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Top 10 – court métrage 2015

par Philippe Gajan

Top 10 – courts métrages 2015

À l’appel de Dan Karolewicz (Festival du nouveau cinéma), une vingtaine de programmateurs de courts métrages de festivals aux quatre coins du monde, ont accepté de partager leur liste. Un exercice périlleux qui a cependant le mérite de mettre en lumière la diversité d’un format dont on a souvent signalé l’audace et la richesse mais qui peinait (avant le web…) à trouver ses écrans. Malgré la profusion des titres et des genres, certains films se sont démarqués et se sont retrouvés dans plusieurs de ces listes.

Dan Karolewicz (Festival du nouveau cinéma) has asked to more than twenty short film programmers from festivals around the world to share a list of some of their favourites of the year. A perilous exercise which has the merit of highlighting the diversity of a format which has often been reported as daring and wealthy but struggled (before the web …) to find its screens. Despite the profusion of titles and genres, some movies have distinguished by hitting several of these lists.

Voici donc un «palmarès» qui assume sa subjectivité / Here’s a very «sujective» palmares :

7 mentions

The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky, Autriche)

5 mentions

Blood Below the Skin (Jennifer Reeder, USA)

4 mentions

The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music (The Propeller Group, Vietnam)
World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)
Notre-Dame des hormones (Bertrand Mandico, France)

3 mentions

brouillard – passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, Québec/Canada)
Sonámbulo (Theodore Ushev, Québec/Canada)
Symbolic Threats (Mischa Leinkauf/Lutz Henke/Matthias Wermke, Allemagne)
Rate Me (Fyzal Boulifa, Royaume-Uni)
Edmond (Nina Gantz, Royaume-Uni)
Mynarski chute mortelle (Matthew Rankin, Québec/Canada)
Quintal (André Novais Oliveira, Brésil)
Kung Fury (David Sandberg, Suède)
Zeus (Pavel Vesnakov, Allemagne/Bulgarie)
La Impresión De Una Guerra (Camilo Restrepo, France/Colombia)
Moon Blink (Rainer Kohlberger, Autriche/Allemagne)

Merci mille fois à tous ceux qui ont accepté ! / Many thanks to the «players» !

Laurence Reymond (La Quinzaine des réalisateurs, Cannes, France) – John Canciani (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Suisse) – Miguel Valverde (IndieLisboa – Portugal) – Sven Schwarz (Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany) – Julian Ross (IFF Rotterdam, Netherlands) – Nina Rodriguez (Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexique) – Hervé Le Phuez (FIFF Namur – Belgique) – Nelson MacDonald (Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival (HIFF), Canada) – Seigo Tono (Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Tokyo, Japan) – Daniel Ebner (VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Autriche) – Curtis Woloschuk (Vancouver IFF, Canada) – Jessica Murwin (Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, Canada) – Salette Ramalho (Curtas Metragens, Vila do Conde, Portugal) – Danny Lennon (PCC/Centre PHI, Montréal, Québec/Canada) – Marina Kozul (25FPS, Zagreb, Croatie) – Philippe Gajan (Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Québec/Canada) – Penelope Bartlett (Chicago IFF, USA) – Dan Karo (Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal, Québec/Canada) – Gonzalo De Pedro Amatria (Locarno; Margenes.org; Valdivia, Chile) – Jukka-Pekka Lakso (Tampere International Film Festival, Finlande) – Mike Plante (Sundance, USA) – Massimiliano Nardulli (Biarritz Amérique latine, France; Arcipelago, Italie; Next, Roumanie,Timishort, Roumanie) – Sérgio Gomes (Porto/Post/Doc, Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal) – Alessandro Marcionni (Locarno, Suisse)

Et voici les listes / And Here’s the individual lists :

Laurence Reymond – La Quinzaine des réalisateurs, Cannes, France

The Pride of Strathmoor de Einar Baldvin (Islande/États-Unis)
The Exquisite Corpus de Peter Tscherkassky (Autriche)
Antonio, lindo Antonio de Ana Maria Gomes (France)
Teeth de Tom Brown et Daniel Gray (Hongrie/États-Unis/Royaume-Uni)
Mynarski chute mortelle de Matthew Rankin (Québec/Canada)
Rate Me de Fyzal Boulifa (Royaume-Uni)
Brouillard#15 de Alexandre Larose (Québec/Canada)
Quintal de André Novais Oliveira (Brésil)
Sobre el cielo de Jorge Quintela (Portugal)
Notre-Dame des Hormones de Bertrand Mandico (France)
A Torre de Salomé Lamas (Portugal)

John Canciani – Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Suisse

The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music (The Propeller Group, Vietnam)
Symbolic Threats (Lutz Henke / Matthias Wernke / Mischa Leinkauf, Germany)
9 Days – From My Window in Aleppo (Thomas Vroege / Floor van der Meulen, Syria / Netherlands)
O som da casa (Maxime Kathari, Switzerland)
Noite sem Distancia (Lois Patino, Portugal)
«[…]Craving for Narrative» lässt sich einfach nicht gut übersetzen (Max Grau, Germany)
Junilyn Has (Carlo Francisco Manatad, Philippines)
brouillard – passage #14 (Alexandre Larose, Canada)
Une histoire simple, la mienne, la tienne et celle de M. (Atefeh Yarmohammadi, Switzerland)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)

Miguel Valverde – Director de IndieLisboa – Portugal

Buffalo Juggalos, by Scott Cummings (USA)
End of Summer, by Johann Johansson (Iceland/Denmark)
Hosanna, by Na Young-kil (South Korea)
Quintal, André Novais Oliveira (Brazil)
Seven times a day we bemoan our lot and at night we get up to avoid dreaming, by Susann Maria Hempel (Germany)
Shipwreck, by Morgan Knibbe (Netherlands)
Yen Yen, by Chunni Lin (Taiwan)
The living need light, the dead need music, by The Propeller Group (Vietnam/USA)
Me and my Moulton, by Torill Kove (Norway)
Le repas dominical, by Céline Devaux (France)
The Mesh and the circle, by Francisco Queimadela e Mariana Caló (Portugal)

Sven Schwarz (Managing Director at Hamburg International Short Film Festival and Member of A Wall is a Screen), Germany

Symbolic Threats (Germany 2015, Dirs. Mischa Leinkauf, Matthias Wermke, LutzHenke)
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, (Vietnam 2015 Dir:The Propeller Group)
Moonblink (Austria 2015, Rainer Kohlberger)
Blood below the Skin (USA 2015, Dir. Jennifer Reeder)
Freedom & Independence (Germany 2015, Dir.: Björn Melhus)
The Meadow (Switzerland 2015, Dir.: Jela Hasler)
Brouillard Passage # 14 (Canada 2014, Dir.: Alexandre Larose)
Onni (Finland 2014, Dir.: Sanna Liljander)
Our Fathers’ Sons – (Denmark 2015, Dir.: Ulaa Salim)
Kung Fury – (Sweden 2015, Dir.: David Sandberg)

Julian Ross – Programmer – IFF Rotterdam, Netherlands

Escape Scenes (Julia Feyrer, Canada, 2014)
Blue and Red (Zhou Tao, Spain/Thailand, 2014)
The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music (The Propeller Group, Vietnam, 2014)
The Park (Randa Maroufi, France, 2015)
The Many Colors of the Sky Radiate Forgetfulness (Basim Magdy, Egypt/Germany, 2015)
moon blink (Rainer Kohlberger, Austria, 2015)
Buffalo Juggalos (Scott Cummings, USA, 2014)
Black Rain White Scars (Lukas Marxt, Austria, 2014)
Field Notes (Vashti Harrison, USA, 2014)
We Only Guarantee the Dinosaurs (Esperanza Collado, Spain, 2014) [performance]

Nina Rodriguez – Directrice de la programmation – Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexique

EDMOND by Nina Gantz, UK
THE HORSE RAISED BY SPHERES by David O Reilly, US
LIFE WITH HERMAN H. ROTT by Chintis Lundgren, Croatia
THE MAD HALF HOUR by Leonardo Brzezcki, Argentina
MALAGUTI PHANTOM by Sam de Jong, Netherlands
MANOMAN by Simon Cartwright, UK
PAULINA by Ricardo León,Peru
PRESENTE IMPERFECTO by Iair Said, Argentina
RATE ME by Fyzal Boulifa, UK
WORLD OF TOMORROW by Don Hertzfeld, US

Hervé Le Phuez – Programmateur/coordo FIFF Namur – Belgique (uniquement des courts en provenance des pays de l’OIF, Organisme International de la Francophonie.)

TON CŒUR AU HASARD de Aude Léa Rapin
REPAS DOMINICAL de Céline Devaux
WAVES 98 d’Ely Dagher
ERRANCE de Peter Dourountzis
NELSON de Juliette Klinke et Thomas Xhignesse
LE DERNIER DES CEFRANS de Pierre Emmanuel Urcun
PERDITION COUNTY de Raphaël Crombez
DERNIERE PORTE AU SUD de Sacha Feiner
SONAMBULO de Theodore Ushev
LA RIVIERE SOUS LA LANGUE de Carmen Jacquier

Nelson MacDonald – programmer for the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival (HIFF), Canada

STAR Emilie Mannering (Canada)
DRIVING LESSON Marco Leão & Andre Santos (Portugal)
GRAMINOIDS Demelza Kooij & Lars Loens (Scotland)
CAVALIER SEUL Mathilde Delaunay (France)
FRANCIS Ahmed Abdullahi (Sweden)
WIND THROUGH A TREE Seth Smith (Canada)
ALWAYS TIRED Jochen Kuhn (Germany)
DEMONTABLE Douwe Dijkstra (Netherlands)
A FEW SECONDS Nora El Hourch (France)
MAINSQUEEZE Jon Rafman (Canada)

Seigo Tono – Director Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Tokyo, Japan.

Bendito Machine V- Pull the Trigger by Jossie Malis/Spain
The Fish of My Life by Julius Sičiūnas/Lithuania
A Warm Spell by Toshimichi Saito/Japan
Dissonance by Till Nowak/Germany
I’m Not Done by Ronny Dörfler/USA
Father by Lotfi Achour/Tunisia
The Chicken by Una Gunjak /Germany, Croatia
Bang Bang! by Julian Bisaro /France
Luma /Israel by Sohini Tal & Carmel Ben Ami
illustration: compositing by Elise Auffray/France

Daniel Ebner – Directeur Artistique – VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, Autriche

World of Tomorrow, Don Hertzfeldt, États-Unis
Symbolic Threats, Mischa Leinkauf/Lutz Henke/Matthias Wermke, Allemagne
Unhappy Happy, Peter Millard, Royaume-Uni
Black, Anouk De Clercq, Belgique
Objet (Obiekt), Paulina Skibinska, Pologne
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles wird gut), Patrick Vollrath, Autriche
Moon Blink, Rainer Kohlberger, Autriche
Greetings to the Ancestors, Ben Russell, Royaume-Uni/Afrique du Sud/États-Unis
The Reflection of Power, Mihai Grecu, France
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos, Konstantin Bronzit, Russie

Curtis Woloschuk – Canadian Images Shorts & Altered States Programmer Vancouver IFF, Canada (Canadians shorts)

Balmoral Hotel (dir. Wayne Wapeemukwa)
Crazy House (dir. Aaron Mirkin) Lewis (dir. Fantavious Fritz)
Never Steady, Never Still (dir. Kathleen Hepburn)
Ocean Falls (dirs. Ryan Ermacora, Jessica Johnson)
She Stoops to Conquer (dir. Zachary Russell)
The Sleepwalker (dir. Theodore Ushev)
Star (dir. Emilie Mannering)
Wind Through a Tree (dir. Seth Smith)
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum (dirs. Chelsea McMullan, Douglas Nayler)

Jessica Murwin – Shorts Programmer Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, Canada

Pop-up Porno – M4M (dir. Stephen Dunn / Canada)
Good Hands (dir. Francisco Bendomir / Argentina)
Unknown Unknown (dir. Ed Flynn / USA)
Mynarski Death Plummet (dir. Matthew Rankin / Canada)
Luk’Luk’l: Mother (dir. Wayne Wapeemukwa / Canada)
Mai’ (dir. Amanda Strong / Canada)
Notre-Dame des Hormones (dir. Bertrand Mandico / France)
The Rarebit Fiend (dir. Jeffery St Jules / Canada)
Blood Below the Skin (dir. Jennifer Reeder / USA)
She Stoops to Conquer (dir. Zachary Russell / Canada)
Honorable mention to: Un Peu Comme Simone (dir. Sarah Pellerin / Canada)

Salette Ramalho – CURTAS METRAGENS CRL, Vila do Conde, Portugal

LA IMPRESIÓN DE UNA GUERRA, Camilo Restrepo
IEC LONG, João Rui Guerra da Mata, João Pedro Rodrigues, 2014
BROUILLARD PASSAGE #14 Alexandre Larose
THE EXQUISITE CORPUS by Peter Tscherkassky
MINARSKY CHUTE MORTELLE, Mathiew Rankin
BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN, Jennifer Reeder
MARIA DO MAR, João Rosas
NUEVA VIDA, Kiro Russo
SONAMBULO, Theodore Ushev
BUNKER, Sandro Aguilar

Danny Lennon – Fondateur PCC/Centre PHI Programmer, Montréal, Québec/Canada

AVE MARIA de Basil Khalil (Palestine) BÄR de Pascal Floerks (Allemagne)
BLACK FRIDAY de Roxana Stoe (Roumanie)
CONCERNING THE BODYGUARD de Kasra Farahani (États-Unis)
EDMOND de Nina Gantz (Royaume-Uni) KUNG FURY de David Sandberg (Suède)
OH GALLOW LAY de Julian Wayser (États-Unis)
THE SUBSTITUTE de Nathan Hughes-Berry (Canada-Islande)
VIOLENCE EN RÉUNION de Karim Boukercha (France)
ZEUS de Pavel Vesnakov (Allemagne)

Du côté québécois en ordre alphabétique:

BLEU TONNERRE de Philippe David Gagné et Jean-Marc E. Roy
CHELEM de Charles Grenier
CE QU’IL RESTE de Jérémy Comte
12 SEMAINES de Marc-André Girard
IMELDA de Martin Villeneuve
LE ROI DE LA MONTAGNE de Anh Minh Truong
VIADUC de Patrice Laliberté

Marina Kozul – Programmer 25FPS, Zagreb, Croatie

Eden’s Edge, O.N.L.S.D/Leo Calice, Gerhard Treml (AT/US)
The Exquisite Corpus, Peter Tscherkassky (AT)
Fictitious Force, Philip Widmann (DE)
Greetings to the Ancestors, Ben Russell (US/SZ)
Kosmos, Ruben Desiere (BE)
My Dad, Marcus Armitage (UK)
Le park, Randa Maroufi (FR)
Piknik, Jure Pavlović (HR)
Quiet Zone, David Bryant, Karl Lemieux (CA)
World of Tomorrow, Don Hertzfeldt (US)

Philippe Gajan – Festival du nouveau cinéma – Montréal, Québec/Canada

The Exquisite Corpus de Peter Tscherkassky (Autriche)
World of Tomorrow de Don Hertzfeldt (États-Unis)
War Prayer de Richard Wiebe (États-Unis)
Notre-Dame des Hormones de Bertrand Mandico (France)
Les Brigands de l’hôtel bleu de Olivier Godin (Québec/Canada)
Dream Enclosure de Sandy Ding (Chine)
Engram of Returning de Daïchi Saïto (Québec/Canada)
Vita Brevis de Thierry Knauff (Belgique)
Uncanny Valley de Paul Wenninger (France/Autriche)
Yellow Fieber de Konstantina Kotzamani (Grèce)

Penelope Bartlett – Chicago IFF – USA

Sleepover LA, Lily Baldwin, USA
Aissa, Clément Tréhin-Lalanne, France
Blood Below the Skin, Jennifer Reeder, USA (full disclosure, I associate produced this)
Hole, Martin Edralin, Canada
Oh Lucy! Atsuko Hirayanagi, Japan
World of Tomorrow, Don Herzfeldt, USA
Rate Me, Fyzal Boulifa, UK
The Karman Line, Oscar Sharp, UK
Shipwreck, Morgan Knibbe, Netherlands/Italy
Turtle, Jordan Schiele, China/Singapore/USA

Dan Karo – Festival du nouveau cinéma – Montréal, Québec/Canada

La Voce, David Uloth, Canada
Aula de condução, André Santos et Marco Leão (Portugal)
The Exquisite Corpus, Peter Tscherkassky (Autriche)
Layla va hezi, Itamar Lapid, (Israël)
Mynarski Chute Mortelle, Matthew Rankin (Canada)
Anóme, Lena Ditte Nissen, (Allemagne)
Cavalier seul, Mathilde Delaunay (France)
Quiet Zone, David Bryant et Karl Lemieux (Canada)
Notre-Dame des Hormones, Bertrand Mandico (France)
Bunker, Sandro Aguilar (Portugal)

Gonzalo De Pedro Amatria – Programmer in Locarno, artistic director of Margenes.org (an online film festival), programmer in Festival de Valdivia (Chile)

La impresión de una guerra (Camilo Restrepo, France / Colombia, 2015)
Ah, Humanity! (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, Ernst Karel, USA, 2014)
Noite Sem Distância (Night without distance) (Lois Patiño, Spain / Portugal, 2015)
Vivir para Vivir (Live to Live) (Laida Lertxundi, USA / Spain, 2015)
Sin dios ni Santa María (Neither God Nor Santa María) (Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón, Spain, 2015)
Eco (Xacio Baño, España, 2015)
Nueva vida (New Life) (Kiro Russo, Argentina / Bolivia, 2014)
Yolo (Ben Russell, South Africa, 2015)
Gulliver (Maria Alché, Argentina, 2015)
Triptych (Los ingrávidos, México, 2015)
Bonus track: Vivir para Vivir (Live to Live) (Laida Lertxundi, USA / Spain, 2015) + Mainsqueeze (Jon Rafman, Canada, 2015)

Jukka-Pekka Lakso – Directeur de Tampere International Film Festival, Finlande

The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, Dir:The Propeller Group, (Vietnam)
Edmond, Nina Ganz (UK)
OBIEKT, Paulina Skibinska (Poland)
Swizzair, Nugo Radi, (Swizerland)
LISTEN, Hamy Ramezan and Myoni Rungano (Denmark/Finland)
Small Talk, Even Hafnor & Lisa Brooke Hansen, (Norway)
Seven times a day we bemoan our lot and at night we get up to avoid dreaming , Susann Maria Hempel (Germany)
Among us, Guido Hendrikx (Netherlands)
Planet Σ , Momoko Seto (France)

Mike Plante (Sundance, USA)

Abandoned Goods (Edward Lawrenson, Pia Borg)
Belladonna (Dubravka Turic)
Gary Has an AIDS Scare (Joe Callander)
J’ai oublié (I Forgot) (Eduardo Williams, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart)
A Million Miles Away (Jennifer Reeder)
Mulignans (Shaka King)
OBIEKT, Paulina Skibinska (Poland)
OM Rider (Takeshi Murata)
on summer (Cam Archer)
A Woman and her car (Elle pis son char) (Lucie and Loïc Darses)

Massimiliano Nardulli ( FESTIVAL DE BIARRITZ AMERIQUE LATINE(FRANCE), ARCIPELAGO, FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DI CORTOMETRAGGI E NUOVE IMMAGINI(ITALY), NEXT(ROMANIA), As Artistic Director I do TIMISHORT(ROMANIA)