THE ATOMS OF REALITY
LES ATOMES DU RÉEL
It was like a dream, filled with grave perfumes, with limpidity and sensuous chimes. A misplaced device in a turbid instant where the mechanisms of humility ring out. A crack obscurely revealing the entrails of nothingness. The memory of surfaces hit by translucent instruments. A well where the atoms of reality loudly dissolve. It was like a dream, filled with grave perfumes.
Director: Marco Joubert
Country: Canada
Year: 2020
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: PROGRAM 3
*Streaming available on TAFFNY Virtual Cinema June 23 from 10AM - 10PM
EXPONENTIALS
Through different languages, this experimental work uses visual and sound poetry, presenting images and a non-linear flow of words in a context of exponential equations, making an integrated use of the word, the meaning of the word, and the sound of the word.
Director: Khalil Charif, Cristina Amiran
Country: Brazil
Year: 2021
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: PROGRAM 2
*Streaming available on TAFFNY Virtual Cinema June 22 from 10AM - 10PM
ISADORA'S KARAOKÊ
O KARAOKÊ DA ISADORA
Alone in the quarantine, Isadora sings.
Director: Thiago B. Mendonça
Country: Brazil, Portugal
Year: 2021
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: PROGRAM 1
*Streaming available on TAFFNY Virtual Cinema June 21 from 10AM - 10PM
METAMORPHOSIS
METAMORFOSIS
A free adaptation of the homonymous book by Franz Kafka. Society leads to the destruction of the person by killing his spirit. Who are the beetles?
Director: Luis Carney
Country: Mexico
Year: 2019
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: PROGRAM 4
*Streaming available on TAFFNY Virtual Cinema June 24 from 10AM - 10PM
MY FATHER ADONAI
MEU PAI ADONAI
The explosive story of Adonai, one of the greatest Brazilian soccer players of all time who at the height of his career, working for Juventus in Italy, became involved with the Italian mafia and rampant drug use. Adonai finished his life selling snacks in a trailer in Venice in Piazza San Marco.
Director: Luiz Fernando Machado
Country: Brazil, Italy
Year: 2017
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: PROGRAM 1
*Streaming available on TAFFNY Virtual Cinema June 21 from 10AM - 10PM
SALVAGE
Salvage questions the allure of old objects by reimagining obsolete tools as reliquaries haunted by the souls of disgruntled workers who resent their new jobs. This hybrid intersectional documentary uses magic realism to critique the inequities of gender, ethnicity, and class that underpin consumer capitalism.
Director: Christopher Boulton
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2020
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: PROGRAM 4
*Streaming available on TAFFNY Virtual Cinema June 24 from 10AM - 10PM
SMALL HOURS
This video clip shows how a couple is going through the quarantine process during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as their daily routine, tedium, dancing, games, all in a medium post-apocalyptic style represented in zentai suits.
Director: Marcelo Sanhueza Olbeles
Country: Chile
Year: 2020
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: PROGRAM 2
*Streaming available on TAFFNY Virtual Cinema June 22 from 10AM - 10PM
