#4 Short & Sweet


(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

SHORT & SWEET invites you to a glittering movie night. Nineteen works ponder and hallucinate about unique opportunities, missed chances and the perception of things. With adventurous protagonists, both analog and digital. (Jessica Manstetten)

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That's the toilet, right? And what is to be done here? This toilet is already fully designed. What else am I supposed to do here? Be a fine design or what?

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  • Duration: 4 Min.
  • Director: Mariola Brillowska

How Can I Capture

Good morning, this is my new accommodation! Directly opposite is a steep mountain. I can't get up there, but I stare at it and ask myself: does it see me too?

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  • Duration: 3 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
    • Director: Dagie Brundert

    Guests of Honor

    A dinner is laid on the table. Arriving guests are creatures that are typically found on the plate.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Paula Lehtonen

    Evening Escapades

    An adventurous rabbit undertakes an enchanted evening escapade through a mysterious forest trail.

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    • Duration: 4 Min.
  • Premiere: Europe Premiere
    • Director: Chantal Rousseau, Darcy Tara McDiarmid

    Schleim des Nichtwissens

    Chimeric protagonists performing useless, pointless, inscrutable sisyphean tasks.

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    • Duration: 6 Min.
    • Director: Marc Richter

    Three Secret Clues of Longing

    Simple demands of love, which are usually hidden behind closed doors of fear and vulnerability, are playfully celebrated here as a riddle of shapes and gestures found among tons of archival material.

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    • Duration: 4 Min.
    • Director: Zhenia Kazankina

    Late Summer 91

    Chronicle of a birthday party in September 1991. Everything was going well until there was a shortage of salt.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Olaf Held

    Things We Swallow

    A queer dance party, a penis joke, a body that can swallow for all sorts of reasons, for pleasure and for composure. What happens when staring back?

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    • Duration: 4 Min.
  • Premiere: Europe Premiere
    • Director: Carleen Maur

    Silent Panorama

    In the middle of nature, at the base of a cliff, two campers, intrigued by outside noises, cross the deserted landscape, lamp in hand.

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    • Duration: 5 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Nicolas Piret

    Das Parlament der Dinge

    Affairs / often have two sides / You can turn around / War suddenly means peace / Leonid grenades / My sofa has a problem with me / The parliament of things / meets at 5 past 12.

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    • Duration: 4 Min.
    • Director: Juno Melián Meinecke

    She Plays with Dolls

    Double doll. Doll. Snippet. Doll. Doll. Nobody dolls with her.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
    • Director: Karin Fisslthaler

    Last Year in Wisborg

    The undead remember before and after their death. Memories flicker like fractured collages in LAST YEAR IN WISBORG —Nosferatu haunts the sky, a painting and his own hand.

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    • Duration: 4 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
    • Director: Stuart Pound

    Friedl

    Friedl rolls a cigarette, lights it, takes a drag and exhales the smoke. The film meters are no longer sufficient to look into the camera. Instead, the soundtrack continues for a thought.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Christiana Perschon

    Surface Séance

    We leave marks, wanted or not. Traces of human bodies silently inscribe themselves on every surface we touch.

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    • Duration: 5 Min.
    • Director: Michael Heindl

    Google Your New Name

    She dances in digital space and sinks into the mercury, while the private is processed and multiplied.

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    • Duration: 3 Min.
    • Director: Paula Reissig, Theresa Stroetges

    Giocattoli per adulti (Toys for Adults)

    Amid playful interactions, Balinese monkeys reveal an unusual ritual in their engagement with stones: both males and females discover a means of self-satisfaction.

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    • Duration: 8 Min.
    • Director: Mea Gulp