Slamdance Shorts and Episodes: CHASERS, LES BETES,JOEY EARNS REWARDS..., POSSUM, PROJECT DAD, CLEANSE, ONE REHEARSES..., VICTORIAN LADIES, AUDIO DESCRIPTION, 400 CASSETTES

 

400 CASSETTES
The relationship between two young women which explores the nature of reality and of nthe notion of the past being part of the present via the fact that the light we see was created eight and a half minutes ag and the recorded things we see and listen to are part of the past. This is a film to see and experience more than read about because it would take me longer to explain it than for you to see it. 

AUDIO DESCRIPTION
A man hears an audio descrition of his life...and confronts the man doing audio decription. Off kilter comedy about the voices we hear in our heads. I've seen other similar films, but this one pulls it off the best because they keep it closer to real.

VICTORIAN LADIES
Nine episodes of the first season are wickedly fast black out sketches about victorian ladies being bad done with devilish sense of humor. I did not want to see it and was delighted when I did.

ONE REHERSES THE OTHER DOESN'T
An experimental look at the life of Marjorie Annapavpav that seems normal and yet drifts off in unexpected and strange ways. Some of it works and some of it doesn't oweing to the fact that like the surrealist at the center the film often is going for effect rather than clarity.

 CLEANSE
Incredibly brief and deeply distubing short about an obsession with washing hands

PROJECT DAD
The relationship between Camilla and her father, a pick up expert who is exploring alternate spiritual viewpoints.  This is an intriguing look at a father daughter dynamic that kind of runs out of steam somewhere in the middle

POSSUM
This is the story of a man who beats possum to death and then brings the corpse back to his group of friends.  This is an off kilter attempt at something that didn't seem to really work as it tries to become about something.

JOEY EARNS REWARDS USING THE MOBILE APP AND MEGH AND CLEV DISCUSS THEIR FUTURE
A long winded title for a continuous take film that follows a single car as it goes through a McDonalds drive thru and gets food with the help of an expert with the App. You are either going to love this or not.  Personally it didn't work for me.

LES BETES
A pandemic lockdown project in the style of animator Ladislas Starevich, that recreates some sequences from some of his films, LES BETES is a great little animated treat that will delight anyone who loves animation or gothic sort of images. One of the best shorts at Slamdance

CHASERS
Single take epsisode of a young woman going to a party. It's a film that looks  great and has a greut cast but  which is distracting in its use of a single camera take. I hope anything that follows finds a way to blend it better or abandon it al together.