K3 Film Festival Villach

Wettbewerbsprogramme im Detail

NAVIGATION
K3 UDINE
LOKALER WETTBEWERB Friaul Julisch-Venetien

K3 LJUBLJANA
LOKALER WETTBEWERB Slowenien

K3 VILLACH
KÄRNTENWETTBEWERB
INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB I
INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB II
INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB III
3x3 ÜBERREGIONALER WETTBEWERB

K3 LOKALER WETTBEWERB Friaul Julisch-Venetien

22. August, 20:00 Uhr, Visionario, Udine

1. SENZA TELA: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

Without Canvas: The Tree of Knowledge

Manuel Fanni Canelles | IT 2011/2012 | 4´| ohne Dialoge

Inspired by a detail in a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Manuel Fanni Canelles tells in his latest work the story of the Tree of Knowledge. It is an exploration of the borders between reality and fiction starting in a sacred dimension, from the first verses of the Genesis. Where is the border between truth and depiction, reality and virtuality, to be/not to be/must be?

2. LOVE

Davide Salucci | IT 2012 | 5´45´´
Englisch mit englischen und italienischen Untertiteln

A romantic love scene at the seashore, a happy couple, love confessions: when suddenly, arriving at the crucial "I love you", the man believes to be acting at a film set. When he wants to "repeat" the scene to follow "the script" well (acting a set of behaviours dictated by society and culture) he hurts his confused lover’s feelings. The impossibility of understanding each other leads to the breakdown of their realtionship.

3. LA PENNA DI HEMINGWAY

Hemingway's Pen

Renzo Carbonera | IT 2010 | 17´
Italienisch mit englischen Untertiteln

Life can make you dependent on things and fragile - something Claudia found out when she went back to Lignano following the death of her father - whom she hadn't seen for years - and got caught up in the mystery of a pen that had once belonged to Hemingway.

4. DENTRO LA CITTÀ DEI MORTI

Inside the City of the Dead

Barbara Urbano, Claudio Cescutti | IT 2011 | 29´53´´
Italienisch, Arabisch mit italienischen und englischen Untertiteln

In October 2010 Barbara Urbano and Claudio Cescutti leave for Cairo to document the early stages of Micro-jardin project by Liveinslums NGO. An urban agriculture project is started in an unusual environment: the City of the Dead. It's the largest Muslim cemetery in Cairo and it's inhabited by about 800,000 people who occupy the court tombs, still used for the burials, making them permanent homes. The phenomenon of co-habitation between the living and the dead and the great historic significance of the place make it a unique case in the world. The project is a form of subsistence for the inhabitants and also a piece of a multi-disciplinary research of Liveinslums NGO. It proposes an alternative to Cairo 2050 urban development plan. This plan, seeking new and profitable speculations, includes demolitions of entire cemetery sections, forced evictions and dwellers relocations.

5. IL MURO BASSO

Low Wall

Mauro Bratti | IT 2008 | 4´| ohne Dialoge

In search of freedom and a way to express his personality, the main character tries to escape from every day life inventing his own secret space of creativity: in his room with an old typewriter. Reflecting the current social reality of young people pessimism characterizes this short film. But still the story is as an invitation to keep following personal dreams and plans.

6. L`IMPERVEDIBILE DESTINO DEI CAUGICH

Caugich's unpredictable fate

Krema, Peressutti, Sabbadini | IT 2010 | 5´20´´
Italienisch mit englischen Untertiteln

The film is the tale of the grotesque and morbid self-destructive family Caugich. The four Caugich brothers living in a spartan and lonely way, in a house in the woods. Everything goes on routinely until Sergio, the youngest one, decides to leave home to pursue his dream. In the letter he left to his brothers, the young man explains his reasons and opens the curtain on the real and disturbing attitude of the family.

7. CINEZOIQUE

Stefania Rotta | IT 2012 | 3´15´´| ohne Dialoge

Cinezoique is the present era, where the cinema leaves the screens and invades all surfaces. Cinezoique is an 21 metres long installation, a trail of time, a walk through the history of film where the paths of spectators and actors cross each other.

K3 LOKALER WETTBEWERB Slowenien

24. September, 21:30 Uhr, Kinodvor, Ljubljana

Alle Programme mit englischen Untertiteln

1. POGLEDI SKOZI ŽELEZNO ZAVESO

Looking through the iron curtain

Anja Medved | SLO 2010 | 22´|

A border crossing that divides two cities, two states and two social systems and separates the Roman world from the Slavic one. 65 years after the war, on the 20th of December 2007 Slovenia entered the Schengen area and the town of Nova Gorica finds itself united again. The same night the border crossing that witnessed many traumatic events becomes obsolete and transforms into a point of meetings. There's a camera, a microphone, a computer and a curtain that provides some privacy to the people that come into this booth to share their memories. They come from both sides of the now erased border, bringing with them stories and pictures of times past. The memories, the fragments of the family and archive films are telling a story of their own: a story about two very different realities, cohabiting at the same time at the same place. The documentary reveals absurd stories, which are typical for border-divided areas all over the world.

2. WHITE BOX

Eva Petrič | SLO 2012 | 8´|

White Box deals with space, investigating the coordinates of: who, what , when, where, why and how in relation to it to find the best means of how to create it. How to create space? This was the motivation behind White Box, to explore the landscape of space and with this confront physical space, mental space, visible space, invisible space, imaginary space, metaphorical space, all of these defined by atmosphere.

3. SOUND MACHINE

Gašper Piano, Hana Vodeb, Mark Požleb | SLO 2011 | 14´|

Sound Machine is the first part of a trilogy of short films set in the heart of a man with an average job. Every day after work, Mr.P. makes the sound machine that would enable him to hear the kingdom of sound vibrations, such people by nature are not able to be heard. Great invention pull him from everyday life miserable, and help him to establish a different relationship with the environment in which he is increasingly alienated.

4. KOZA OZDRAVELA BO

The goat will get well

Žiga Divjak, Matic Drakulić, Katarina Rešek | SLO 2011 | 6´|

Sights and sounds of Ljubljana through the eyes of te street musicians.

5. SOLIDARNOST

Nika Autor | SLO 2012 | 5´|

The film is a reshot of the Joyce Wieland movie Solidarity, made in 1973, and documents workers protests in Ljubljana. It raises questions, such as: what is solidarity today, who is solidary, who with and when? Idea for the reshot of the movie emerged during current horrifying exploitation of labour, mass unemployment, impossible work conditions, restructuration of labour market and, when question of solidarity is malipulated by power structures.

6. THE INVISIBLES

Pieter de Vos, Svetozar Petrović, Vuk Savić | SLO 2011 | 10´|

Slovenia is the most prosperous one of all the countries of former Yugoslavia. After the break-up of the old country, thousands of workers from other ex-Yugoslavian republics rushed to Slovenia with hopes of better life. However, they have been exploited and have been living in terrible conditions. Can they become united again and fight for their rights?

7. DNEVNIK Z ENEGA OTOKA

Diary from one island

Sabina Đogić | SLO 2012 | 30´|

A personal video diary on the Kino Otok Film Festival on which the author returned after five years of absence.

KÄRNTENWETTBEWERB

Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, 18:30 Uhr, Stadtkino Villach

1. HYPERCRISIS

Josef Dabernig | A 2011 | 17´11´´

The former recreation home for Soviet cinematographers in the Caucasus has been repurposed to accommodate writers. But that doesn't seem to work very well. At present, only Boris Martow from Moscow, a talent from the promising times of the perestroika, is on the guest list. Amidst the faded glory of the institution for privileged artists, the poet tries to overcome his continuing creative crisis.

2. DIALOG über Österreich

Hubert Sielecki | A 2012 | 3´20´´

The characteristic expressions of the Viennese are played out in a fictional dialogue. No one should have the illusion of being able to understand.

3. IN DA MÖLLTALLEITN

Anna Rettl | A 2012 | 7´43´´
WORLD PREMIERE

Short film, arranged out of two found footage videos - decomposed in their pixels and individual components, turning more and more abstract.

4. 1456 DRIVERS AND THE POLICE (A, B AND C)

Alexander Martinz | A 2012 | 5´
FESTIVAL PREMIERE

Three videos using material of Walter Hill's movie „Driver". During five minutes three shots of the movie are repeated 1456 times each. As they are modulated in speed audiovisual patterns emerge.

5. VOIDOV~

Manuel Knapp | A 2012 | 14´

A three-dimensional sequence is generated from raw data. The rendered sequence is projected onto the original scene in the programme, rendered again, and projected once again as a shadow map. In this final step, the rendered image is also applied as a texture on the objects in the scene. This repetition produces superimpositions of light, shadow, structure, and perspective.

6. BEIRUT BLEND

Fritz Ofner | A 2012 | 30´
WORLD PREMIERE

"Blend" is the cut of a type of tobacco that glistens at six places in Beirut under the glowing stone of the water pipe at the film's center. "Blend" also means "mingling", "to mix". And this is precisely what happens in thirty minutes of low-key black-and-white compositions in which the portrayed talk about sports and also about Gaddafi's fortune, Arab spring and the Middle-East conflict.

K3 INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB I

Donnerstag, 22. November 2012, 20:45 Uhr, Stadtkino Villach

1. RETROCOGNITION

Eric Patrick | USA 2012 | 17'37'
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

An animated collage of photographs and audio fragments from WWII era radio dramas combine to critique the classic American televisual nuclear family.

2. IF HIMMLER PLAYED GUITAR

Andy Taylor Smith | UK 2011 | 10'33''
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

An email out of the blue introduced Andy Taylor Smith to Jon Valinski. His uncanny resemblance to the Uberführer of the SS was at once disturbing and intriguing. Unsure of what he would uncover, Andy gathered up his camera kit and faithful sound man to find out what kind of life this man could lead. After three days they returned more baffled than ever.

3. HOMBRE MÁQUINA

Machine man

Roser Corella, Alfonso Moral | ESP 2011 | 15'
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

A reflection on modernity and global development. Men as machines. The use of human physical force to perform work in the XXI Century. The film takes place in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, where a mass of millions of people become the driving force behind the city.

4. EINE ZUKUNFTSWEISENDE VERGANGENHEIT

A FORWARD-LOOKING PAST

Arne Bunk, Britta von Heintze | GER 2012 | 15'
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

A filmic examination of school rooms in the 70s. The era's school-architecture displays the intention of historical and educational reforms. We are interested in the Utopia written into the architectural designs and the current state of schools. Rebuilding and repurposing point to a tense area between planning and actual usage.

5. SOLITUDE IN YEAR ZERO

Jan Ijas | FIN, MEX 2012 | 1'18''
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

Sometimes social media equals solitude at least in this update film.

6. LE FACTEUR HUMAIN

THE HUMAN FACTOR

Thibault Le Texier | FR 2011 | 28'
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

In 1914, an engineer sent away to reorganize a factory exchanges letters with his wife. As he tells her about his experiments in taylorism, she picks up bits and pieces of this method and applies it to her daily tasks at home. While he gets disappointed by the Taylor system, she becomes a true domestic engineer.

K3 INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB II

Freitag, 23. November 2012, 22:00 Uhr, Stadtkino Villach

1. OR ANYTHING AT ALL EXCEPT THE DARK PAVEMENT

Theodora Barat | FR 2011 | 5´30´´

This film is a tracking shot. We start to progress into the city by night. When the city fades away, actions take over the obscurity. They announce other stories or oneiric moments : a fantasized vision of roadside landscape.

2. THE HUMPING PACT

Diego Agulló, Dmitry Paranyushkin | UK 2011 | 11´45´´

The Humping Pact is a tribute to dysfunctional spaces that still emanate creative potential. It is an attempt to build an intimate and personal relationship with space, being loyal to its demands and dedicated within the efforts.

3. SINEMA LEO

Christiane Buchmann | GER/TZ 2011 | 4´9´´

Elisonguo Kiwia loves movies and he dreams of a good film minystry in his home country Tanzania. Everbody thinks he is crazy, because Kiwia's only interest is to go out to the countryside and show films - for free! He not only feels lika an projectionist. He really wants to reach his audience. Even if this means that Kiwia has to do dangerous roadtrips...

4. HOLDING THE LINE

Patrick Wells | UK 2011 | 25´
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

Solo filmmaker Patrick Wells spent three weeks living on the frontline with the Martyr's Brigade, a group of Libyan rebel fighters defending the besieged city of Misrata. Holding the Line is the result, an unique portrait of citizen soldiers at war.

5. AMNESIA

Lendita Zeqiraj | Kosovo 2011 | 4´

Re-creation of the forgotten past through remaining pieces of super 8 mm film found after the war.

6. PRINZIP ZUFALL

Random principle

Romeo Grünfelder | GER 2011 | 25´

When a psycho physisist experiments with a train set, he discovers a strange anomality, which can't be explained in physical terms.

7. ACHTUNG / HALLO 35

Attention / Hello 35

Viktoria Schmid | A 2011 | 2´30´´

A touristic, romantic view of the city of Vienna as well as a fetishized and uncovering presentation of the medium film, produced in the darkroom by contact print. The soundtrack is the direct auditory translation of the images (dubbing of the visual elements on the sound track).

K3 INTERNATIONALER WETTBEWERB III

Samstag, 24. November 2012, 20:00 Uhr, Stadtkino Villach

1. KREIS WR. NEUSTADT

A to A

Johann Lurf | A 2011 | 5´

This film centers on a special form of street construction. Johann Lurf documents rotunda islands in Austria, shown in segments of a few seconds, and creates something of a catalogue of local building malfunctions. The islands feature gravel, hedges or sculptures with grapevines, fountains or ornamental flowers and are furnished with traffic signs, information postings or advertisement objects.

2. SOBRE BELGRADO

Over Belgrade

Andrés Denegri | ARG 2011 | 4´
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

The crows fly over Belgrade.

3. CHAMBRES AVEC VUE

Rooms with a view

Léo Zarka-Lepage | FR 2012 | 15´38´´
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

Facing the window. As ever, the same landscape. Almost hard to depict. When visiting the neighbours, a migrant workers household, the view seems quite other.

4. WITHIN WITHIN

Sharon Liu | UK 2011 | 3´29´´

"My graduation film is about my personal feelings to Hong Kong and its complicated relationship with China. It expresses what I really want to say and feel at the age of 23, that I love not just my birth place Hong Kong but my country as well."

5. BODEGA CHIPS

Jaime Iglehart | USA 2012 | 8´44´´
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

It's the year 2117. The president has moved to Pluto, where he threatens to blow up the Earth if citizens don't keep buying stuff. Doctor Adventure and his sidekick, Moongoose, are the only ones who can save the planet from the President and his deadly drones. This video is the first installment in an ongoing series.

6. HELLO BAMBI

Faiyaz Jafri | USA 2011 | 6´09´´
AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

Snow White's final dream on her way to the emergency room.

7. DEEP END ART N°1

Ivan Ladislav Galeta | Croatia 2012 | 20´
WORLD PREMIERE

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." Henry David Thoreau

3X3 ÜBERREGIONALER WETTBEWERB

24. November, 22:00 Uhr, Stadkino Villach

Beim 3X3 Wettbewerb treffen die drei besten Kurzfilme aus den lokalen Wettbewerben (Friaul Julisch Venetien, Slowenien und Kärnten) aufeinander.
Einer der neun nominierten Filme wird mit dem 3X3 überregionalen Kurzfilmpreis, dotiert mit € 1.500.- , ausgezeichnet.

Teilnehmer Friaul Julisch Venetien

1. CINEZOIQUE

Stefania Rotta | IT 2012 | 3´15´´| ohne Dialoge

Cinezoique is the present era, where the cinema leaves the screens and invades all surfaces. Cinezoique is an 21 metres long installation, a trail of time, a walk through the history of film where the paths of spectators and actors cross each other.

2. LA PENNA DI HEMINGWAY

Hemingway's Pen

Renzo Carbonera | IT 2010 | 17´
Italienisch mit englischen Untertiteln

Life can make you dependent on things and fragile - something Claudia found out when she went back to Lignano following the death of her father - whom she hadn't seen for years - and got caught up in the mystery of a pen that had once belonged to Hemingway.

3. L`IMPERVEDIBILE DESTINO DEI CAUGICH

Caugich's unpredictable fate

Krema, Peressutti, Sabbadini | IT 2010 | 5´20´´
Italienisch mit englischen Untertiteln

The film is the tale of the grotesque and morbid self-destructive family Caugich. The four Caugich brothers living in a spartan and lonely way, in a house in the woods. Everything goes on routinely until Sergio, the youngest one, decides to leave home to pursue his dream. In the letter he left to his brothers, the young man explains his reasons and opens the curtain on the real and disturbing attitude of the family.

Teilnehmer Slowenien

4. POGLEDI SKOZI ŽELEZNO ZAVESO

Looking through the iron curtain

Anja Medved | SLO 2010 | 22´|

A border crossing that divides two cities, two states and two social systems and separates the Roman world from the Slavic one. 65 years after the war, on the 20th of December 2007 Slovenia entered the Schengen area and the town of Nova Gorica finds itself united again. The same night the border crossing that witnessed many traumatic events becomes obsolete and transforms into a point of meetings. There's a camera, a microphone, a computer and a curtain that provides some privacy to the people that come into this booth to share their memories. They come from both sides of the now erased border, bringing with them stories and pictures of times past. The memories, the fragments of the family and archive films are telling a story of their own: a story about two very different realities, cohabiting at the same time at the same place. The documentary reveals absurd stories, which are typical for border-divided areas all over the world.

5. WHITE BOX

Eva Petrič | SLO 2012 | 8´|

White Box deals with space, investigating the coordinates of: who, what , when, where, why and how in relation to it to find the best means of how to create it. How to create space? This was the motivation behind White Box, to explore the landscape of space and with this confront physical space, mental space, visible space, invisible space, imaginary space, metaphorical space, all of these defined by atmosphere.

6. SOLIDARNOST

Nika Autor | SLO 2012 | 5´|

The film is a reshot of the Joyce Wieland movie Solidarity, made in 1973, and documents workers protests in Ljubljana. It raises questions, such as: what is solidarity today, who is solidary, who with and when? Idea for the reshot of the movie emerged during current horrifying exploitation of labour, mass unemployment, impossible work conditions, restructuration of labour market and, when question of solidarity is malipulated by power structures.

Teilnehmer Kärnten

7. HYPERCRISIS

Josef Dabernig | A 2011 | 17´11´´

The former recreation home for Soviet cinematographers in the Caucasus has been repurposed to accommodate writers. But that doesn't seem to work very well. At present, only Boris Martow from Moscow, a talent from the promising times of the perestroika, is on the guest list. Amidst the faded glory of the institution for privileged artists, the poet tries to overcome his continuing creative crisis.

8. BEIRUT BLEND

Fritz Ofner | A 2012 | 30´

"Blend" is the cut of a type of tobacco that glistens at six places in Beirut under the glowing stone of the water pipe at the film's center. "Blend" also means "mingling", "to mix". And this is precisely what happens in thirty minutes of low-key black-and-white compositions in which the portrayed talk about sports and also about Gaddafi's fortune, Arab spring and the Middle-East conflict.

9. VOIDOV~

Manuel Knapp | A 2012 | 14´

A three-dimensional sequence is generated from raw data. The rendered sequence is projected onto the original scene in the programme, rendered again, and projected once again as a shadow map. In this final step, the rendered image is also applied as a texture on the objects in the scene. This repetition produces superimpositions of light, shadow, structure, and perspective.