FGFF shorts
Here is a list of shorts as selected for the FG Film Festival that started in January 2016 (an informal online festival on the Film General forum of IMDb), the idea was to bring together some highlight of the last few years both in the area of experimental/avant-garde shorts and more traditionally narrative shorts. All of the films were publically accessible on the internet (vimeo and youtube mostly) at the time of writing.
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- DirectorFred Wordenexperimental/avant-garde
- DirectorScott StarkIndustrial penetrations into the arid Texas landscape yield a strange and exotic flowering. Using images from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, based on oil drilling footage from the first half of the 20th century.experimental/avant-garde
- DirectorRyan TrecartinStarsJillian AlexanderKupono AweauJeff BaijThe film focuses on the life of Jenny who has, according to many of the other characters, become too "left-of-center" while pursuing her interests.experimental/avant-garde
- DirectorGeorges SchwizgebelThrough paintings that operate on similar principles to those of nested Russian dolls, we follow the spiralling train of thought of a peregrine, a solitary stroller.experimental/avant-garde
- DirectorBen Russell"John Frum prophesied the occurrence of a cataclysm in which Tanna would become flat, the volcanic mountains would fall and fill the river-beds to form fertile plains, and Tanna would be joined to the neighbouring islands of Eromanga and Aneityum to form a new island. Then John Frum would reveal himself, bringing in a reign of bliss, the natives would get back their youth and there would be no sickness; there would be no need to care for gardens, trees or pigs. The Whites would go; John Frum would set up schools to replace mission schools, and would pay chiefs and teachers." - Peter Worsley, "The Trumpet Shall Sound"experimental/avant-garde
- DirectorLois Patiñoexperimental/avant-garde
- DirectorThorsten FleischIndividual elements from a carrier of visual information have been isolated and used to construct alternative visual reagents.experimental/avant-garde
- DirectorMary Helena ClarkThe Dragon is the Frame proceeds like an experimental detective film, exploring the enigma of depression in its subtle interplay between presence and absence.experimental/avant-garde
- DirectorChristine Lucy Latimer1950's 16mm swimmers dive unknowingly into video-infested waters.experimental/avant-garde
- DirectorEric KissackStarsShawn ParsonsScott BeehnerBrace HarrisIn the tradition of classic westerns, a narrator sets up the story of a lone gunslinger who walks into a saloon. However, the people in this saloon can hear the narrator and the narrator may just be a little bit bloodthirsty.traditional narrative
- DirectorJosh TannerStarsHenry NixonDavid RobertsTom UsherA man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission to unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960.traditional narrative
- DirectorKyungmin WooIn the year 2150, Johnny, a lazy Space Delivery Man, must deliver a package on a planet he does not fully understand.traditional narrative
- DirectorVictoria MatherStarsDrew CaidenHaruka AbeNadia MorganStanleys life runs like clockwork...until an encounter with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down.traditional narrative
- DirectorErik WernquistStarsCarl SaganWhat if we, humans, were to expand beyond the strict bounds of our pale blue dot called planet Earth?traditional narrative
- DirectorLouis LefebvreI, Pet Goat II is an animated film brimming with silent messages and esoteric symbolism. While the movie has no dialog, each symbol tells a piece of a story that covers the fields of history, politics, war, occultism and spirituality. This film explores the Fire of Truth at the Heart of Suffering in a lyrical way.traditional narrative
- DirectorAlex FischmanStarsVicente CayoUgo ManteroCecilia MontserrateA lonely old man's life is turned upside down when a pain-in-the-ass neighbor moves next door.traditional narrative