The 2nd Annual Big Sur International
Short Film Screening Series 2007
For Interieur
Winner of the Short Film Screening Series 2007:
For Interieur
Director: Patrick Poubel, France
Official Film Selection for the Final Night 2007:
Robota
Director: Marc Beurteaux, Canada
I’ll See You In My Dreams
Director: Miguel Angel Vivas, Portugal
Massima Punizione
Director: Filippo Macelloni, Italy
The Fan and the Flower
Director: Bill Plympton, USA
When Elvis Came to Visit
Director: Andreas Tibblin, Sweden
Bonjour Danny Bonjour
Director: Brett Shumway, USA
Copy Shop - Director: Virgil Widrich
For Interieur
Director: Patrick Poubel, France
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Thursday, June 14Who Wants to be An Amerikan
Director: Aaron Beckum, Canada
Vancouver Film School graduate Aaron Beckum through the VFS Film Production program.
The Other Celia
Director: Jon Knautz, Canada
The Other Celia follows Slim Walsh as he discovers the mysterious activities of Celia Sarton, one of his rooming house neighbors. Driven by curiosity, Slim pokes a small hole through the floor of his closet, allowing him to see into Celia’s room. Witnessing Celia preform a bizarre transformation, Slim comes to the realization that she’s unlike anyone he has ever known. He takes it upon himself to discover as much as possible about this strange being.
En Lille Død
Director: Kaspar Munk, Denmark
A bunch of kids go to a pal’s house. They’re all in their early teens on the verge of adolescence. This evening they have a supply of soft porn magazines.
Hi Maya
Director: Claudia Lorenz, Switzerland
After decades, two old ladies run into each other at the hairdresser’s. Even after so many years, the recognition is instant. So why do they deny knowing each other? Their unexpected encounter reawakens memories of their youth together and their shared past, of which they are unsure they want to be reminded.
Robota
Director: Marc Beurteaux, Canada
ROBOTA is a stop-motion animated film done entirely in Lego and Mega-blok bricks. Set in a decayed Lego underworld, ROBOTA tells the bittersweet story of a homeless robot searching for a quick fix. ROBOTA took three years to complete and used over 40 000 pieces of Lego.
We Are The Faithful
Director: Michael Koch, Switzerland
The scene is the FC Basel stadium, the actors are the team supporters and the star is Tobias Haufner, their cheerleader. His task is to make them shout, and chant in unison in order to electrify the players and lead them to the victory. When all the fans sing together, they feel high, they feel as one, involving the spectators before their screens. Isn’t that wonderful? But isn’t this exhilaration a temporary loss of awareness as well, maybe the fist step to fascism?
We are the faithful” was screened at over 40 international festivals and won several international prizes, among them the prize for the best Swiss short film
Alibi Inc.
Director: Gregoire Bedard, Canada
In this darkly comic French-language film (with English subtitles), a company that provides criminals with rock-solid alibis finds itself caught in a murderous plot that threatens to destroy its own aiding-and-abetting business.
Nominated for Golden Sheaf Award in the “Drama” category
LSD A Go Go
Director: Scott Calonico, USA
Things got a little out of hand in the late 1950s as the Central Intelligence Agency embarked upon the MK-ULTRA major drug and mind control program. The CIA proceeded to study the effects of LSD on themselves and others. This short combines public domain scare films with a brief overview of the controversy surrounding CIA scientist Frank Olson’s 1953 “suicide” in New York City. LSD A Go Go was completed on a budget of $15.00. The film made its world premiere in 2004 at Sundance.
Director: Miguel Angel Vivas, Portugal
In a village inexplicable haunted by a plague of zombies, Lucio, an honest worker, is the only person who can fight them. He has matrimonial problems and hides Ana, his adorable wife, now transformed into a horrible zombie with a violent behaviour and a bad attitude.
I’ll See You In My Dreams was produced by a crew of musicians, filmmakers and actors who call themselves O Pato Profissional Produções. They claim this to be the first Portuguese zombie movie
Copy Shop
Director: Virgil Widrich
Oscar-nominated short film about a man employed in a copy shop, who makes photocopies of himself until they fill up the entire world.
By Modern Measure
Director: Matthew Lessner, France
As part of an ongoing, unaired TV series (By Modern Measure,) an amateur French sociologist presents his observations on a day in the life of two young Americans who meet by chance outside a Taco Bell on October 08, 2006.
Invulnerable
Director: Álvaro Pastor, Spain
Elías is just beginning his career as a high school teacher and just beginning his relationship with Pedro when he finds out that he’s HIV positive. How will he tell his new lover?
Mon Amour Mon Parapluie,
Director: Giada Dobrzenska, Canada
Beautiful short about loneliness, isolation, and a lost umbrella
Le Gardien du Nid,
Director: Olivier Pesch, Luxembourg
Robert is the keeper at a fantastic hatching station. His task is to take care of six eggs. Amongst them lies a smaller egg, Ben, who doesn’t develop normally. His growth defect provokes a feeling of rejection from his kin.
For Interieur
Director: Patrick Poubel, France
The tale of a little boy named Cricket and his close grandfather, a true collector of memories who will pull off his dream of flying away in the most moving way.
Hold Up
Director: Adrien Manant, France
The main character robs a store, which turns out to be a bakery and the hold up takes an interesting turn as he begins to steal the delicacies of the bakery.
Bug Crush
Director: Carter Scott, USA
A small-town loner’s fascination with the new kid in town leads him into something much more sinister than he could ever have imagined.
A Summer Nights Rendezvous
Director: Florence Miaihe, France
A beautiful live animation film set at a midsummer night’s outdoor party in the French countryside.
Darling, Darling
Director: Matthew Lessner, USA
Harold is faced with the daunting task of picking up his date for the high school dance. Meeting your new girlfriend’s parents is never comfortable, but sometimes the event goes to unexpected levels of surreality. An awkward and flustered “everyteen” is forced to make small talk with his prom date’s bizarre father.
Thursday, July 12
In Timbuktu
Director: James Goodall, Canada
In which the last modern cowboy braves the frontier in his rusted steed
Troll Concerto
Director/Writer: Alexandre Franchi, Canada
Imagination is dead. Painters are beaten up in the street, and ballerinas are being burned at the stake. But Frida doesn’t care. Nobody will stop her from playing her music.
The Final Step
Director: Francesco Colangelo, Italy
This film follows an actress in an acting workshop when she discovers that her life is paralleling that of her character, part of the time she finds herself acting as herself and part as this character.
Full Metal Slacks
Director: Scott Calonico, USA
On August 7, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing the massive use of U.S. military force in Vietnam. Over the next ten years, over 50,000 American soldiers and 1,000,000 Vietnamese civilians would be killed. Two days later, on August 9, 1964, President Johnson ordered a pair of pants from his tailor in Dallas, Texas. This is the recording of that call.
Comme James Dean
Director: Jonathan Zaccaï, France
A budding actor trying to break out on his own, but still relies on his mother’s warm assistance.
The Shovel
Director: Nick Childs, USA
When weekender Paul Mullin discovers his neighbor digging a hole in the middle of the night, he writes it off as simply a bizarre encounter. Until the neighbor… and his cheating wife… disappear. Worried he’s stumbled upon more than he’s bargained for, he calls on the local sheriff to help unearth the truth. And finds out that, in a small town, some secrets are better left buried. David Strathairn stars.
Yours Truly
Director: Osbert Parker, USA/U.K.
‘Found’ images from magazines to movie clips are cut up, manipulated and reconstructed to create unexpected and gripping story strands that fuse into a multi-layered film – beginning as a passionate love story but ending in murder.
Bamboleho
Director: Luis Prieto, Spain
Miguel, a runaway squatting on a rooftop in Barcelona, finds his life spiraling out of control as he becomes mixed himself up with the criminal underworld.
Winner of Best Narrative award at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
Starfly
Director: Beryl Koltz, Luxembourg
After an ages-long flight, an astronaut returns to a disorienting life on Earth.
The Fan and the Flower
Director: Bill Plympton, USA
An ill fated and unconsummated romance between a fan and a flower magically creates a fairy tale ending. A very atypical Bill Plympton film. Written and produced by Dan O’Shannon, featuring the voice of Paul
Giamatti.
Humanitarian Aid
Director: Alina Sakudeanu, Romania
Lacreme Napulitane
Director: Francesco Satta, Italy
It’s Christmas Eve in Naples. The bad weather is dividing Italy in two and the journey back home to Milan for Mr. Fedrigotti, a haughty businessman, is going to be troublesome. Among his fellow travellers on the train, there is an old Neapolitan man, who keeps nagging him with silly small talk, singing songs, offering food and wine and exhibiting the giant eel he is bringing to his daughter in Milan for the traditional Christmas dinner…
The Duck Shits Back (Hinten scheißt die Ente)
Director: Sabine Michel, Germany
A brash real-estate entrepreneur gets his comeuppance from a wily farmer in the arid Lausitz area when the pair quarrel over the ownership of a shot duck.
Gorgeous Labour of Love
Director: Stacy Harrison, UK
a surreal short film set in the ruins of london, driven by contemporary music-hall libretto. It embodies key aspects of the classic gothic tale, with echos of du maurier’s trilby and the le fanu’s dark stories.The mystery of the ‘true’ nightmare of the narrative is left for the viewer to decide…
Dog Days
Director: Geoffrey de Crecy, France
Grace, the newborn of an American upper-class family, is exchanged with Doug, the little baby dog of a “white trash” American family.
Travelin’ Trains
Director: Eric Mofford, USA
The film tells the story of a young man tracking down his itinerant musician father during the Depression.
Regarding Sarah
Director: Michelle Porter, Canada
Sarah is losing her memory. In a last desperate attempt to maintain control of her life, she begins to videotape everything: from momentous events to the tiniest details of daily living. This accumulation of footage becomes too much for her to handle and she must confront the question of whether her life still has meaning if she can’t remember it.
Raymond
Director: BIF, France
Raymond, a lazy swimming-instructor, would like to discover the oceans. A team of scientists offers to help him…
BIF is a directing collective incubated within the studios of The Mill in London. It is comprised of Fabrice Le Nezet, Francois Roisin and Jules Janaud.
Marvellous, Keen Loony Bin
Director: Lizzi Akana, USA
Paints a surrealistic town where something is always missing and much is to be desired. People with no faces, arms, or legs fall into hilariously unfortunate circumstances.The Savior
Director: Peter Templeman, Australia
Malcolm is a gentle, effective door-to-door evangelist who’s in love with a married woman. With pressure mounting from his church to convert her, Malcolm decides his bible is the very weapon he needs to destroy the marriage that’s keeping him from his true love.
When Elvis Came to Visit
Director: Andreas Tibblin, Sweden
Taking place in a Stockholm suburb, this intimate film details a small, but momentous, meeting between the thirty-year old Lukas and a young immigrant boy Elvis.
Patterns (Part 1)
Director: Jamie Travis, Canada
A woman waits by the phone. A man watches a tea cup spin. Are they lovers? Yes, they are. Now let’s watch them sing and dance. A suspense thriller, a love story, a dreamscape and a musical extravaganza, The Patterns Trilogy presents, in three parts, the epic anti-romance of Michael and Pauline. (Part 2 and 3 follows)
That Old One!
Director: James Henry, Scotland
Tom wakes up, and realises he’s had a one-night-stand. As his drink-addled mind feeds him dangerous memories, his increasing anxiety fuels a paranoid imagination, until he learns a valuable lesson. This is a fast paced roller-coaster ride through the mind of a man increasingly aware of the possible implications of his infidelity, as he makes his way home the morning after the night before.
Massima Punizione (Ultimate Penalty)
Director: Filippo Macelloni, Italy
A history of violence and mechanical physics. Dedicated to those who fail penalties. Eleven metres for a life-lasting duel. The last chance to avenge 30 years of outrage…
Telerific Voodoo
Director: Paul Jadoul, Belgium
The world evolution by music supremacy.
Facts of Life
Director Susan Roether-Zsigmond, USA
Michael York stars in this sex education film, mocking the documentary style, and explores some confusing and comic aspects of the subject.
Poyraz (Boreas)
Director: Belma Bas, Turkey
Living with elderly relatives in a remote old house in the mountains the Child reticently observes the daily routine of rustic life and glimpses the mysteries of life and death.
Patterns (Part 2)
Director: Jamie Travis, Canada
Second installment: A woman waits by the phone. A man watches a tea cup spin. Are they lovers? Yes, they are. Now let’s watch them sing and dance. A suspense thriller, a love story, a dreamscape and a musical extravaganza, The Patterns Trilogy presents, in three parts, the epic anti-romance of Michael and Pauline. (Part 3 follows)
Bonjour Danny Bonjour
Director: Brett Shumway, USA
Danny is troubled by intense rage, an overbearing Mother, and lack of croquet prowess. He struggles to somehow find peace in this life, with the help of une belle French girl named Marie.
Pen Pals
Director: Art Curry, Canada
The animated story of a late night duel between a pencil and a technically superior graphic pen fighting to win the affections of a female pencil.
Get The Picture
Director: Rupert Wyatt, UK
Two war correspondents are escorted to a recently bombed town. The apparent perpetrators are about to be executed in front of a baying mob of survivors. One journalist doubts the guilt of the adolescent prisoners; the other believes they are not there to take sides but to take pictures…
Tale of How
Directors: The Blackheart Gang, France
This spectacular, bizarre and captivating storybook opera will set you on a voyage through a surreal landscape populated with tentacular sea monsters, piranha ducks and six-legged mice.
Rain is Falling
Director: Holger Ernst, Germany/Morocco
Far away in a foreign and apparently merciless world, a little girl struggles to carry water pots that are far too heavy for her. Uncomplaining, she hauls the jugs from a distant place to her sick mother in their wretched home. A moving and deeply humane story in which water plays an ambivalent role.
Patterns (Part 3)
Director: Jamie Travis, Canada
Final installment: A woman waits by the phone. A man watches a tea cup spin. Are they lovers? Yes, they are. Now let’s watch them sing and dance. A suspense thriller, a love story, a dreamscape and a musical extravaganza, The Patterns Trilogy presents, in three parts, the epic anti-romance of Michael and Pauline.
Who Makes Movies?
Director: Christopher Luccy, USA
Get the truth about Hollywood from a man with his hand on the pulse of the industry—meet Randy Palmer, fluffer.
El Viaje de Said
Director: Coke Rioboo, Spain
Said, a Moroccan boy, crosses the sea. On the other side, in the land of opportunities, he discovers that the world isn’t as beautiful as they told him it would be. Winner: Best Animated Short Film – Goya Awards, Madrid.
A special screening of last years’ finalists.
7:35 de la Manana, Director Nacho Vigalondo, Spain
Yellow Bird, Director Jessie Wallace, Canada
Charlie Noir, Director Keith Davidson, U.S.
El Gran Zambini, Director Igor Legarreta, Basque/Spain
Destino, Director Salvador Dali/Disney, USA/Spain
Harvey Krumpet, Director Adam Elliot, Australia
Binta and The Great Idea, Director Javier Fesser, Spain/Senegal. 30 min.
Series Finale
Best of Series and the Official Selections.
Starting at 7.30 PM
Pizza, Champagne, Wine, Chocolate, Raffle and Redwood Awards!
Please come to experience seven of the finest, funniest, and freakiest films this series had to offer.
Music by Rizorkestra
This special evening made possible by the generous support from:
Sierra Mar Restaurant
The Maiden Publick House
Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn
The Big Sur Bakery
