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Sacris Pulso

Toward an Aesthetic of Displacement in Ana Vaz’s Sacris Pulso

Oana Chivoiu
September 2013
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In 2007, when young and talented director Ana Vaz was a student at RMIT University in Melbourne she debuted with the experimental short film Sacris Pulso. At that time, she was personally familiar with the expe...
Free Fall

Free Fall: Lipsett is the Shaman, Film is the Ritual

Amelia Does
August 2013
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Arthur Lipsett’s nine-minute experimental film Free Fall (1964) is exemplary of what might be considered both an artistic and a spiritual project. Although he may not have fully realised it, Lipsett was using m...
The Smell of Burning Ants

The Smell of Burning Ants

Holly Willis
August 2013
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In 1994, a 22-minute film appeared that at once announced a new, prodigious filmmaking talent and helped bring renewed attention to serious short-form filmmaking in the United States. The film was The Smell of ...

After Cinema, Back to Celluloid: The 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Tara Judah
June 2013
Festival Reports
The very existence of this unique six-day festival is a provocation. The oldest short film festival in the world, Oberhausen was established in 1962, when 26 young West-German filmmakers wrote a manifesto that ...

All Creatures Great and Small: The 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Sirkka Moeller
June 2011
Festival Reports
After 57 years of running a short film festival you’d think that the organisers of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival would know exactly what short film is. However, the festival’s website has sma...

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