NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS
Nine short films will be presented with the twenty-five feature films and several special events in the 42nd New York Film Festival, which runs from October 1 to 17, 2004. Three of the nine shorts are from the United States and the other entries are from Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Highway 403, Mile 39 (USA, 2004, 8 minutes) Mitch McCabe’s fractured, highly personal account of an accident, in which memory competes with fear in trying to establish what really happened. Shows before Triple Agent.
The Patio (El Patio) (Switzerland/Argentina, 2003, 15 minutes) In Milagros Mumenthaler’s languid vignette, two sisters bide their time waiting for their mother to call from abroad. Shows before In the Battlefields.
Frozen River (USA, 2004, 15 minutes) One Christmas eve, the maternal instincts of two women who smuggle immigrants across the Canadian border are tested. Directed by Courtney Hunt. Shows before Or (My Treasure).
Boy (New Zealand, 2004, 15 minutes) A hit-and-run accident sets in motion Welby Ings’s haunting, visually inventive tale about coming of age and into sexuality. Shows before Tarnation.
Little Apocrypha No. 2 (Kis Apokrif 2) (Hungary, 2004, 22 minutes)
A moody, dream-like work by Kornel Mundruczo, in which the whole world seems to open up on the banks of a river. Shows before Woman is the Future of Man.
Flowers for Diana (France, 2003, 8 minutes) In Reynald Bertrand’s unsettling portrait of willful abjection, a documentary crew trails a belligerent, freeloading dropout on her way to the bottom. But who will get the last laugh? Shows before The Holy Girl.
Supermarket (USA, 2003, 12 minutes) In show biz you’re one flop away from minimum wage, so count your blessings and smile: you still have your fan base. Directed by Illeanna Douglas. Shows before Rolling Family.
Nits (UK, 2004, 11 minutes) In Harry Wootliff’s film, seven-year-old James wants to tell his mum something, but when his parents come back from the hospital, he learns how hard it is to say certain things. With Keane.
Never Even (Nie Solo Sein) (Germany, 2003, 10 minutes) Done than said easier is drink to something getting, backwards going world a in up wake you when: end the was beginning the in. Schomburg Jan by directed. With Sideways.
