{"id":9165,"date":"2014-07-06T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2017-05-03T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T19:19:08","slug":"venezia-70-future-reloaded-2013-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9165","title":{"rendered":"Venezia 70 Future Reloaded (2013), part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Venice Film Festival posted 70-ish short films online to commemorate their 70th anniversary. I watched them gradually over the past year. Already rounded up my favorites<\/a> and least favorites<\/a> – this is the rest.<\/p>\n

Krzysztof Zanussi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kids haul a film can containing Zanussi’s Venice prize-winning A Year of the Quiet Sun<\/em> from a trash can.<\/p>\n

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Sono Sion<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Cinema’s Future is My Future” title cards. An excited man films things in a neon room. A crowd chants “seventy!”<\/p>\n

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Antonio Capuano<\/strong><\/p>\n

Green-haired teen zombies carry video cubes on subway station escalators.<\/p>\n

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Tariq Teguia<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Still, tomorrow’s cinema will be saying: someone is here.”
\nHe has a Film Socialisme<\/a><\/em> poster. Show-off.<\/p>\n

James Franco<\/strong> – The Future of Cinema<\/em><\/p>\n

FF Coppola says he hopes filmmaking professionalism will be destroyed and regular people will be able to make them. Then some vandals trash a house and it looks like we’re watching the framing story of V\/H\/S<\/a><\/em>. Then all goes berzerk, and Franco appears, laughing amidst the chaos.<\/p>\n

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Pablo Larra\u00c3\u00adn<\/strong><\/p>\n

Camera perched atop one of those sail-surfboards looking down, piano playing a riff on “My Blue Heaven”.<\/p>\n

Nicol\u00e1s Pereda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Single shot of couple in bed playing on their phones, unseriously discussing getting married.<\/p>\n

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Wang Bing<\/strong><\/p>\n

A guy works the land, comes home to his horrible, fly-infested cave.<\/p>\n

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Kim Ki-duk<\/strong> – My Mother<\/em><\/p>\n

Kim films his own mother going to the store (slowly and painfully), buying cabbage and prepping dinner for his visit.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Edgar Reitz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Franz Kafka is moved by a film, walks outside into the present-day world of everpresent video screens and advertising. Searching for the source of his quote (“Went to the movies. Wept.”) led to an interesting-looking book called Kafka Goes to the Movies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Pablo Trapero<\/strong> – Cinema Is All Around<\/em><\/p>\n

iPhone videos of tourists taking photos at a waterfall while Doris Day sings Que Sera Sera.<\/p>\n

Jia Zhang-ke<\/strong><\/p>\n

People watch old movies on new screens.
\nUnusually commercial-looking style for Jia.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Jo\u00e3o Pedro Rodrigues<\/strong> – Allegoria Della Prudenza<\/em><\/p>\n

Grave sites (there are multiple) for Kenji Mizoguchi in the whispering wind. Cameo appearance by the grave of Portuguese director Paulo Rocha.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Peter Ho-Sun Chan<\/strong> – The Future Was In Their Eyes<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo montage of the eyes of many dead filmmakers.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Isabel Coixet<\/strong><\/p>\n

A square little film sketch with bouncy music.<\/p>\n

Haile Gerima<\/strong><\/p>\n

He’s in an edit suite reviewing Harvest: 3000 Years<\/em>. “I am incarcerated in the historical circumstances of Africa. Our cinema is a hostaged cinema.”<\/p>\n

Atom Egoyan<\/strong> – Butterfly<\/em><\/p>\n

He lets us see video of an Anton Corbijn gallery exhibit before deleting it from his phone. “Frankly I can’t be bothered to store more useless memories that I’ll never look at again, so I have to make some choices of what to lose.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Hong Sang-soo<\/strong> – 50:50<\/em><\/p>\n

Guy smokes with a stranger, tells her that his wife, sitting on a nearby bench, is terribly ill.<\/p>\n

Celina Murga<\/strong><\/p>\n

Theater full of kids watch a movie.<\/p>\n

Hala Alabdalla<\/strong><\/p>\n

Driving through Syria shooting through a window with a beard-n-sunglasses silhouette stuck on. Then: close-ups of eyeballs.<\/p>\n

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Pietro Marcello<\/strong><\/p>\n

Silent stock footage and clips of film equipment at work, then a Guy Debord quote.<\/p>\n

Jan Cvitkovic<\/strong> – I Was a Child<\/em><\/p>\n

Nice moving camera while narrator tells of when she first realized that everything is god.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Jazm\u00c3\u00adn L\u00f3pez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Camera follows a trail of discarded objects to two identically-dressed girls making out.<\/p>\n

Amir Naderi<\/strong> – Don’t Give Up<\/em><\/p>\n

Aged film of dust storm on a dead sea cut with some present-day film storage room.<\/p>\n

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Alexey German Jr.<\/strong> – 5000 Days Ahead<\/em><\/p>\n

Single travelling shot, people on a beach discussing movies of the future, personal experiences using neural transmitters, “like dreams with subtitles.”<\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet Jacquot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Single take of a girl looking into camera.<\/p>\n

John Akomfrah<\/strong><\/p>\n

B\/W travel footage rapidly edited, closing with titles about the Boston Marathon bombing.<\/p>\n

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Shekhar Kapur<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bunch of short fragments using the white balance and focus in nonstandard ways.<\/p>\n

Davide Ferrario<\/strong> – Lighthouse<\/em><\/p>\n

Open-air cinema is playing Buster Keaton, shown with nice helicopter(?) shot.<\/p>\n

Ermanno Olmi<\/strong> – La Moviola<\/em><\/p>\n

So that’s what a moviola looks like. Hands and a sort of stop-motion\/time-lapse ghost set it up and start it rolling.<\/p>\n

Giuseppe Piccioni<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re at a party, dude goes to get a drink for the girl in center of shot, and she slowly glides with the camera into the other room, audio from a climactic scene from Double Indemnity<\/a><\/em> in her head, then back again.<\/p>\n

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Brillante Mendoza<\/strong> – The Camera<\/em><\/p>\n

A movie is being filmed, shots of people across town already enjoying it on TV, but back on set someone has run off with the camera.<\/p>\n

Monte Hellman<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slate, couple at a cafe, he pays and leaves while she silently cries, the traffic noise dialing down, slow pull in, then “cut”.<\/p>\n

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Teresa Villaverde<\/strong> – Amapola<\/em><\/p>\n

Poem recital like a horror-movie bible reading, “jackals that the jackals would despise,” blurry TV sets with close-ups of faces upon them.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Guido Lombardi<\/strong> – Sensa Fine<\/em><\/p>\n

Last shot of a film, the lead actors kiss, then won’t stop kissing.<\/p>\n

Shirin Neshat<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scenes from October<\/a><\/em> and Potemkin<\/a><\/em> played with a stop-motion-looking low frame-rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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