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SJIWFF27 Presents: Evening Shorts
October 21, 2016
October 21st, 7pm-8.30pm – LSPU Hall –
The Truck
DIRECTOR: Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers
WRITER: Maryse Latendresse
SYNOPSIS: A day. An hour. A basement. Olivier and Sophie, both in a relationship, decide to cheat on their partners together. They were sure they had all figured out.
Nutag-Homeland
WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Alisi Telengut
RUNTIME: 6min
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: A visual poem and surrealist requiem for the Kalmyk people that were mass-deported by USSR from 1943-1957. Half of them died before they were allowed to return home. The film manifests itself as an archetype with frame-by-frame hand painted imagery, bringing back an example of human history on the eternal theme of diaspora and the loss of homeland.
Oscar
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Julie Roy
PRODUCERS: Marc Bertrand, Jocelyne Perrier, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
RUNTIME: 12min8sec
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: Mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Oscar is a touching portrait of the virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson at the twilight of an exceptional career, as he wistfully meditates on the price of fame and the impacts of the artist’s life on family life.
Ingrid and the Black Hole
WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Leah Johnston
PRODUCER: Walter Forsyth
RUNTIME: 6min 41sec
COUNTRY:CANADA
SYNOPSIS: Two children experience a lifetime together when they imagine what it would be like to travel through a black hole.
Swimming in the Imaginary
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Susan Wolf
RUNTIME: 1min
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: A dream in the landscape of the mind.
Commissioned by the Toronto Animated Image Society as part of the TAIS ABCs Residency. Participating animators were asked to create a one-minute short with the loose theme, “animate how you animate.” Swimming in the Imaginary is a symbolic and metaphorical take on the process of generating ideas for an animation. Animated by hand under camera at the Toronto Animated Image Society, February 14 – 20th, 2016.
A Different Way
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Felicity Justrabro
PRODUCER: Michael Flax & Tricia Mcleod
COUNTRY: Canada
RUNTIME: 5 min
SYNOPSIS: Luke Anderson wasn’t born with quadriplegia. Thirteen years ago, he went for a mountain bike ride that changed his life. Following another rider, he attempted a jump across a 25-foot opening, but instead, he missed the transition and broke two vertebrae in his spine. As Luke began his new way of life as wheelchair user, dating didn’t seem possible. A Different Way explores how Luke confronted his fears and began embracing personal relationships again.
Breakfast
WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Sonja Steyn
RUNTIME: 3MIN 42SEC
COUNTRY: Australia
SYNOPSIS: Inspired by a well-known poem Déjeuner Du Matin by Jacques Prévert, this wordless short film is a domestic scene between a wife and her husband. The painful dullness of routined life and love echoes in her silence as she deals with her heartbreak.
Steps
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Noémie Brassard
PRODUCER: Claudine Thériault
RUNTIME: 8min04sec
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: Steps presents 10-year-old Josephine, who has one foot in childhood and the other in adolescence. Astonishingly brilliant, but mainly charming, she puts into words the changes happening inside her as well as around her; her body, her relationships, her imagination.
High Tea
WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Lulu Keating
RUNTIME: 2min 23sec
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: In her old age, a woman rediscovers forbidden joy.
In So many Words
WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Emily Bridger
RUNTIME: 9min 41sec
COUNTRY: Canada/NL
SYNOPSIS: Two nearly-former lovers in the last conversation of their affair. He wants a clean out; she wants to savour any remaining romance.
Assini
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Gail Maurice
RUNTIME: 12min 47sec
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: Assini and her friends love to play Cowboys & Indians – but nobody wants to be the Indian. When Assini learns that she’s an Indian, her world changes forever.