Day 2 of the Worldwide Short Film Festival kicked off with the screening of Who’s Your Dada programme, one of the 12 programmes in the official selection category, with 8 short films for a total of 93 minutes.
The various stories that you see unfold are diverse in nature, completely stretching the boundaries of imagination. It gives a very surreal self-reflection of the characters and the afflictions they face with varied issues of of authority, lack of ambition, existence, social life and so forth.
The main highlight of the selection for me was Edmond was a Donkey (14 minutes) a French production by Franck Dion that follows the story of Edmond who is a quiet, reticent fellow leading a simply, straightforward life. Edmond hardly ever reacts to anything good or bad and everyday seems like a mechanical, mundane routine at home and at work until a practice joke played on him by some colleagues turns his life around forever. It’s almost guaranteed that anyone with a heart and a mellow personality is sure to be touched by this animation that really engrosses you in it and may tend to overwhelm you at times.The age old issue of misuse of authority is something of a bother even today
and the Canadian production WoodCarver (6 minutes) by Ehren Bearwitness Thomas shows us exactly that. The murder of a Native man by a Seattle police officer is presented in an extraordinary manner by display of some surveillance footage that is played against a background of dubstep beats. If you’re one of those haters of dubstep just accept defeat now. You will have to come around as soon as you see how the score makes what you see so visually powerful that it sticks.A very odd and chilling piece from this selection that I found profoundly
interesting is The Twin (29 minutes) which is a Swedish production by Gustav Danielsson. It’s an eerie self-exploration of a metaphysical nature by the main character Gustav who is a passionate free diver. Because he holds his breath under water so much, it leads to him doing it unconsciously while sleeping. Gustav sees a doctor to get this “itch” in his throat checked out where he discovers that he has a “benign” tumour which he decides to ignore until the night the “tumour” decides to come out.This selection is really all kinds of weird and almost just like those crazy thoughts or odd dreams that you sometimes think or see. And now you can see it on screen in the most thought provokingly manner.
If you missed out on this screening there will be a repeat on Saturday, June 9 at 7:45PM at the Isabel Bader Theatre.
- Myra Rehman
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