kurz & knapp // Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

Who Are We?

On the 23rd of June 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. John Smith reworks material from the BBC television show “Question Time” transmitted a few weeks earlier. This remixed edition reveals the now normalised extremism within our society and today's political discourse.

Großbritannien
00:03:38
Director: John Smith
Languages: en
Year: 2016
Website

Women Acting like Dictators

Part four of the short film serial by Marion Pfaus investigates iconographies of dictators. We encounter well known scenarios such as parades, marches, war- and factory visits, as well as weapon testing.

Deutschland
00:03:15
Director: Marion Pfaus
Music: YouTube
Year: 2017
Website
German Premiere

Love and Revolution

Peculiar forms of "normality" emerge within a 40-years dictatorship. In such an environment, resistance is manifested in unexpected forms. The depiction of sexuality under dictatorship in the oeuvre of Milan Kundera is set against archive material and the filmmaker's personal recollections.

Österreich
00:03:44
Director: Gabriel Tempea
Production: Gabriel Tempea
Photography: Gabriel Tempea
Editing: Gabriel Tempea
Music: Stan Rams
Sound: Gabriel Tempea
Languages: de
Subtitles: en
Year: 2017

Life

Digital life without any social interaction. An increasing dreariness. A life, in which no one dares to look up any more.

Deutschland
00:03:09
Director: Lorenz Vetter
Year: 2016
Website

Happetizer

A towel is just about the most useful thing any interstellar Hitch-hiker can carry. More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. This is a comment on the hyper-emotional video messages of the selfie-culture.

Österreich
00:00:25
Director: Vera Sebert
Year: 2016
Website

Eight-hour Day

The artist Björn Perborg investigates why there is never enough time for those things most of us consider important. Like for instance work, school or love and family life.

Schweden
00:03:00
Director: Björn Perborg
Languages: en
Year: 2017
German Premiere

Extrapolate

In this animation a line is extrapolated through a grid. After going beyond the grid’s boundaries, the process continues to its surroundings, gradually causing deformation in a systematic but speculative way.

Niederlande
00:02:00
Director: Johan Rijpma
Year: 2016

OS Love

A young woman seeks spirituality and tranquillity in the web. Bit by bit she dives into the absurd realm of screen savers and desktop backgrounds until merging with the uncanny operating system named "OS Love“.

Schweiz
00:06:00
Director: Luc Gut
Production: Marcel Derek Ramsay
Photography: Marco Barberi
Music: Murat Ombombe
Sound: Peter Bräker
Languages: de
Year: 2016
Website

Museumswärter

A glimpse into the unknown aspects of everyday life: What do the employees in a museum do when they assume no one watches? A snapshot

Österreich
00:03:00
Director: Alexander Gratzer
Languages: en
Year: 2016
German Premiere

A Friend

A constructive abstract short film about something cold and distant turning into warm and friendly. It’s a kinetic folk song. Hooray to Lis Rhodes and Donovan.

Finnland
00:02:22
Director: Pekka Sassi
Year: 2016

Frankfurt, I See Red.

The two filmmakers encounter the city in search of the color red and paint a humoristic portrait of our everyday surrounding.

Deutschland
00:03:00
Director: Katrin Dittmayer, Stella Schimmele
Languages: de
Year: 2017

Where the Ram Stands

I took my jacket, a compass, and a backpack with what was needed. What I wrote on the road was not intended for readers. When I go, a bison goes. When I rest, a mountain rests. (from "Of Walking in Ice", Werner Herzog, 1974)

Deutschland
00:03:00
Director: Carsten Knoop, Dorit Kiesewetter
Production: Carsten Knoop, Dorit Kiesewetter
Photography: Dorit Kiesewetter
Editing: Dorit Kiesewetter, Carsten Knoop
Music: The Werner Bros.
Sound: Dorit Kiesewetter, Carsten Knoop
Languages: de
Subtitles: en
Year: 2017

Grid Corrections

Since the Land Ordinance of 1785 which first started mapping the United States of America, much of the country is divided into a grid system that form squares. Nowadays many roads follow this grid and all 38 km is an intersection with roads that are slightly offset for no apparent reason.

Niederlande
00:02:00
Director: Gerco de Ruijter, Michel Banabila
Year: 2016
German Premiere

Nature Boys

Three guys are running through a forest in Berlin.

Deutschland
00:01:50
Director: Andreas Boschmann
Production: Joshua Domnick
Photography: Vincent Engel
Editing: Federico Neri
Sound: Robert Niemeyer
Year: 2017

Hypertrain

A personal perspective on the filmmakers experiences in the vastness of the World Wide Web: the feeling of losing your identity, irritating timelessness, leaving traces, being monitored, finding yourself.

Schweiz
00:03:35
Director: Etienne Kompis, Fela Bellotto
Production: Jürgen Haas, Gerd Gockell
Photography: Etienne Kompis, Fela Bellotto
Editing: Etienne Kompis, Fela Bellotto
Music: Janos Mijnssen
Sound: Loïc Kreyden, Christof Steinmann
Year: 2016
Website

Identity Parade

A Film made by remixing and manipulating archival footage from various public domain film sources to create a new fiction. Who is hiding behind which mask?

Spanien
00:04:18
Director: Gerard Freixes Ribera
Production: Gerard Freixes-Ribera
Editing: Gerard Freixes-Ribera
Sound: Xevi Estudi
Languages: en
Year: 2017
Website

:(:

A poetic experiment with body parts and emotions.

Deutschland
00:04:48
Director: Zeljko Vidovic
Sound: Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland
song fragmente von 15-15
Languages: de
Year: 2017
Website

Tasman Hates the Beach

Why would anyone want to go to the beach during the day? Tasman shares his disdain for beach culture over bleak and grainy Manitoba interlake landscapes.

Kanada
00:03:20
Director: Karen Asmundson
Production: Karen Asmundson
Photography: Jaimz Asmundson
Editing: Jaimz Asmundson
Music: Karen Asmundson
Languages: en
Year: 2016
Website

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