SHORT FILM SESSION #2
A program of engaging, reallife narratives in short bitesized pieces, REALITY BITES presents the year’s very best documentary shorts. From cinema verité, to essay films, animations and ob-docs, this package presents a hardhitting dose of non-fiction shorts spanning the globe. At a time when truth is so often stranger than fiction, these films are not to be missed.
A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES
Dir. Lynne Sachs | 14 mins | USA | Documentary | AUS Premiere | 2019 In 1998, Barbara Hammer had a residency in a shack without electricity. She shot film and kept a journal. In 2018, Barbara began her own process of dying. She gave all of her material from the residency to Lynne Sachs and invited her to make a film. Lynne explores Barbara’s experience of solitude. She places text on screen as a confrontation with a cinema that brings us together in multiple spaces and times.
2D LOVE
Dir. Abigail Egden | 10 mins | New Zealand | Documentary | Sydney Premiere | 2019 A 24 year old New Zealander finds himself romantically attached to a fictional character from his favourite anime show. With a 2-dimensional partner that is perfect in every way (apart from being able to touch and talk and all of that), he finds himself wondering if 3D-love is still worth the risk, or if reality might have become a bit, well, irrelevant. A timely parable about human’s growing intimacy with technology, this short documentary provides a rare window into a burgeoning world of a young man grappling with love in all its dimensions.
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ANIMAL FARM
Dir. James Hollenbaugh | 3 mins | USA | Documentary | Sydney Premiere | 2019 The animals do not stay long at the ‘Animal Farm’. Animals arrive but never leave. Uncle Steve won’t let them. It’s a place where animals come to die.
