of anxiety and dread. -- Anne Reecer

PERFECT SPOT

UNITED KINGDOM 14:00 VIDEO
DIR Jennet Thomas
As mundane and yet as sinister as a Sunday in the country. An elderly woman is tied by a heavy rope to her adult daughter, looking for a place to enjoy a picnic and something more. Jennet Thomas' imaginary world conveys all the horror and tenderness of the nuclear family. -- Julia Halperin

BATAILLE

BELGIUM 7:00 VIDEO
DIR Nicolas Provost
"In the violence of overcoming, in the disorder of my laughter and my sobbing, in the excess of raptures that shatter me, I seize on the similarity between a horror and a voluptuousness that goes beyond me, between an ultimate pain and an unbearable joy!" -- George Bataille "Pushes the found-footage re-mix aesthetic to new limits...so powerful I instinctually held my arm up in defense." -- Ralph McKay

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE EYE

AUSTRIA 45:00 35mm
DIR Bady Minck PROD Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu CINE Jerzy Palacz, Martin Putz, Martin Gschlacht ED Frédéric Fichefet, Anne Schroeder MUS Bernhard Fleischmann, Dr. Nachtstrom, Sainkho Namtchylak CAST Bodo Hell
A search for the secret history inscribed onto brightly-colored alpine vacation postcards, In the Beginning was the Eye mixes nostalgic longing with darker instrospection and amazing bread sculpture animation. -- Anne Reecer