Iyeza, Sundance Film Festival 2013 (New Frontier Short Films) Film Still 1. Photo by Kudzanai Chiurai. NEW FRONTIER SHORT FILMS An electrifying celebration of innovation in filmmaking, these New Frontier shorts energize the mind through bold aesthetics and thought-provoking content. The Capsule / Greece (Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Screenwriters: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Aleksandra Waliszewska) — Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood – infinitely. Century / U.S.A. (Director: Kevin Jerome Everson) — Filmed in Charlottesville, Virginia, and starring a General Motors automobile – the titular brown Buick Century – meeting its fate.
2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM PROGRAM U.S. NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS: PART ONE INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS: PART ONE DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS: PART ONE ANIMATED SHORT FILMS: PART ONE NEW FRONTIER SHORT FILMS: PART ONE
Iyeza, Sundance Film Festival 2013 (New Frontier Short Films) Film Still 2. Photo by Kudzanai Chiurai. Iyeza / South Africa (Director and screenwriter: Kudzanai Chiurai) — An allegory of the Last Supper depicting the establishment of a new nation-state, Kudzanai Chiurai's Iyeza explores the African condition by juxtaposing the past and the present of a continent in the grip of violent civil wars.
Until The Quiet Comes directed by Kahlil Joseph, Sundance Film Festival 2013 (New Frontier Short Films) Solomon Gibbs. Photo by Matthew J Lloyd. Until the Quiet Comes / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Kahlil Joseph) — Shot in the Nickerson Gardens housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles, this film deals with themes of violence, camaraderie and spirituality through the lens of magical realism.
2013 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM PROGRAM U.S. NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS: PART ONE INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS: PART ONE DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS: PART ONE ANIMATED SHORT FILMS: PART ONE NEW FRONTIER SHORT FILMS: PART ONE
Datamosh, Sundance Film Festival 2013 (New Frontier Short Films) Director Yung Jake. Photo by Ada Rajkovic. Datamosh / U.S.A. (Director: Yung Jake) — A contemporary rap video that explores the glitchy video art trend "datamoshing". All geeked up, Yung Jake glitches out your computer and celebrates nerdiness and getting money.
Primate Cinema: Apes As Family, (New Frontier Short Films) Denise Pearlman. Photo by Matt Chaney. Primate Cinema: Apes As Family / Scotland, U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Rachel Mayeri) — Chimpanzees, our closest relatives, like to watch television. What would a film made expressly for chimps look like? Created with a primatologist and actors in chimp suits, a primate drama is presented to chimpanzees at the Edinburgh Zoo. Reindeer / United Kingdom (Director: Eva Weber) — A lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lapland wilderness. Sirocco / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Hisham Bizri) — A detective is sent to the desert to investigate a murder only to find out he’s been investigating his own death.