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international short film festival stralsund

16 august 02 -- speicher 9 -- 17:00
> film special II: mind games
presents etraxordinary films beyound the competition programme


01 Wie ich ein Hölenmaler wurde
Jan Peters
16 mm 40' Germany 2001


02 Shooter
Beate Geissler, Oliver Sann
DV 16' Germany 2000/01




16 august 02 -- speicher 9-- 20.30
> screening of the competition programme

Students of film and art schools and professional filmmakers of all genres were invited to send their newly produced short films (max. 20 minutes) to the festival. The preselected films will be presented to an audience which, at the end of the festival, will choose the audience prize worth 250 EUR. Additionally, three other prizes worth 1.000 EUR in total will be awarded by an experts’ jury.


F i r s t  B l o c k / play time: 64’10’’

01 Der neue Hit
Andreas and Wolfgang Samland
16 mm 8' Germany 2000


A nutty sales rep. is supposed to sell a new, spectacular toy doll, to the toy company TOI-TOI-TOI. As he sets off he runs into the big boss’s secretary.


02 Les Doubres in the real city
Laurent Vincente, Thomas Bernardet
VHS, DV, DVD 3' France 2001

Grind, slide, leap: this is skateboarding going on here. Boardless skateboarding, objectless skating, no special place anymore, just everyday places like you and me.


03 Gamblers Like Us
Grzegorz Pacek
Beta 17' Poland 2000

Polish gamblers talk about themselves. We have here old hands, who have lost fortunes and small-time players who deprive their familiy of the unemployment dole and young boys who play on slotting machines, but have the same problems as their older friends. It is a searing study of addiction.


04 Pong 2000
Christophe Blanc
DV 2' France 2001

The first game of our digital century.

and
Invaders
Christophe Blanc
DV 7'10'' France 2002

Me and pieces of me, in a series of old school videogames.


05 Waldluft (Forest Air)
Markus F. Adrian
VHS 8' Germany 2001/02


What happens, when you wake up in the morning, tight to a tree?


06 Mein Wille geschehe (My Will Be Done)
Jochen Bomm, Andrea Hiller, Sebastian Witt, Philipp Orgassa
Beta 3' Germany 2001


He’s fifty years old and has worked his whole life. Now that he’s finished, he wants to dance. And so he dances until a mosquito wants to join.


07 Stiller Ozean (silent ocean)
Florian Cossen
Beta 12' Germany 2002


An old man enters the café. Once a year, on his birthday, he comes here, is greeted by the waiter, is served his espresso as usual. It is the day his son has visited for five years. This time will be the last.


08 Die Heimkehr des Kriegers (The Return of the Warriors)
Dominik Schunk
35 mm 11' Germany 2001


Three old warhorses, mutants, tins and a Stalin organ. A waiter, a periscope and two women. The touching as well as bizarre story of Rolf and his friends takes us into a world where people moping about are hanged and where abysses open up you’ve never expected.


S e c o n d  B l o c k / play time: 57:06

09 Ruleta
Roberto Santiago
35 mm 12' Spain 1999


A group of housewives meet in a kitchen to drink coffee and discuss the latest supermarket offers, while passing a Smith & Wesson calibre 38 special handgun around.


10 Matchbox
Ulu Braun Beta
3'40'' Germany 2001


A tiny Jeep is entering the world of white, wild “Matchbox Country” and passing rather strange sceneries, by leaving works up side down.


11 Pornstar
Rhian Hinkley, Bruce Gladwin
VHS 11' Australia 2002


The story of the romantic seduction of a right-wing middle aged, ultra conservative housewife by a lesbian director of erotic films.


12 Game Over
Spazzco Animation
Beta 5' USA 2002


The obsessed Wendell is sucked into his favourite video game. It’s up to his dimwitted dog Wuggums to learn how to wield a joystick and save the day. Can Wuggums do battle against the bonus level bosses in the hardest video game ever?


13 IQC - 478B
Vlatka Horvat
VHS 4'24'' USA 2001


A plain white box is the product being sold. A presenter demonstrates the various features of the product while a narrator tries to keep up with the demonstrations. In the end the question emerges: who or what exactly is being sold?


14 Nothing Special
Jean Fabien Barrois, Benoît Janke, Oliver Petit
35mm 4'32'' France 2001


Do you know Mondrian, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Nam June Paik? Have you ever visited the Guggenheim museum??


15 Weakly
Yvonne Brandl
16mm 6'58'' Germany 2002


Maximiliane, called Max, takes weakly the same train, always without a ticket. Usually the plan is simple, only this time she discovers the insecure looking René, whom she likes at once. All of the sudden her enterprise is in danger.


16 Stapelfahrer Klaus - Der erste Arbeitstag (Forklift Driver Klaus - The First Day of Work)
Jörg Wagner, Stefan Prehn
35 mm 9'30'' Germany 2001


Klaus has just passed his driving test for forklifts. But his first day on the job turns out to be the real challenge. Cruel but informative accidents happen.Only few survive the bloodshed. An homage to industrial safety educational films.


T h i r d   B l o c k / play time: 41:44

17 Der Pilot (The Pilot)
Oliver Seiter
35mm, Beta 6' Germany 2000


He has a dangerous job. His task goes beyond the limits of our imagination. And yet we don’t know anything of his existence. He is a pilot.


18 Hans im Glück (Lucky Hans)
Gudrun Winter
DV 12' Germany 2001


Which role does money play in my life? What if you win 5 millions or lose everything you have? A documentation of luck in everyday life.


19 Anti Fliessen (Anti Streaming)
Yanick Fournier
VHS 4' Germany 2001

A man stands against the crowd and is not to be moved.


20 Hinten scheißt die Ente
Sabine Michel
VHS 13' Germany 2001


The vastness of the Lausitz land at the beginning of this century. After the coalmines tore open their land, they are now supposed to give way to the lakes and golfing courses of the new urban owners.
But the farmer families Beutel and Jockel don’t play golf - a Lausitz western.


21 Kung-fu master
Pedro
VHS, DV 1'44'' France 2001/02

What a wonderful world.


22 Entinen Mies
Lale Nalpantogen
35mm 5' Germany 2001


A tea dance in the open air: a whole group of elderly ladies is sitting on a terrace and listening to the sounds of the organ. They seem to like the music, but unfortunately there are no dancing partners at hand. Although they made themselves especially pretty. Things can’t go on like this. One of the ladies reaches for the receiver. A heavenly story about love…