Here's another 10-minute short, 3 years old, "Our Hands Are Not Tied", about HIV in Africa, from CabriniCom.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tribeca's "Fallout" shorts program examines challenging political and personal situations
Tribeca Film Festival hosts a number of shorts programs, and
the sequence called “Fallout” comprised seven short films, about equal in length,
that deal mostly with serious political issues, some of an existential nature.
The presentation saved the best for last. “All that Way for
Love” presents a young Brit Simon (Andrew
Simpson) hitching a ride in Kenya with a troubled older couple (Derek de Lint
and Belinda Stewart-Wilson). He gives in
to procreative instinct when tempted.
The resulting fallout from “The War of the Roses” is a lesson on why HIV
infection is a largely heterosexual disease in Africa and why it became deadly
so quickly. You still wish Simon
well. He has absolutely eye-popping looks
(and the world’s hairiest chest). The
young British director, Henry Mason, said in the forum afterward that the
concept came from writer Thomas Martin. Of course, we know that in nearby
Uganda the Kony 2012 matter persists, as does some virulently anti-gay legislation
in Parliament. The film has a
particularly cheery look at the beginning.
“Transmission”, directed by Zak Hildicth, sounds like a
postscript to the WB apocalyptic film “Carriers”.
Here, a father an young daughter drive east from Perth into the
Australian outback, among the few survivors left from a worldwide pandemic. The
scenery is interesting in its monotony; Australia does not have a towering West
like the US. The pair are almost waylaid
by a drifter who feigns needing help, and the little girl learns to drive a car
herself and could wind up the world’s last survivor. I wanted to see what the intentional
community they were trying to reach would look like.
“Easter Eggs” (Slobodan Karajlovic) presents a mother in
1970s Yugoslavia hiding a Christian Easter celebration from her communist
(Tito-ist) husband, who uses communism to back a patriarchal attitude. The short could serve as a companion piece to
Strand Releasing’s “Cirkus Columbia” about pre-war Bosnia.
“Chupachups” (Ji-suk Kyung) has a female soldier helping
guard the border with North Korea returning for a visit with her friend (in a South Korea small town).
“Adirake” (Tati Barrantes, Andinh Ha) shows a Thai girl
orphaned by the 2004 tsunami looking for a white elephant. The Thailand Monarchy is credited with helping orphans, but the Thailand Monarchy is also "protected" under Thai law by the "lese majeste" doctrine which severely punishes insulting the monarchy online.
“Foxes” (Lorcan Finnegan) shows a married couple in a
real-estate-bubble complex in Ireland, with a wife sinking into schizophrenia
and a husband worried about bankruptcy.
As foxes visit, the mood becomes horrific. Is the wife turning into a fox? The movie trends to horror and an other-wordly effect at the end. This concept was original with the director.
“Trotteur” (Arnaud Brisebois, Francis Leclerc, Quebec) has a
young man outrunning a steam engine locomotive in a wintry landscape suggesting
allegory with the Holocaust.
The presentation, at the Clearview in Chelsea, was cropped
to show anamorphic widescreen; all but the first two (Asian) films were shot
2.35:1.
Here's another 10-minute short, 3 years old, "Our Hands Are Not Tied", about HIV in Africa, from CabriniCom.
Here's another 10-minute short, 3 years old, "Our Hands Are Not Tied", about HIV in Africa, from CabriniCom.
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