
FILMS
Browse all of the short films included in LSFF 2021's digital edition.
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Baba Oyejide, Tristram Anyiam
Inspired by Chazz Palminteri’s screen play A Bronx Tale and lines from William Shakespeare’s Richard II, this is the story of a young black male, Bobby Kingsley, torn between the easily fascinating gangster lifestyle and his reformed, incarcerated older brother’s advice.
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INTERMISSION YOUTH: Shakespeare On Smartphone
A DEMONSTRATION
Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva
A poetic exploration of how taxonomies of monsters in early European science organised our ideas of the natural world. The film picks up on these themes by tracing the boundaries of sight and the metamorphosis of form.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: Heaven Knows What
A HORSE HAS MORE BLOOD THAN A HUMAN
Abolfazl Talooni
An older couple leave Tehran and return to their idyllic home town on the Turkish border, but their dreams of quiet retirement are shattered by the realisation that their town has become a smuggling gateway into Europe and everyone they know is involved.
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DOCUMENTARY: System Failure
A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES
Lynne Sachs
In 1998, filmmaker Barbara Hammer had a one month artist residency in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with no running water or electricity. While there, she shot 16mm film with her Beaulieu camera, recorded sounds with her cassette recorder and kept a journal.
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NEW SHORTS: Screen On Screen
A WILDERNESS OF LOST CONNECTIONS
Dana Venezia
‘Where is the light coming from?’ What rhetorical structures do people set up to see the light? Three distinct belief systems are juxtapositioned to form an ambiguous understanding of its macro protagonist, America, raising questions of legitimacy, conspiracy, security and truth.
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DOCUMENTARY: Nobody Wants A Lonely Heart