Cinema on speed.

Chronic revised? So sometimes in the cinema seat eingepennt? For all movie fans, where the current 100-minute-long works: This is the perfect festival. In the Oberhausen Short Film Festival demonstrate the most creative directors in the world, how to quickly come to the point.

 

Are long-feature films in the YouTube age is still appropriate? If even comic adaptations of two and a half hours running time, as recently unexpectedly unsuccessful Zack Snyder "Watchmen" epic, then something is wrong in any case. In the cinema is often nothing less than 100 minutes, and one wonders sometimes why he must, if one half of it anyway before boredom verschläft louder.

In the 55th International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen you can now re-convince them that things can be different, shorter, above all, and certainly not worse. Not only in recent years, the festival in the Ruhr region is one of the largest and most important short film forums in the world, and each year is here again to prove that it is just as serious art and entertainment form is as in the mainstream cinema Lang that you get to see anywhere.

In five competitions (International, Germany, NRW, youth films and music videos) are available in Oberhausen Lichtburg 134 films from 36 countries to see - not just talented young directors, for a film no longer interested in financing. Even accomplished artists are represented, such as Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( "Tropical Malady") from Thailand and the Chinese Jia Zhang-Ke, which stands for "Still Life" in 2006 the Golden Lion in Venice won. Has attracted perhaps the two of this topic "Unreal Asia", according to organizers of the "post-colonial heritage of Southeast Asia" is trying to set apart, which of course is everything and nothing can be read, but it sounds very nice.

Interesting could be the first time in the program represented "Open Screening", where directors, for the five contests were rejected (it was above 5700 entries), but still able to present their works - if they are willing to personally present their works and time logged on. 30 films will be shown and for each director who does not appear, there is now a post Rücker ready.

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A not so happy signal may be that international competition for the five films have been selected, the 30 minutes are what the term "short" to his limits. Who really has something to tell, it can do even faster. Is only recently - on YouTube of course - a one-minute version of Quentin Tarantino
"Kill Bill" films emerged, made by a few British film students.

Four hours is reduced to one minute. And everything was there.

55. International
Short Film Festival. Oberhausen. 30.4.-5.5.