CARRINGTON BREWERY,
PARKE STREET, KATOOMBA,
BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA
SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER 2018
BAR 8PM • SCREENING 8.30-10:30PM
JUDGES
Kim Batterham
James Cunningham
With hundreds of films submitted from all over the world for the 3rd Vertical Film Festival, the selection panel had a tough job narrowing it down to the films below.
This list is separated into two parts - competition finalists followed by out-of-competition films.
To see the program order please refer to this PDF. We're very grateful to the filmmakers who've allowed us to showcase some of their films online, where circumstances & rights clearances permit.
UPDATE: THE RESULTS OF THE COMPETITION ARE IN! CONGRATULATIONS TO WENCESLAO LOPEZ MEZA FOR “AMAPOLA”.
DETAILS IN OUR BLOG.
Golden Delicious
A fantastic journey about discovery of inner strength and the power to persevere when faced with the impossible.
Director Veronika Jelsikova (Czech Republic) Duration 2’58" Equipment Sony as7ii
Zebra Life
Sophia relives a message that will change her life. She will have to walk in a journey between black and white lines, what they call the Zebra Life in order to found the correct path in life
Director Octavio Maya Rocha (Mexico) Key Cast Sandra Arcos Duration 2’55” Equipment iPhone SE Website http://vimeo.com/210713598
Isle of Capri
Lina’s grandmother is in a severe state of Alzheimer’s disease. In order to make her remember again, Lina abducts her from the hospital and takes her to her abandoned childhood home.
Directors Måns Berthas (Sweden) Duration 3’00” Key Cast Lina Hallberg, Britt-Mari Eriksson Cinematographer Johan Lehman Sound Jerker Häggström Production Manager Petra Berggren First AC, Grip Joakim Nyström Equipment Red Dragon
Double (World Premiere)
Dayna Grant grew up struggling with the perimeters of schooling and found herself lost with life and her career until she found the perfect profession for her. Stunts. Dayna is award winning stunt woman, who has worked as a double for A-list actors including Charlize Theron and Tilda Swinton. Although she is hugely successful in her industry her main passion is helping others around her achieve their goals.
Director Laura Sargisson (New Zealand) Duration 2’59” Key Cast Dayna Grant Cinematographer Olly Harris Gaffer Drew Wright Editor Alastair Tye Samson Post Production The Finishing Suite Equipment Sony F5, DaVinci Resolve
Website http://www.laurasargisson.com/
Rectangle (World Premiere)
'Rectangle' is a tongue-in-cheek insight into the way we capture home movies in the 21st century.
Director/Producer Ben Kumanovski (Australia) Duration 1’33” Key Cast Emma Bellamy, Josh Megarrity Cinematographer Sidat de Silva Art Director Melissa Kumanovski Equipment Red Helium Website http://www.fussyfilms.co/
Wings
In a society where men control the purse strings as a way of holding power over the family, a woman breaks free from the domestic prison her husband has created to continue her job as a street cleaner.
Director Kiran Pokharel (Nepal) Cast Nisha Karki, Kiran Pokharel Producer Kamal Risal, Sanjeev Acharya Duration 3’00” Equipment Blackmagic Pocket Camera Website https://www.facebook.com/kiran.pokharel1
Link www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxW9xvR1TMg
Beat Again
After a bad injury from a basketball match, a player loses her 'inner rhythm', but thanks to the her willpower she will find a way to 'Beat Again’.
Director & Producer Duccio Brunetti (Italy) Duration 3’00” Key Cast Maria Cristina Tizi Cinematographer Riccardo Pompili Original Soundtrack Alessandro Elisei Producer Nicolò Marchi Scriptwriters Duccio Brunetti, Jacopo Fioretti Equipment Canon Mark 3, iPhone 7 Website http://vimeo.com/dbrunetti
Like the dream of Laura
Laura Ferretti: the actress and the woman who discovers how to defeat the Minotaur.
Directors Octavio Maya Rocha (Mexico) Duration 3’00” Equipment iPhone 7 Website http://vimeo.com/261603746
1ST PRIZE - ‘THIS WAY UP’ COMPETITION & ‘BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY’
Amapola
A professional freediver tell us about her vision of the world in a journey through her mind and the water.
Director Wenceslao Lopez Meza (Mexico) Duration 3’00” Cinematographer Rosa Hadit Key Cast
Violeta Amapola Nava Galindo Equipment Canon EOS 7D Website http://instagram.com/mr_xolotl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCy7SB0QAqg
VITRUM
VITRUM explores the virtual space of a longterm and long-distance relationship. The digital world influences humans and their relationships. All the positive aspects for example the development of social structures and communities are facing the negative aspects of it like social separation, isolation and sometimes the loss of reality.
Directors Joscha Bongard, Felix Schreiber (Germany) Duration 07’37” Cast: Tanja Lehmann, Wolfram Schorlemmer Equipment Blackmagic Website http://www.joschabongard.com/
Palkattomat Pojat
Two men in search of fame and fortune to satisfy their yearning for purpose in their meaningless existence.
Director Aleksi Lappalainen, Matti Sipola (Finland) Duration 6’35” Cast Aleksi Lappalainen, Matti Sipola Equipment Panasonic Lumix GH 2
Comme Toi
A young father who has neglected his son decides to his life back on track after an innocuous discussion with his child.
Director Jérôme Piel-Desruisseaux (France) Duration 3’45” Cinematographer Alexis Porée Cast Anthony Légal, Théo Taggueb, (headmistress voice) Elsa Bougerie Screenwriter Anthony Légal Sound recordist Franck Rabineau Make up Alexandra Lemoine Equipment Canon 5D mark iv
The VFF is Mushrooming :-) A one-minute vertical video callout from the Vertical Film Festival team shot with GoPro & drone on a recent Sunday morning in the Finnish archipelago*. Music from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset, conductor. https://www.yourclassical.org/story/2017/02/02/daily-download-edvard-grieg--peer-gynt-in-the-hall-of-the-mountain-king *Many mushrooms were harmed during the production of this film. They were delicious.
The Jacaranda
Jacaranda, the woman who every spring appears to send letters to people from all over the world, that are accompanied by a beautiful violet blue flower. Generating a positive impact on the community in the integration and equality.
Director Ane Rodríguez (Mexico) Duration 3’00” Equipment Sony A7s II Website http://purplelips.tv/
Lina
A vertical documentary to portray a different point of view in life. A point of view that challenges prejudice and preconceptions. Lina's point of view.
Director Pablo Santiago Apiolazza (Italy) Duration 3’00” Script Federica Raffin
Music Ian Post Special thanks to Oltre Quella sedia NGO Equipment Sony a7sI Website http://www.apzmedia.com/
Maia
When we take our first steps in to art, we need a guide, a muse, a source of inspiration. Maya Plisetskaya served that role for dancers of many generations. Her portrait, ever-present in rehearsing rooms and her smile inspire young dancers to overcome their difficulties.
Director Inna Ouvaroff (France) Duration 3’00” Equipment RED
Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2csmEG6jE8
Circle
Follow your heart.
Director Kai Stänicke (Germany) Duration 3’00” Cinematographer Thomas Schneider Editor Susanne Ocklitz Equipment Sony FS7
Website http://www.kaistaenicke.com/ Link www.youtube.com/watch?v=twD_P4VOvIw
Standpoint (World Premiere)
Two strangers meet at their balconies. She is tired of her life. He will invite her to pursuit the life she wants.
Director Juan Francisco Pérez Villalba (Colombia) Duration 3’00” Website http://juanfranciscoperezvillalba.com/ LINK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtnroHplDTc
To Accept
Stop motion portrait of my husband and the picture of our first meeting. The story about how to be yourself and to find your own way.
Director Daria Kashcheeva (Czech Republic) Key Cast Alexander Kashcheev Duration 2’59” Equipment Canon EOS 650, Dragonframe 3 Website http://www.facebook.com/dariakashcheeva
Heart Therapy
The Nurse of the Poznan Hospital takes care of the newborn babies. From time to time she meets very lonely newborns that are taken away from their parents or are unwanted. All these situations are very sad. The Nurse takes care of these lonely newborns, even staying after work to make their first day better by giving them a heart therapy.
Director Anna Zoll (Poland) Duration 3’00” Key Cast Paulina Tarnowska Music Michal Kowalonek
Music performed/words Paulina Tarnowska
Pictures Piotr Krupa
Equipment Canon C100 mll Website https://www.facebook.com/Anna-Zoll-Film-120127668687090/?ref=bookmarks
Bonne Nuit
Lola works for an estate agency. When her boss asks her if she's about to sell an apartment, she tells him about someone who might be interested. But in fact, Lola prefers to keep this place for sale.
Director Dominique Maury-Lasmartres (France) Duration 3’00” Key Cast Ileana Lisa,
Manda Touré, Christophe Davis Cinematographer Olivier Tresson Sound Engineer Matthieu Fraticelli Equipment Sony A7SII Website http://silence-action.com/
Lasting Marks
The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the tabloid press — but not by those in the dock.
Director Charlie Lyn (UK) Duration 14’36” As told by Roland Jaggard; Directed and edited Charlie Lyne Producers Catherine Bray, Anthony Ing and Charlie Lyne Original Score Anthony Ing Executive produced by Matt Diegan, Jono Stevens, Laura Poitras and Charlotte Cook.
Il Nome Che Mi Hai Sempre Dato
Inspired by a true story. A tale of an endless love, a trip to the past, a man, prisoner of his human space. Determined to live through memories, for a new and unexplored "vanishing point".
Director Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo (Italy) Duration 7’25” Website http://www.paradisepictures.it/
Bicho
Bicho explores the power of relationships and the concept of our own unique power to start over every day of our life.
Director Mariana Azcárate (Mexico) Duration 3’03” Key Cast Daniel Baruc Romero, Socorro Larrauri Website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faxg16wxikw
2Nd Edition — 2016
CARRINGTON BREWERY,
KATOOMBA, AUSTRALIA
SATURDAY 21 MAY 2016
BAR 7:30PM • SCREENING 8.00-10:30PM
Festival program is available here (PDF).
With dozens of films submitted from all over the world for the 2nd Vertical Film Festival, the selection panel had a tough job narrowing it down to the films below. This list is in alphabetical order; competition finalists then out of competition films. For the actual order as shown at Katoomba, please refer to this PDF (186kb). We're very grateful to the filmmakers who've allowed us to showcase some of their films online, where circumstances & rights clearances permit.
UPDATE: THE RESULTS OF OUR 2016 COMPETITION ARE IN! DETAILS IN OUR BLOG.
⇧THIS WAY UP⇧ 2016 (in competition)
Addendum
"An addendum may explain inconsistencies or expand the existing work or update the information found in the main work, especially if any such problems were detected too late to correct the main work."
In 1977 the Voyager spacecraft was launched with a golden disk onboard, containing sounds and images of Planet Earth. This is an addendum for that record.
Director Ferenc Kiss (Hungary) Created by Directing Light Sound Design Phonography Duration 2’49" Equipment Canon/Helios
2ND PRIZE
Basket Case
Ever wondered how you end up with odd socks? An animated comedy.
Director James Bedford (UK) Duration 2’20” Equipment Canon 5D Website www.filmekanik.co.uk
1ST PRIZE
Impact
The mental journey of a high diver in the seconds before his jump. World champion cliff diver, Lionel Franc aims to dive from 115ft and break his own record.
Director Jean-Charles Granjon (France) Duration 3’00” Line Producer Bluearth Production Post Production La planète rouge Equipment Phantom Flex Website www.bluearth-prod.com/
Passages
Travel journal evoking F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald's tour of Europe.
Director Mila Turajlic (Serbia) Duration 3’00” Composer Nemanja Mosurovic Equipment iPhone
Website www.othersideofeverything.com
Theo
Theo and his mother are going for a walk in the forest. Suddenly, Theo disappears…
Director Cédric Martin (France) Cast Marie Bokillon, Louis Quinn Duration 2’59” Equipment SONY FS7 Website cedricmartin.fr
Tried
A eulogy for for the victims of police violence.
Director & Producer Charles Williams (Australia) Duration 2’37” Writer & Actor Abdul Hammoud Cinematographer Aaron Farrugia Sound Designer Craig Conway Equipment Nexus 5 & Arri Alexa
Website charleswilliams.com.au
3RD PRIZE
Umwelt
Exploring the diversity of time by combining two different timeframes to create new scenery and emotion. Plants are filmed with time-lapse and composited with realtime insect imagery.
Director Yoshiyuki Katayama (Japan) Duration 1’43” Equipment Canon EOS 7D Website ktym.jpn.org/
Alia
The story of Alia and her brother who come to the modern city from a country at war, each with opposing views on their new life. An attack on the city — by people who came from their birth country — creates fear and discrimination against them, ultimately destroying their identity so they can be free.
Director Matias Martinez (Chile) Cast Millaray Villanueva, Renato D´garcia Duration 3’00” Equipment Sony Fs700 Website martzfv.com/
Along the Lines
A soliloquy about life and art, by the mime and Italian performer Romano Rocchi.
Directors Antonella Lauria & Susanna Vicentini (Italy) Duration 3’00” Sound technician Francesco P. Sileno
Make-up artist Emanuela Serini Equipment Canon 750D
Eiland
“Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.” - Muhammad Ali
Director Kuesti Fraun (Germany) Duration 3’00” Writers Andreas Uehlein & Kuesti Fraun
Camera, Sound, Editing Chris Brandl Cast Andreas Uehlein Equipment Samsung Note 3
Website www.facebook.com/mobtik
Lost Postcards
A woman who is afraid of leaving her own city collects old postcards from places she's never travelled to.
Director Tamara Scherbak (Canada) Duration 3’00” Writers Tamara Scherbak & Faisal Lutchmedial Camera & Sound Faisal Lutchmedial Editor Tamara Scherbak Voice-Over Kim Nelson Equipment Canon 5D Mark 3 Website www.miksang.ca
Stork Story
A lyrical story between a bell ringer and a stork. He loves to play symphonies on an old bell piano and the stork answers with the sound of bill-clattering, creating a mix between a world below and a world above.
Director Francesco Mattuzzi (Italy) Duration 2’39” Cast Eric Procaccianti Editor Alice Bolognani Music Composer Rafaël Leloup Director of Photography Davide Grimoldi Equipment Canon 5D Mark II Website www.planckstudio.com
Thing
Who is Thing? Where is Thing? Thing is here and nowhere, Thing knows people who know people, Thing is watching you.
Director Luca De Salvia (UK) Duration 1’53” Website lucadesalvia.com
Turuu
In the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, a nomad boy called Turuu trains his horses for a big race at the traditional Nadaam festival.
Directors Joerg Locher & Jeremias Heppeler (Germany) Duration 3’00” Equipment Panasonic FZ1000 Website facebook.com/ulanbatorfilm
TALL SHORTS 2016 (out of competition)
Abyss of Tenderness
The film manifests itself in consistently downward movement. Vertically projected, the spectator sinks into the animation. Objects, rooms and layers form a tableau vivant, a portrait.
Director Valentin Hennig (Germany) Duration 3’29” Website valentinhennig.de/
Cavallo
Vertical are the walls that we built with our own hands. They are blinders and we are like horses, letting them blind us.
Director, Writer, Editor Joana Maria Sousa (Portugal) Duration 3’09” DOP, Actress Rita Laranjeira
Voice-Over Giulia Siciliano Website vimeo.com/joanamariasousa
Le poids de Mendel (Defying Mendel)
A woman receives a diagnosis for bipolar disorder. The vertical frame serves to convey the feeling of claustrophobia when one is faced with the cruelty of modern-day psychiatry which denies the human being any control over his/her destiny.
Director, Writer, Producer Marie-Hélène Panisset (Canada) Duration 7’02” DOP Marc Simpson Threlford Editor Mathieu Demers Score Julien Knafo Exec. Producer Barbara Shrier Website lesfilmsdelhydre.com/
One Day
The transition of a day, seemingly static yet marked by a thousand details. Rothko and sound-images meet the documentary impulse. Time passes as the everyday is made abstract and ineffable.
Director Tara O’conal (South Australia) Duration 2’32” Sound Designer Robert Del Col Screenings Adelaide Film Festival / 9:16FF Prizes 2016 CACSA Emerging Artist Award (Helpmann Academy)
Rhapsody in Blueberry
A woman searches for her identity, which she finds is like swimming upstream.
Director Gaëlle Denis (France) Duration 3’59" Writers Gaëlle Denis & Amber Trentham Producers Nathalie Algazi, François Drouot & Marie Sonne-Jensen DOP Baptiste Chesnais Editor Dominic Leung
Website gaelledenis.com
Stand Up Tall
A short short film about heights and perspective.
Director Andreas Bense (Denmark) Duration 3’17” Cameraman Mads Castillo Assistant Amalie Tagmose Editor Janus Bjaaland Dahl Featuring Morten & Simon
Step by Step - My Way to the Top
Why do people climb? Why is it so important to get to the top anyway?
Director Andreas Bense (Denmark) Duration 2’32” Cameraman Mads Castillo Assistant Amalie Tagmose Editor Janus Bjaaland Dahl Featuring Primula, Anne and Mitchell
Tilt
An entertaining look at orientation.
Director Fred Cavender (France) Duration 1’37” Website tuperhero.com/
Bird Murderer
Gary is not having a good day when he feels he’s responsible for killing a bird.
Director Evan Moore (U.S.A.) Duration 3’10” Website vimeo.com/evanscottmoore
Girl
A young homeless woman spends her days chasing "that feeling". The vertical format makes us think about the space that these marginalised characters occupy in our society as well as on our screens.
Director & Writer Megan K. Fox (UK) Duration 3’01” Cinematographer Ben Calloway Cast Natalia Kostrzewa
Kabootarbaazi
A look into the pigeon fanciers of Old Delhi.
Director Eva Weber (UK) Duration 4’14" Producer Harriet Harper-Jones DOP Chloe Thomson Editor Tracy Granger Website oddgirlout.co.uk
Commissioned by Nespresso for its Talents 2016 competition. Watch here.
Purgot
A man wakes to find himself in a life preserver face-down on the shore of a desolate, disquieting beach.
Director, Writer, Editor Matthew Richards (NSW, Australia) Duration 3’37” Cast Daniel Bowden Cinematography Ryan Alexander-Lloyd Sound Design Ned Beckley Equipment Arricam Lite (35mm Kodak) Website fouranchorisland.com/
Self Destruction
Above a sea bound by ice, whales rise out of the blue infinity in the misty sky. Free and majestic they float over the water; the soul of the oceans. But man, in his baseness, weighs down upon these great spirits; he forgets the part of the blue eternity that is in himself — in his eyes.
Director Yaroslav Adamov (Russia) Duration 2’13” Cast Daria Kuligina Music Talking Bush
The Santa Maria
A lonely guy, dangerous gangsters, a beautiful policewoman, even more dangerous gangsters, a ship in a bottle: Our guy’s life gets turned around when he receives a mysterious letter that contains nothing but a treasure map. Suddenly, he finds himself in a dangerous adventure chasing the most precious treasure on earth. A vertical film noir. Shot in Berlin, Germany, 2016.
Director Erik Schmitt (Germany) Written by Folke Renken and Erik Schmitt DoP Johannes Louis Duration 4’35” Cast (IOOA) Guy: Fabian Busch Dangerous Gangster: Maxim Mehmet Corrupt Police Officer: Folke Renken Police Officer: Marleen Lohse Dame: Beate Maes Even more dangerous Gangsters: Bertan Canbeldek, Vasili Trigoudis, Florian Zumkehr Narrator Erik Vogel (ENG), Folke Renken (GER) Equipment Sony Alpha 7s, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s plus Website erikschmitt.de Distributor www.detailfilm.de
1ST Edition — 2014
ST. HILDA’S CHURCH
KATOOMBA STREET,
BLUE MOUNTAINS, AUSTRALIA
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER 2014
SCREENING 9:00-11:00PM
Festival program is available here (PDF).
The 1st Vertical Film Festival was run under the auspices of the Australian Climbing Festival.
ARCHIVE: 2014 1ST VERTICAL FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE
It's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who supported and attended the 1st Vertical Film Festival — especially to THE FILMMAKERS! — whose pioneering vertical works below will undoubtedly open the door to others in the future. Enjoy!
(On a mobile device, click on the little icon of four arrows on the bottom right to view full-screen.)
⇧THIS WAY UP⇧ (IN COMPETITION)
1ST PRIZE ⇧THIS WAY UP⇧ COMPETITION:
On a lonely beach Fish flops desperately, trapped by a yoke of plastic rings. Girl sees him and lovingly releases him. Both are transformed. As time passes they're propelled on a desperate search for their unlikely love. Magic awaits them.
Created by Ana María Méndez Salgado & Carlos Manrique Clavijo (Karu Karu Studio, Adelaide) (AU)
(Commissioned by 9:16 Film Festival, Adelaide) http://karu-karu.com/girlfish.html Duration 2’54
The movement and of the sea is extraordinary. I explore and document the sea as I recently moved back to Cyprus and aimed to create an audiovisual experience. The chromatic alterations of the water at sunrise/sunset are inspirational illusory forms.
Director Dimitra Karyopouli (CY) dimitrakaryopouli.weebly.com/ Duration 2’30
Deep Water Soloing while on our travels through some of Australia's most remote and beautiful locations: Far North WA & the Kimberley, 2014.
Director Goshen Watts (AU) Duration 2’57
Camera Panasonic DMC-GF5x
Returning from the hospital, Anita narrates the story of why her vision is now vertical. Travelling with her Mum, Dad and brother, getting a call from uncle, they meet with an accident while answering the phone.
Director Eelan Elanko (AU)
Actor Nishitha Sritharan Music Sathish Varshan Duration 2’59 Camera Canon 5D mk III
2ND PRIZE, ⇧THIS WAY UP⇧ :
An experimental video work exploring portraiture in a liminal and uncertain space.
Director Simon Baré (AU) Subjects Pete Conroy, Jenny Leonard, Ron Kelly , Amanda Stephens Lee, Sylvia Griffin, Nikki Walkerden Duration 2’31 Camera Canon 60D
Coming around and going around.
Director & Acting Kuesti Fraun (DE)
Camera Frank Lin Editing Chris Brandl
Production mobtik www.facebook.com/mobtik Duration 2’00 Camera Samsung Note 3
A simple tale of everything everyone loves on the internet: time travelling cats, DIY special effects and vertical video.
Directors Miriam Ross & Alfio Leotta (NZ)
miriamruthross.wordpress.com/vertical-media
Duration 1'11
BEST MOUNTAIN FILM, ⇧THIS WAY UP⇧:
Following a shadow of expectancy, making a mountain out of a mountain, shifting balance is found in suspension. Director, Editor & Performance Nikki Walkerden (AU) www.nikkiwalkerden.com Sound Shaun Hay Duration 2’31
An innocent climbing adventure turns bad, but can the wombats get themselves out of this scrape? Director Anna Fitzgerald (AU)
Lead climber Walter Wombat Second climber Wally Wombat Duration 2’56 Camera iPhone 5C
TALL SHORTS (OUT OF COMPETITION)
This was shown in the Festival out-of-competition as a work-in-progress edit (a montage of rushes material from a larger film about architect Jørn Utzon's inspirations from the natural world). To be completed in 2015.
Filmed & Edited by Adam Sébire
Camera Canon C100 Music Elena Kats-Chernin (Licensed from Boosey & Hawkes, London) Duration 3'21
A game of football turns deadly as an uninvited player joins in Directed by Sam Taylor and Bjorn Aschim for The Line Produced by Fritzi Nicolaus Sound & Music by Box of Toys Audio. This film was made over the last two years in our evenings, weekends and days off. We had no budget but a lot of help from our very talented and generous friends. Find links to their websites here and The Line studios here.
This is a part of Alicewinks the complete Alice's Adventures, available digitally in a number of places. From "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll Music Lucy Broadwood Imagery Gwenned Hudson, Maria Kirk, A.E. Jackson, W.H. Walker, & Arthur Rackham.
Director David Neal (US) www.alicewinks.com
Animation Brittney Owens & Melissa Guldbrand Dodd Duration 2’00
The Australian Climbing Festival and Vertical Film Festival organisers join up for a spot of canyoning in the Blue Mountains' Tiger Snake Canyon one winter's day.
Directors Adam Sebire & Natasha Sebire (AU) Kalimba Music SaReGaMa Duration 3’44
Cameras Canon C100 & 7D, GoPro3
The Future is now! Well at least people told us so in the nineties. We were promised jetpacks, Cities floating in the ocean and with the evolving of Ipads & tablets to be liberated from any kind of fixed video format. (Hilarious article: bit.ly/tallscreen & for real: gizmo.do/tallscreentwo) Since we can’t deliver the rocket backpack we at least bring you the first ever mountainbike tallscreen video. Thanks to Steffi Reisenauer @ Smartriders
Music: The Glitch Mob / We swarm
Shot on La Réunion Island http://vimeo.com/infinite
I was traveling into Adelaide city on a bus one day and saw the old Westpac building’s big brass door rising out of the ground as it was closing. It was very impressive. I had always wanted to see it in action again. Here was my opportunity. If I could get footage of that door, I’d make a film about .... um ..... doors. Director Matthew Gray (AU)
Documentary Commissioned for the 9:16 Film Festival, Port Adelaide 2014 (where it took out the 'Port Door' award). Duration 12’00
February 2 to 14, 2011. The birth, life and death of the huge icicle outside our kitchen window. It peaked at 12 inches in diameter. At the end, I singled out the frame where someone knocked off the ice with a broom handle. 11,280 photos taken at various intervals between 5 seconds and 300 seconds. This is my first tallscreen video.
Director Mike Sanders (US) Duration 1’11
Camera Canon A620 https://vimeo.com/mikess
Friends 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 live in a world where there is no alphabet - only numbers. One day, they decide they want something different from their orderly, black-and-white world. They set out to create each letter of the alphabet and bring colour, creativity and jellybeans to their world.
NB. Embedded here is a 45" teaser for the film, which is currently doing the film festival circuit and has been nominated for an Oscar.
Directors William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg (US)
Producers Lampton Enochs & Trish Farnsworth-Smith (Moonbot Studios) Duration 11’26
THE THAMES
A view from from a bridge in the straining winter sun, The Thames is at once a meditation on the passage of time and the timelessness of the river itself. Shot in a single take and accompanied by a specially composed soundtrack the video draws on the transformative powers of the camera to remind us of the complexities of simply looking. (Video not available).
Director Ryszard Dabek (AU) Duration 4’11
Set your day in motion. What can you fit in a day in the Blue Mountains?
Director Natasha Sebire (AU) www.natashasebire.info Starring Gemma Woldendorp Duration 3’47 Camera Canon C100
Visual impressions from today and daydreams from childhood, evoked by train traveling through space & time. More details.
Director Gregory Gutenko (US) (vimeo link) Duration 4’00 Media 1960s Super-8, HDV, iPhone