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ANIMATED SHORT FICTION - NARRATED BY NICK CAVE
In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious dark figure emerges, kidnapping the town’s singers for his twisted musical plans, the poet must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune that threatens to destroy the city.
PLAYING WITH Of Montreal: Family Noveau
ANIMATED SHORT FICTION
А story about a cute goat on a high mountain top and the crown of creation - a human, struggling at the foot of the mountain. The conflict between the goat and the human takes suprising turns and ends with an accidental homicide.
PLAYING WITH The Polkaholics
SHORT FICTION
Steph, a young mother, lives in precarious conditions with JB, her abusive boyfriend. How will she get out of this nightmare drifting her towards violence?
PLAYING WITH Prelude to Sleep: Jean-Jacques Perry & Electronic Music
SHORT FICTION
Drowned out by the music of strangers, a lonely janitor longs for connection.
PLAYING WITH Perfect Happiness
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SHORT FICTION
Shot in the silent movie style, no dialogues, with written texts and music, Lost faces is a story of a person that during a dream has visions of his previous and future lives.
PLAYING WITH The Mountain Music Project
SHORT FICTION
Two sisters take their younger, terminally ill, sister to die peacefully at a mysterious lake…
PLAYING WITH Vinyl: Tales from the Vienna Underground
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SHORT FICTION
Old friends, out for a Saturday stroll, are accosted by memories of their past from an unlikely source.
Q&A with director Dylan Reibling
PLAYING WITH Playing for Change: Peace Through Music
ANIMATED SHORT FICTION
Something has gone hideously wrong at the annual fancy dress ball. Trapped onboard a container ship with no where to run, all the band can do is keep playing. 'Burn The Whole Place Down' is trilogy of music promos with a singular narrative thread...and zombies!
PLAYING WITH Of Montreal: Familt Noveau
SHORT FICTION
A comedic short film retelling the story of Don Quixote in the modern day world of folk music. Featureing Jon Langford.
Q&A with director Michael Smith and Jon Langford
PLAYING WITH Jon Langford live performance
SHORT FICTION
A short film about a secret service agent with a little secret of his own.
hint- ballet shoes.
PLAYING WITH Sissyboy
SHORT FICTION
A sudden relocation, an empty house, a piano. An old metronome marks the time of a painful relation between a man and his daughter.
PLAYING WITH Tom Zé: Astronauta Libertado
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
captures the true story of a native Japanese and now San Francisco resident, Toshio Hirano, whose life is transformed by the music of country musician Jimmie Rodgers.
PLAYING WITH In Search of the Messiah
EXPERIMENTAL SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Alan Vega unveils his universe through the epilepsy of a video not inept. Audio Visual Alan Vega transforms the ritual of the interview in sensory experience.
PLAYING WITH: Complaints Choir
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
This documentary examines the traditional Afro-Bolivian Saya music and the recent movement that uses this music to pursue their social and political needs.
DIRECTOR MAYA JENSEN IN PERSON!
PLAYING WITH Teshumara; Guitars of the Tuareg Rebellion
SHORT DOCUMENTARY
Four youngsters from Amsterdam show us how they follow their dream with passion, discipline and lots of fun.
PLAYING WITH El Sistema
EXPERIMENTAL SHORT
Set to songs by Tom Waits and Richard Hell, among others, pairs of people meet and get together, or fail to, in beautiful, grainy 16mm film.
DIRECTOR SHANTI MASUD IN PERSON!
Rapping in Tehran is secret and semi-legal, and many of the performers featured in this short film have been arrested for speaking their minds in rhyme.
President Sarkozy called them racaille—scum—but the underground rappers that populate this short film took his insult and made it their own—Rapaille, which gives the film its name.
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