The association Héliotrope, organizer of the Nice short film festival, presents “Two days is too short” on April 14 and 15, 2011. At the Rialto cinema and the auditorium of the MAMAC, the association celebrates spring and marks the date change of “A festival is too short”, which will take place in autumn from October 18 to 23, 2011.
“Two days is too short” offers schools (from kindergarten to high school) and students two days of screenings and debates to explore the world of short films and interact with invited professionals.
At the conclusion of these two days, the association organizes a session for the general public (starting from age 12) with the screening of the European program CROSSING BORDERS #2 AT THE BORDER. A selection of short films from all over Europe from Ireland to Austria, through Spain, Germany, and Lithuania. A European program that sets the tone for the upcoming edition of “A festival is too short” by bringing together different storytelling techniques, documentary, fiction, animation, and experimental. On this occasion, the festival will unveil the visual and the trailer of the 11th edition.
PROGRAM
Crossing Borders #2 / At the border / Friday April 15, 2011 – Rialto Cinema at 8 p.m.
New European cinematographic insights
After the screening of Crossing Borders #1 at the 10th festival, the organizers repeat this edition which includes 8 European films including the 2010 Grand Jury Prize: “Notes on the others” by Sergio Oksman.
Crossing Borders / At the border aims to highlight new cinematic forms by mixing different storytelling techniques while breaking free from the inherent boundaries of a genre or the cultural identity of the author. With these double barriers crossed, the new films in this collection broaden the viewer’s perspective on a new European cinematic horizon that is virtuosic, surprising, and constantly renewed. This second program enriches the collection with eight new films and ensures the representativeness and alternation of film genres as well as the member countries of the European Union.
Film From My Parish – 6 Farms Tony Donoghue
(Ireland / 2008 / Documentary / Original Version with French Subtitles / 7’10)
County Tipperary, Ireland. Six farms, six stories, and a camera witnessing past and present life.
Rita Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
(Italy / 2009 / Fiction / Original Version with French Subtitles / 18’30)
Rita, 10 years old, has been blind from birth. A young fugitive intrudes into her claustrophobic world. Their enigmatic encounter offers Rita a brief moment of freedom.
-Please Say Something David O’Reilly
(Ireland-Germany / 2009 / Animation / Original Version with French Subtitles / 10’)
In a distant future, a turbulent love story between a cat and a mouse.
- Notes On the Other by Sergio Oksman
(Spain / 2009 / Documentary / Original Version with French Subtitles / 13’)
Grand Jury Prize and Special Prize 10th Nice short film festival.
Every summer, a crowd of Ernest Hemingway look-alikes flock to Key West, Florida to elect the “authentic Hemingway”. In 1924, Hemingway himself had desired to be someone else…
Videogioco (Loop Experiment) by Donato Sansone
(Italy / 2009 / Animation / No dialogue / 1’30)
A grotesque, funny, and trashy event is abruptly cut short.
Mrdr Chain by Ondrej Svadiena
(Czech Republic-France / 2010 / Animation / No dialogue / 10’)
The adventures of Sliceman in the dark and unsettling territory of chain murders.
Synchronization by Rimas Sakalauskas
(Lithuania / 2008 / Experimental / No dialogue / 8’)
Images from childhood, monumental structures from the Soviet era. An impossible yet coherent and harmonious association.
Seemannstreue by Anna Kalus-Gossner
(Austria-Germany / 2008 / Animation / No dialogue / 11’)
A young girl fishes by the sea. She meets a sailor. Both fly away on a winged horse.
Programs reserved for young audiences
School Sessions
Thursday 14 and Friday 15 April 2011 – At the MAMAC Auditorium. At the heart of this project, artistic education constitutes a tool for familiarization with images. Flexible and adaptable devices will be set up depending on the students’ levels: within the institution, in the form of awareness interventions, artistic practice workshops, and in the cinema for guided sessions, commentaries, or meetings with cultural professionals.
The entirety of this programming is an opportunity to offer a welcome and support to students in the discovery of cinematographic works.
Based on dialogue, sharing, and exchange, the mediation approach allows the class to appropriate the keys to understanding a work while sharpening their critical sense. The establishment of special meetings with the cultural world (professionals, dissemination spaces, artists) thus brings the students to develop personal discourse on an aesthetic experience.
Participants explore the creative processes through awareness of a technique and the creation of a collective work. These multidisciplinary workshops are intended throughout the year for audiences of different levels in educational establishments, within the framework of the artistic and cultural education plan.
Kindergarten / Primary
Program All Aboard
Thursday April 14, 2011 – At the MAMAC Auditorium at 9 a.m. / 10:30 a.m. / 1 p.m. / 2:30 p.m.
Program duration: 1h03
The same program, two readings coming from the little North…
The youngest will be charmed by these stories and the forms that animate them, and the older ones will question the animation techniques, the creation of movement: a fundamental principle of cinema, the themes addressed, and the lessons to be drawn from them… Because animated cinema is not just an enjoyable pastime but also a fantastic field of research and formal experimentation: traditional animation, 2D, 3D, black and white graphic universes, watercolor, animated painting, cut-out paper, puppets…
Joseph’s Snails by Sophie Roze
(France / 2009 / 12’)
Joseph is an introverted and shy little boy who collects snails. One day, he gets swallowed by his navel and discovers a worrying world, that of the navel-gazers: who, by only communicating with their navels, coil around themselves and transform into snails.
The Bridge by Vincent Bierrewaerts
(France-Belgium / 2007 / 13’)
At the top of a mountain seemingly cut off from the rest of the world, a little boy spends his days helping his father tend to the animals and fields. Life flows peacefully until the day the little boy sees a city at the bottom of the mountain. As the years go by, this city attracts the young boy more and more.
Fossil Memory by Anne-Laure Totaro and Arnaud Demuynck
(France-Belgium / 2009 / 10’)
A little boy visits his sick grandfather. While playing with the doctor’s stethoscope, he hears unknown sounds. These noises transport him on a journey to the heart of the history of coal from its creation more than three hundred million years ago until the more recent history of his grandfather, a former miner.
Gum Story by Éric Blésin
(Belgium-France / 2006 / 14’)
Gaspard is a timid and clumsy schoolboy. He dreams of getting closer to Léontine, his classmate whom he is in love with. One day after school, Léontine is abducted before his eyes. He decides to save her…
Under a Blue Corner of Sky by Arnaud Demuynck and Cécilia Marreiros Marum
(Belgium-France / 2009 / 14’)
In a blue kingdom, everything is blue… and everyone sings. The story of this blue princess unfolds to South American rhythms, who, even if everything smiles upon her, has the blues. This short film is presented in karaoke form…
Middle School / High School
Critique Workshop
Friday April 15, 2011 – At the MAMAC Auditorium at 9:30 a.m.
Program duration: 1h30
A selection proposed by Mistral College (West Nice), based on recent hybrid and rare European cinematographies. The stated ambition is to offer students that morning an active participation. The objective is a didactic approach, a pedagogy by project, around the implementation by the students of a program that will be screened in the theater. During several Programming Workshop sessions, some of which are attended by a representative of the Héliotrope association, the students watch, comment, and analyze about thirty short films. They form a complete program presented in the form of a Critique Workshop.
This approach, aimed at fifth-grade cinema option students, seeks to understand film analysis, develop a critical discourse towards a cinematographic work, refine and assert their choices, and initiate genuine reflection to lead to a participatory school session. This session will be supervised by a representative of The Short Film Agency and the student selectors, who will justify their choices, relay opinions, recommend, create the chemistry between the work and the audience in front of a panel of middle schoolers from the entire academy.
The Substitute by Andrea Jublin
(Italy / 2006 / Fiction / 15’)
Cast: Arianna Dal Buono, Andrea Jublin, Valentino Campitelli, Lorenzo De Cicco
Why does the substitute behave like this instead of teaching? Is he completely crazy? A story of nostalgia dedicated to those with behavioral problems.
LITTLE DRAGON by Bruno Collet
(France / 2009 / Animation / 8’17)
Thirty-five years after his disappearance, Bruce Lee’s soul is reincarnated in the body of a small doll bearing his likeness. With assurance, the rubber toy sets out to discover the world out of scale that surrounds him.
Videogioco (Loop Experiment) by Donato Sansone
(Italy / 2009 / Animation / No dialogue / 1’30)
A grotesque, funny, and trashy event is abruptly cut short.
ICHTYS by Marek Skrobecki
(Poland / 2005 / Animation / 15’)
A man, in the prime of life, enters a restaurant. He is the only customer and is welcomed by a server with the face of an angel, who takes his order and leaves. The client waits for his return. Time passes. When the young server appears with the dish, his client is dead.
TANGO by Zbigniew Rybczynski
(Poland / 1980 / Animation / 8’)
A metaphor of human destiny, showing men’s activities, stereotypical and endlessly repeated, slightly offbeat, and leaving invisible traces… A crossing of individual stories and the passing of time.
FALLEN ART (Sztuka spadania) by Tomasz Baginski
(Poland / 2004 / Animation / 16’)
Atoll, an abandoned military base, somewhere in the Pacific. The army gets rid of soldiers who have lost their minds and exemplary officers by sending them there…
GEBOREN EN BETOGEN (Born and Raised) by Eelko Ferwerda
(Netherlands / 2009 / Fiction / 3’)
Bo and Elsa are about to have a baby and, at the moment their child is born, Bo writes a piece of music.
The Bridge by Vincent Bierrewaerts
(France-Belgium / 2007 / 13’)
At the top of a mountain seemingly cut off from the rest of the world, a little boy spends his days helping his father tend to the animals and fields. Life flows peacefully until the day the little boy sees a city at the bottom of the mountain.
As the years go by, this city attracts the young boy more and more.
FARD by David Alapont and Luis Briceno
(France / 2009 / Animation / 12’55)
In the near future, the world seems to function efficiently and controlled…
