The Journal of Short Film releases Volume 8 (Summer 2007)
The Journal …
The Journal of Short Film releases Volume 8 (Summer 2007)
The Journal was pleased to host Chicago-based filmmaker Deborah Stratman as a guest editor for Volume 8.
1. LAMPA CU CACIULA (THE TUBE WITH A HAT) Radu Jude [Romania] (2006) A father and son have their TV set fixed for the afternoon movie.
2. THE BOY IN THE AIR Lyn Elliot (2005) An enigmatic advertisement inspires a letter. The corporation writes back.
3. MANUELLE LABOR Marie Losier (2007) A collaboration with Guy Maddin leads to a birthing scene unlike any other.
4. ART/WORK Avram Dodson (2006) A realistic look at the relationship between the artist and the day job.
5. FLIP-FILM Ellen Ugelstad and Alfonso Alvarez (1999) A staccato peek at San Francisco from the inside of a bus.
6. MARDHA HAMDIGAR RA BEHTAR MIFAHMAND (MEN UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER) Marjan Alizadeh [Iran] (2007) Two men and a woman: it seems men understand each other better.
7. UNIFIED FIELDS Brandon Walley (2006) An odd sense of interconnectedness yet isolation.
8. OUTERBOROUGH Bill Morrison (2005) A split-screen extrapolation of crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899.
9. NOTHINGNESS Arzu Ozkal Telhan (2005) Nothingness is about resignation; an unwilling state of existence under the weight of insatiable humanity.
10. MARTIN Bill Basquin (2004)
A poetic portrait of a sheep shearer.
11. TO THE SOUTH WAS 72 - Sabine Gruffat (2005) personal guided tour of the largest prehistoric city north of Mexico. -Anonymous
