Sbs's countdown to Tropfest highlights the best of short film ahead of the summer festival. Which are your favourites?
For Australian film fans, Tropfest is a summer essential that has long been celebrated with a picnic in Sydney's Domain – or other outdoor venues broadcasting around the country – while keeping a wary eye on summer storm clouds. So those with both sunbaked and sodden memories of battling the crowds and the elements to champion short films will surely join me in welcoming the launch of Tropfest TV. Launched on Sunday night, the next 12 weeks, SBS2 has the next 12 weeks sorted with weekly thematically linked selections of Tropfest shorts from home and away, including New Zealand, USA and the Middle East.
I can trace my love of short films back to Disney's 1952 classic Lambert the Sheepish Lion. I must have watched that eight-minute fable a thousand times as a child. These days,...
For Australian film fans, Tropfest is a summer essential that has long been celebrated with a picnic in Sydney's Domain – or other outdoor venues broadcasting around the country – while keeping a wary eye on summer storm clouds. So those with both sunbaked and sodden memories of battling the crowds and the elements to champion short films will surely join me in welcoming the launch of Tropfest TV. Launched on Sunday night, the next 12 weeks, SBS2 has the next 12 weeks sorted with weekly thematically linked selections of Tropfest shorts from home and away, including New Zealand, USA and the Middle East.
I can trace my love of short films back to Disney's 1952 classic Lambert the Sheepish Lion. I must have watched that eight-minute fable a thousand times as a child. These days,...
- 9/10/2013
- by Alice Tynan
- The Guardian - Film News
Some people say they don't get Warwick Thornton's film, Samson and Delilah. And some people who say they do get it, don't. It's a film about an Aboriginal boy who sniffs petrol, and an Aboriginal girl who doesn't. He loves her, as well as he can, given his usual state of intoxication, which gets steadily worse through the whole 90 minutes of the film. It is all a bit pointless. That's the point. Pointlessness. This is hard to embody in any art form. Thornton gets very close.
The young people are in love, aren't they? Well, are they? They don't kiss; they don't have sex; they don't even talk to each other. He's no Samson and she's no Delilah. There's some hair-cutting; she cuts her own hair when her grandma dies – with a carving knife (try it some time). Then he has a go when he thinks he's lost her,...
The young people are in love, aren't they? Well, are they? They don't kiss; they don't have sex; they don't even talk to each other. He's no Samson and she's no Delilah. There's some hair-cutting; she cuts her own hair when her grandma dies – with a carving knife (try it some time). Then he has a go when he thinks he's lost her,...
- 3/29/2010
- by Germaine Greer
- The Guardian - Film News
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