1 – 8 JUNE 2013
LISFE.NL 5TH ED.
FESTIVAL WEEK & OFFICIAL COMPETITION PROGRAMME
WELCOME TO LISFE 2013 Brace yourselves for the 5th edition of the Leiden International Short Film Experience (LISFE)! LISFE 2013 is on! This year we are proud to present a wider programme, including not only a large variety of short films, but also a series of special events all dedicated to the blending of film with other forms of art and culture. On top of the official competition day on Saturday 8 June, LISFE will be active in Leiden all week, starting from Saturday 1 June, with live cineconcerts, workshops, special evenings on architecture and innovation and more! All this has been made possible by LISFE’s collaboration with a number of Leiden-based organisations such as MIJN FOTOWERKPLAATS, RAP, OPEN Makers aan de Markt, the Kaasmarkt artists, Raamsteeg 2, Galerie de Pieter and internationally renowned organisations such as AFFR and GE FOCUS FORWARD films. Our goal is to mix as many different audiences as possible! Expats and locals, Dutch and international students, music and cinema lovers, contemporary art enthusiasts and people passionate about LI(S)FE in general. Everyone is welcome to watch, listen and feel the LISFE experience! –2–
LISFE – EXPERIENCE SHORT FILMS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD! LISFE is an annual festival held in the city of Leiden dedicated to the most original and creative form of filmmaking: short films! Since it first started in 2009, LISFE has presented more than 400 shorts from over 50 different countries to a crowd of more than 1000 film enthusiasts. The festival is organised by a very enthusiastic and hard-working team of volunteers that changes and expands every year. It is a mixed group of international people coming from different countries, including The Netherlands, who dedicate their time to creating LISFE aside their jobs or their studies. Every year a large number of short films is produced, yet only a few manage to make it to the big screen and to be enjoyed by a wider audience. LISFE is here to change all this! Short films are an often unappreciated form of filmmaking, yet creating a beautiful short is hardly as simple as it seems. With less screen time and, often, a smaller budget, directors must give their best to entertain their audience... a perfect recipe for quality! Over the past four years LISFE has offered a wide range of films, from works of fiction to documentaries and animated films, directed by professional and cinema/ media school student filmmakers alike. This has allowed our audience to discover internationally acclaimed works as well as short films by promising newcomers. The festival core is the official competition where the best professional and student films are awarded with special prizes given by a professional Jury and by the audience. So far we have given 15 awards to encourage and promote a new generation of filmmakers and we are looking forward to giving out many more in the future! –3–
FILM AND ART Location
Galerie De Pieter
OPEN Makers aan de markt
Date & time 1 June – 7 June • Saturdays + Sundays: 13:00 – 17:30
Thursday & Friday 6 + 7 June: 17:30 – 19:30
Admittance Free For its 5th edition, LISFE gives a rocket boost to its experimental film programming using “Film and Art” as a launch pad. “Film and Art” is an exhibition curated by artist Sonja van Kerkhoff which presents the works of 20 Netherlands-based artists and films from over 40 LISFE international filmmakers. The exhibition consists of installations, paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos, live theatre and performances often inspired by the LISFE films that address the question: “How can art function as a form of film, in terms of narrative or concept?”. During the exhibition opening on the 31st of May, the theatre company Fields of Wonder will make a special appearance.
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ARCHITECTURE SPECIAL Location
RAP
Date & time Mon 3 June • 20:00 – 22:30 Admittance Free Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) is a biannual film festival which screens feature-length films, shorts, animations and documentaries about architecture, urban development and city culture. This year, under the wing of AFFR, LISFE dedicates a special night to these topics. Taking place at RAP, with the informal and open-minded format AFFR is known for, this event aims at bringing us all closer to architecture and its language, which is part of our daily lives, but often not consciously experienced. Wies Sanders, programmer of AFFR, will give an introduction, followed by the projection of a selection of short films from AFFR’s collection and a Q&A session. –5–
WORKSHOP CREATE YOUR SHORT PHOTO–FILM Location
MIJN FOTOWERKPLAATS
Date & time Tue 4 & Wed 5 June • 19:30 – 22:00 Admittance Free (max. 12 people) Take a peek behind the film screen! Over the course of two evenings, professional photographers at Mijnfotowerkplaats Marike Benschop and Jacqueline du Prie give you the key to photography-based filmmaking and the ingredients to create your own short film. Then on the 8th of June you can bring your friends and family to attend the première of your photo-based short film! –6–
CINECONCERTS Location
Vrijplaats
Date & time Wed 5 June • 20:00 – 23:00 Admittance ¤5,Cross-fertilization between film and music is not a new phenomenon. But what if you ask a musician to reinterpret a film by adding his personal composed or improvised soundtrack to it? Two artists have accepted our challenge: different interpretations, different sounds that will lead us in an alternative dimension of cinema. The results are surprising, and are performed live during LISFE at the Vrijplaats! Port Of Call, rising Dutch singer-songwriter performs an original work inspired by a LISFE short film. Carlos Roos, Europe-based Venezuelan multi-disciplinary artist and musician, offers a live soundtrack to the ground-breaking film “Man with a Movie Camera’ (Russia, 1929).
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INNOVATION IN SHORT Location
Raamsteeg 2
Date & time Thu 6 June • 20:00 – 23:00 Admittance Free Short films are very often a unique place for innovation in today’s cinema. Therefore it feels natural to dedicate a whole evening to the theme of innovation at large. What is the place for innovation and how can we enable innovation in scientific research, art and humanities? Is there a place for new ideas and their implementation in our lives and in Leiden? These are the questions to be addressed by you and our invited panel of Leiden-based innovators during an evening of screenings, talks and debates. This special event takes place in the premises of a new and innovative location in Leiden, Raamsteeg 2 and is the fruit of a collaboration between LISFE and GE FOCUS FORWARD. GE FOCUS FORWARD has for motto: short films, big ideas. Come and enjoy a selection of three-minute stories about innovative people who are reshaping the world through action or invention.
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LISVHSFE Location
OPEN Makers aan de markt
Date & time Fri 7 June • 20:00 – 22:30 Admittance Free Niek Hilkmann and Sandra Gnjatovic are two artists and mad lovers. Combining their different talents they create sublime works that overthrow postmodern digital boredom. In May, Sandra and Niek will be at OPEN Makers to create an analogue VHS-studio open to the visitors. Using two-dimensional backdrops and homemade props they aim at creating two short movies to premiere at LISFE during a special VHS event called LISVHSFE (Leiden International Short VHS Film Event). During this event, curated by Niek and Sandra, the role of VHS as a means of defiance and evoker of optimism is not only discussed, but also shown, through contemporary short VHS movies.
FOR KIDS! Location
MIJN FOTOWERKPLAATS
Date & time Sat 8 June • 10:30 – 13:00 Admittance Free For the youngest visitors, LISFE has prepared a special cinematic playground: an extraordinary selection of short animations from all over the world. All children between the ages of 7 to 12 are welcome to participate and enjoy the films! –9–
OFFICIAL COMPETITION LISFE 2013 Location
Kaasmarktschool
Date & time Sat 8 June • 12:00 – 01:00 Admittance ¤9,The official selection does not draw a line between genres, it contains the most daring, creative, original and entertaining fiction, documentary, experimental and animated short films produced in the years 2011 to 2013. Nor does it limit itself geographically: we always try to bring to our audience the broadest selection of films coming from all over the world. Just as for its previous editions, LISFE 2013 will offer once again the unmissable opportunity to meet at once the variety and wealth of cultures of today’s world. Through short films from over 40 different countries, LISFE offers unique perspectives, a key to understanding contemporary political issues and social concerns, as well as artistic interests and trends. We are also happy to announce that 2013 will see the arrival of a professional Jury for LISFE! Three pros of the world of cinema will select the best student and professional films from our main competition. But we still want our audience’s opinion! This year too you will be able to vote the film you liked best and help it win the Audience award! Come and experience short films like you have never done before! – 10 –
THE SESSIONS STUDENT This session is specifically dedicated to screening shorts made by film and media school students from all over the world: the directors and cinema makers of the future! INTERNATIONAL This is LISFE’s official selection of the best professional short films coming from a wide number of countries. DOCUMENTARY Works of fiction can take us far away, but so can a good documentary! A session dedicated especially to the art of documenting our world through film. ANIMATION For all the lovers of animated shorts, LISFE presents a special session devoted to the most interesting and diverse types of animation. NOT SO SHORT Between a short short film and a feature-length film there are the.. long shorts! In this session we offer a selection of the best 20+-minute-long “not-so-shorts”! FEAR OF THE DARK For the fans of comedy/gore films with monsters, aliens and zombies. You may get traumatized... but LISFE cannot be held responsible! AFTER MIDNIGHT From eerie creatures to experiments gone wrong, a selection of our best horror and thriller shorts! – 11 –
JURY PROFILES JAN WILLEM VAN DAM 1962 Dutch filmmaker, producer, co-founder of Filmstad and organizer of the PEK Filmfestival in The Hague. Among his films he counts Kakaja Zemlja (1992), The Spiritual Conquest of the World (2001), When light behaves differently towards time (2006) and Je vis dans le rêve de ma mere (2011). He is currently working on two new projects.
JULIE PÉRION 1981 Leiden-based French producer. She studied Film Production at the Film en Televisie Academie in Amsterdam and recently collaborated with Mardou Jacobs on the Paul Verhoeven project Steekspel as well as on a new TV Series called Queer Amsterdam. She also has her own Stichting P’tites Madeleines Productions, through which she is developing a music video and co-producing a French short fiction film (20’).
PETER VERSTRATEN 1967 Assistant Professor at Film and Literary Studies and chair of the MA Media Studies at Leiden University. His publications include books Film Narratology (2009) and Shooting Time: Cinematographers on Cinematography (2012), studies on ‘Cinema and postmodernism’ and ‘Key themes in film studies’ and several articles on films. He is currently working on a book about humour in Dutch cinema. – 12 –
THE KAASMARKT ARTISTS BEN VAN KEMPEN • www.benvankempen.nl Ben graduated in 1962 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Free Academy in The Hague. He is inspired by music but also by people, animals, nature and above all humour! He uses the most diverse types of materials for his works – etchings, monoprinting, collages, and drawings – because “Everything is usable!”. FENG Feng is mainly a sculptor who draws inspiration from poetry. One of his works involved the creation of sculptures with engraved lines taken from poems. He will be available to show his projects to the interested LISFE public. MARLIES VAN BOEKEL • www.marliesvanboekel.nl Photographer and painter Marlies van Boekel is interested in looking at reality in different ways, which is what she always tries to do with her photos and paintings. WILLEM VERMAASE• www.willemvermaase.nl Willem is a full-time photographer and part-time musician. Last year he took pictures of the LISFE audience and then screened the portraits on a loop. This year, together with Ludy Feyen he will perform a mix of mediaeval tunes, traditional dances and contemporary original songs. All during the breaks between the LISFE sessions, so that everyone can enjoy a nice musical interval! – 13 –
OFFICIAL COMPETITION SCHEDULE GYMZAAL
LOKAAL 1
STUDENT 1
DOCUMENTARY 1
STUDENT 2
NOT SO SHORT 1
STUDENT 3
ANIMATION
ATELIERS
12:00
14:00
KAASMARKT ARTISTS
16:00
MINI CONCERT
18:00
INTERNATIONAL 1
NOT SO SHORT 2
KAASMARKT ARTISTS MINI CONCERT
20:00
INTERNATIONAL 2
DOCUMENTARY 2
INTERNATIONAL 3
FEAR OF THE DARK
INTERNATIONAL 4
AFTER MIDNIGHT
21:50
23:40
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WEEK SCHEDULE EVENT
LOCATION
DATE
TIME
Film and art exhibition
Galerie De Pieter
Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 Thursday 6 - Friday 7 Saturday 8
13:00 – 17:30 17:30 – 19:30 13:00 – 17:t0
Architecture Special screening + debate
RAP
Monday 3
20:00 – 22:30
Create your short photo-film workshop
MIJNFOTOWERKPLAATS
Tuesday 4 Wednesday 5
19:30 – 22:00 19:30 – 22:00
Cineconcerts screening + concerts
Vrijplaats
Wednesday 5
20:00 – 23:00
Innovation in short screening + debate
Raamsteeg 2
Thursday 6
20:00 – 23:00
LISVHSFE screening + debate
OPEN Makers aan de markt
Friday 7
20:00 – 22:30
For Kids! screening
MIJN FOTOWERKPLAATS
Saturday 8
10:30 – 13:00
Official competition screening + exhibition
Kaasmarkt
Saturday 8
12:00 – 01:00
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COMPETITION FILM PROGRAMME STUDENT 1 Robbery • Georges Cassab • LBN • 2012 • Fiction Ham Story • Eliška Chytková • CZE • 2012 • Animation The Eternal Not • Joe Spray • GBR • 2012 • Fiction Eat • Moritz Krämer • DEU • 2012 • Experimental Nightfall • Niels Sabbe • BEL • 2012 • Fiction DYKWLI • Leni Huyghe • BEL • 2012 • Fiction Trouble on the Green • H. Galvez, Y. Hervo, S. Pavoine, P. Zenzius • FRA • 2012 • Animation STUDENT 2 Ketupa • Margarita Balaklav • ISR • 2012 • Fiction Three Hours, Darling • Roman Hagenbrock • DEU • 2012 • Fiction The Attic • Mohamed Shawky • EGY • 2011 • Fiction Domoj • Simona Feldman • DEU • 2013 • Fiction Distance • T. De Jong, T. Law, W. Maunoury, E. Metois, J. Vermersch • FRA • 2012 • Animation Well of Adem • Veysel Cihan Hızar • TUR • 2011 • Fiction What are you thinking? • Ruben Sainz • ESP • 2012 • Fiction STUDENT 3 Chlorine • Laura Plebani • ITA • 2012 • Fiction I am Sorry • Árpád Hermán • HUN • 2011 • Animation P E N G U I N S • Dimitris Zahos • GRC • 2012 • Fiction Black Fish • Sha Mo • CHN • 2012 • Fiction The Ballet • Louis Thomas • FRA • 2012 • Animation Stammering Love • Jan Czarlewski • CHE • 2012 • Fiction Chippendale • Kamila Safina • RUS • 2012 • Fiction
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INTERNATIONAL 1 Linear • Amir Admoni • BRA • 2012 • Animation Death of a Shadow • Tom Van Avermaet • BEL / FRA • 2012 • Fiction The Man Who Fed His Shadow • Mario Garefo • GRC • 2012 • Fiction The Event • Julia Pott • USA • 2012 • Animation Gypsy Funeral • Fernando Honesko • BRA • 2012 • Fiction Behind the Mirrors • Julio O. Ramos • PER • 2012 • Fiction The Noble Stud • Sofia Priftis & Linus Hartin • SWE • 2013 • Animation INTERNATIONAL 2 Voice Over • Martin Rosete • ESP • 2012 • Fiction Oh Willy... • E. De Swaef & M. James Roels • BEL / FRA / NLD / LUX • 2012 • Animation The Intruder • Filippo Meneghetti • ITA • 2012 • Fiction Eskiper • Pedro Collantes • ESP • 2012 • Fiction Vertige • Christophe Gautry and Mathieu Brisebras • FRA / BEL • 2012 • Animation Under the Sun • Arcadi Palerm • MEX • 2012 • Fiction At The Opera • Juan Pablo Zaramella • ARG • 2010 • Animation Portraits • Iván D. Gaona • COL • 2012 • Fiction INTERNATIONAL 3 The Journey • Hana Makki • UAE • 2012 • Fiction Sweetheart • Eva Riley • GBR • 2011 • Fiction Irish Folk Furniture • Tony Donoghue • IRL • 2012 • Documentary Calories • Antje Gleißberg • DEU • 2013 • Animation Dirty on the Outside • Leonardo Lafferte • ESP • 2013 • Fiction Edmond was a Donkey • Franck Dion • FRA / CAN • 2012 • Animation Bird of Flames • Chel White • USA • 2012 • Experimental Faces from Places: Japan Hojo Jutsu • Bastien Dubois • FRA • 2013 • Animation If You Want Your Mother Back • Xavier Douin • FRA • 2011 • Fiction INTERNATIONAL 4 Kiki of Montparnasse • Amelie Harrault • FRA • 2013 • Animation Catnip: Egress to Oblivion? • Jason Willis • USA • 2012 • Documentary God Only Watches • Miguel Diaz Rivera & Alejandro Villalba • PRI • 2011 • Fiction Gravity of Center • Thibaut Duverneix & Victor Quijada • CAN • 2011 • Experimental Like Rabbits (Sticky Ends, chap. 2) • Osman Cerfon • FRA • 2012 • Animation Karaoke! • Andrew Renzi • USA • 2013 • Fiction The Sexual Life of Dinosaurs • Delphine Hermans • BEL • 2012 • Animation Un Dimanche Matin • Damien Manivel • FRA • 2012 • Fiction
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COMPETITION FILM PROGRAMME DOCUMENTARY 1 Betsiamites • Denis Chouinard • CAN • 2011 • Documentary Broken Border • Keywan Karimi • IRN • 2012 • Documentary Mosquitoes Won’t Bite • Nusrat Howard-Moore • IDN • 2013 • Documentary EARTH • Victor Asliuk • BLR • 2012 • Documentary More Than Ice-Cream Wong Kwong • Riley Leung • HKG • 2012 • Documentary DOCUMENTARY 2 I Missed the Bus • Hande Zerkin • TUR • 2013 • Documentary Faces • Said Najmi • JOR • 2012 • Documentary To Hibernate • David Pantaleón • ESP • 2011 • Documentary Infant • Xavier Stentz • DEU • 2012 • Documentary We Lived Our Ordinary Lives • Daya Cahen • NLD • 2012 • Documentary The Little Team • Roger Gómez & Dani Resines • ESP • 2011 • Documentary NOT SO SHORT 1 Damascus, My First Kiss • Lina Alabed • SYR / LBN / QAT • 2012 • Documentary Dublin • David Aronowitsch • SWE • 2012 • Fiction The Visit of the Crab • Pelayo Lira Díaz • CHL • 2012 • Fiction NOT SO SHORT 2 No Bread • Macarena Monrós • CHL • 2012 • Fiction Shaitan • Ersin Cilesiz • DEU • 2012 • Fiction Home • Ruslan Magomadov • RUS • 2012 • Fiction Filmmakers • Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya • LBN • 2012 • Fiction ANIMATION Stewpot Rhapsody • C. Cambon De La Valette & more • FRA • 2012 • Animation Elegie • Julia Kaiser • NLD • 2012 • Animation Bear me • Kasia Wilk • DEU / POL • 2012 • Animation The Animation Tag Attack • Christen Bach & more • DNK / DEU • 2012 • Animation In the Beginning of Time... • Bozidar Trkulja • HRV • 2012 • Animation Father • Ivan Bogdanov & more • BGR / HRV / DEU • 2012 • Animation Yonalure: Moment to Moment • A. Nakata & Y. Sakitani • JPN • 2011 • Animation Müsterious Swamp • Chintis Lundgren • EST / DNK • 2013 • Animation Nightingales in December • Theodore Ushev • CAN • 2011 • Animation Marcel, King of Tervuren • Tom Schroeder • USA • 2012 • Animation Bird Shit • Caleb Wood • USA • 2013 • Animation Bendito Machine IV • Jossie Malis • ESP • 2012 • Animation Big House • Kristjan Holm • EST • 2011 • Animation
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FEAR OF THE DARK Sick Dead • Miguel G. Catalán • ESP • 2012 • Fiction The Backwater Gospel • Bo Mathorne • DNK • 2011 • Animation Attack of the Giant Brain Sucker Monster from Outer Space • G. Rieu • FRA • 2011 • Fiction Videoclub • Roberto Domínguez, Jorge Manzaneque & Macgregor • ESP • 2012 • Fiction The Voice • Nikos Tseberopoulos • GRC • 2012 • Fiction The Elaborate End of Robert Ebb • C.Bolla, F. Goby, M. Landour • FRA • 2011 • Fiction Fist Of Jesus • Adrián Cardona, David Muñoz • ESP • 2012 • Fiction AFTER MIDNIGHT Best Friend • Egor Chichkanov • RUS • 2013 • Fiction La Granja • Ignacio Lasierra • ESP • 2012 • Fiction Horizon • Aitor Uribarri • ESP • 2012 • Fiction Alexis • Alberto Evangelio • ESP • 2013 • Fiction Tin & Tina • Rubin Stein • ESP • 2013 • Fiction Images in Language • Pablo Palazón • ESP • 2013 • Fiction
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VENUES KAASMARKTSCHOOL • www.kaasmarktschool.nl This former school became a gathering place for artists in 1985. Nowadays the Kaasmarktschool comprises all sorts of studios and workspaces. Its gymzaal provides one of the most atmospheric screening venues of the festival and in Leiden. The screening of the official competition of LISFE 2013 takes place at the Kaasmarktschool, offering visitors a unique opportunity to meet the artists! MIJN FOTOWERKPLAATS • www.mijnfotowerkplaats.nl MIJN FOTOWERKPLAATS started in January 2013 at the Oude Rijn 94 in Leiden. For a hundred years the building was used as a carpenter’s workshop. Now Marike Benschop and Jacqueline du Prie are using this beautiful space as a photo studio. Besides working as photographers they organize workshops dedicated to creative photography for children and adults. OPEN MAKERS AAN DE MARKT • www.openmakers.nl OPEN Makers is a workspace and headquarters for many visual artists, photographers, writers, web designers, filmmakers, musicians, playwrights, designers and architects. OPEN is a project that promotes the exchange of ideas between artists with different backgrounds. The coordinators organize workshops, exhibitions and a variety of art-related activities.
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RAAMSTEEG 2 • www.raamsteeg2.nl Raamsteeg 2, in the heart of Leiden, is the former home of the Dutch National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis). For nearly a hundred years, this stately building (dating from 1899) was the focal point for natural history in the Netherlands. Recently reopened as a centre for art and science, constituting an ideal place for people seeking inspiration and food for thought, Raamsteeg 2 accommodates many workshops, films, debates, lectures and exhibitions. RAP • www.rapsite.nl Located in a former garage in Leiden, RAP (Rijnlands Architectuur Platform) is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to “architecting” bridges between the general public & architecture. RAP organises debates, lectures and exhibitions, in which architecture is presented as a wide-ranging subject: from urban planning to interior design, and from landscaping to art in public spaces. VRIJPLAATS • www.vrijplaatsleiden.nl Vrijplaats acts as a sanctuary to singular idealistic initiatives. Its intention is to develop civic engagement and cultural expression in many forms. It accommodates various independent cultural and social organisations and serves as a hotspot for the exchange of ideas between people who want to offer an original and critical look at what is happening in the world. GALERIE DE PIETER • www.galeriedepieter.nl Run by a collective of 11 artists, Galerie De Pieter wants to provide an accessible platform for artists and art lovers in Leiden. Located in the former post office in the Breestraat, the gallery exhibits the work of artists from numerous disciplines: painting, drawing, sculpture, installations and photography. – 21 –
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