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Opening Night Show International Shorts 1

13th Parish Festival of Independent Film and Music
  • 12 May 8.30pm
80 mins
Jersey Arts Centre

Our Opening Night Show is a mix of award-winning short films from around the world – comedy,  fiction, and animation – and just a bit of experimentation!

Affairs of the Art

Joanna Quinn / United Kingdom, Canada / 2021 / 16 mins

Beryl shares her own obsession with drawing while exposing the addictions of her eccentric family, which include pickling, screw threads and pet taxidermy. Aspen Shortfest, Best Comedy 2021. Annecy Animation Film Festival , Special Distinction Direction 2021.

Her Violet Kiss

Bill Morrison / USA / 2021 / 5 mins

Made from decaying nitrate films from the 1920s, the legendary Bill Morrison builds this short film around a large party scene where a woman finally meets a mysterious guest.

Rough

Adam Patterson, Declan Lawn / Ireland / 2021 / 13 mins

A death-sentence. A dog. A decision. In post-conflict Northern Ireland, paramilitaries have evolved into gangs who enforce their own brutal street justice in the form of ‘punishment’ attacks. Best Irish Short Film 2021, Irish Film and Television Academy.

Freeze Frame

Soetkin Verstegen / Belgium, Germany / 2020 / 5 mins

Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside. The most absurd technique since the invention of the moving image.

Displaced

Samir Karahoda / Kosovo / 2021 / 15 mins

In post-war Kosovo, driven by the ambition of keeping their beloved sport alive, two local players wander from one obscure location to another carrying with them the only possession of their club: the tables.

Orgiastic Hyper Plastic

Paul Bush / UK, Denmark / 2020 / 7 mins

An animated extravaganza of plastic. An elegy to a love affair that has gone sour. A fond farewell to that most beautiful material that has enslaved our planet – plastic.

Da Yie (Goodbye)

Anthony Nti / Ghana / 2020 / 20 mins

Young Matilda and Prince are taken on a life-changing trip by a stranger. Kids, gangsters and Ghana’s vibrant coast as you’ve never seen them. Grand Prix, Clermont Ferrand Film Festival 2020.

To view the full 13th Parish Festival programme, please click here.

 

Price£7
£6 (students and seniors)