Shorts
Reviews, previews and highlights of features and shorts from the myDylarama team and guest writers.
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Interview with Jian Luo, director of What Do You Know About the Water and the Moon
18 May 2019, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamInterview with the Chinese filmmaker Jian Luo about her short film What do you Know About the Water and the Moon? selected as part of the 2019 International Competition at Clermont-Ferrand. A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École in collaboration with the Brasserie du Court and Mydylarama. During an attempted abortion, a girl gives birth to a live jellyfish. A magic realist film that’s both hypnotic and troubling from a very promising and original young director. More on (…) -
Interview with Nick Jordan, director of Stratum
20 April 2019, by ARFIS, Elise LoiseauInterview with the British filmmaker and Clermont favourite Nick Jordan about his short film Stratum. Stratum is a film that navigates through post-industrial landscapes on the European Route of Industrial Heritage, from Britain’s abandoned South Yorkshire coal seams to the culturally re-purposed collieries of the Ruhr Valley, Germany, via the former coal-mining region of Wallonia, Belgium. Contrasting the past and present, contemporary scenes are combined with archival film material, (…) -
Interview with Paul Szynol, director of The Pull
20 April 2019, by Abla Kandalaft, ARFISInterview with the American filmmaker Paul Szynol about his film, the moving and ambitious short "The Pull". After serving time in a New Hampshire jail, a freed inmate faces the pull of addiction. Café court / Expresso Video - Paul Szynol from ClermontFd Short Film Festival on Vimeo. More about Paul’s work on his website. Follow him on Twitter @paulszynol. The video was directed by the students of the ARFIS École in colaboration with the Brasserie du Court and Mydylarama. -
Interview with Yves Piat, director of Nefta Football Club
9 April 2019, by Abla Kandalaft, ARFIS, Brasserie du Court teamIn a Moroccan village, children play football on an improvised field. Meanwhile, Abdallah and Mohammed come across a donkey with a headphone on his hears and bags full of a white powder on his back. The two young brothers decide to bring those bags to their village. TRAILER - NEFTA FOOTBALL CLUB from Les Valseurs on Vimeo. Interview with Yves Piat, director of the award-winning hilarious short Nefta Football Club. Café court / Expresso Video - Yves Piat from ClermontFd Short Film (…) -
Alex Feggans, director of Jackrabbit
9 April 2019, by Abla Kandalaft, ARFISBased on a true story. An Italian backpacker stops at a remote gas station in Australia and is confronted with a strange situation. Interview with Alex Feggans, director of the amusing, genre-bending Australian short Jackrabbit. Jackrabbit was screened at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival 2019. To find out more about Alex’s work or to request a screener, check out his website. -
ClermontFF2019 Interview with Jonathan Hodgson, director of Roughhouse
11 March 2019, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamIn a strange town, the relationship of a group of friends is tested when a new person joins them. The manipulative personality of the new group member has worrying consequences and challenges the loyalty of the friends. Are there any elements of this story that are autobiographical? Are the friends based on people you know? The story is inspired by an episode from my late teens when I was living in a student flat in Liverpool. Some of the characters are based on people I knew at the (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Interview with Vincent Lambe, director of Detainment
10 March 2019, by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierDetainment is based on transcripts of the interrogation of 10 year-olds Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered toddler James Bulger in 1993. How did you learn about children’s transcripts? I was 12 when it happened and I grew up hearing about the case. I could never understand how these two ten-year-old boys could commit such a horrific crime. A lot of people will say they were simply “evil”. I think it’s easier to label them “evil” than to try to understand how two ten-year-old (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Entretien avec Vincent Lambe, réalisateur de Detainment (Garde à vue)
10 mars 2019, par Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierComment avez-vous appris l’existence des transcriptions des interrogatoires de l’affaire James Bulger ? J’avais douze ans au moment de l’affaire, et j’en ai entendu parler toute ma jeunesse. Je n’arrivais pas à comprendre comment ces deux garçons de dix ans avaient pu commettre un crime aussi horrible. Beaucoup de gens disent qu’ils étaient juste foncièrement « mauvais ». Mais je pense qu’il est plus facile de dire cela que de tenter de comprendre comment des enfants peuvent se rendre (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Lobo Mauro, director of Mais Triste que Chuva num Recreio de Colégio
1 March 2019, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamCan you explain your choice of title? Is it a Brazilian saying? It’s not a Brazilian saying. There’s a sentence in a book called Os Cus de Judas (“The Land at the End of the World”), by António Lobo Antunes, a Portuguese writer, which says “triste como a chuva num recreio de colégio” (“sad like rain during recess time” in English) that I really liked. I remembered this sentence when I started thinking about the film. I changed its intensity by adding “mais triste que” (“sadder than”), for (…) -
ClermontFF2019 Veljko Popovic, director of Biciklisti
17 February 2019, by Abla KandalaftInterview with Veljko Popovic, director of the beautiful, hypnotic and playful Biciklisti. Can you tell us about cycling season? I’m assuming it’s a real event! The spirit of the local people in my hometown is entangled with sports. It can be football, it can be basketball, water polo or cycling. It does not matter, what matters is the iconic position of the sportsman as the alpha male in the pack. He is revered, lusted after and considered to be the best of man. He knows this and is (…)