Gone Astray
The infinite pathways of bewilderment.
To “go astray” is an essential ingredient of any filmic narratives capable of evoking the eternal conflict between reason and madness, a theme that more than others express the human condition always in balance between the orderly pace of the things that allows to live in a world common to all, where communication and exchange are possible, and the onset of the irrational which disrupts the world, dismantles communication, dissolves the boundaries of reality but also opens to new possibilities. Here we present 5 short films that, in their own manner, narrate the possibility of “losing the track”.
Total runtime: about 50 mins.
Berit, Sutri (Italy) 2010, ph © Tommaso Fagioli.
Dan Invited Hanna Over for Dinner
An unexpected dinner invitation disrupts Hanna's life. Idiosyncrasies and anxieties in the life of a modern young couple.
2012 | 5 - 10 | Canada | Drama | Live-Action | Love
Hanna’s day life is abruptly shaken by an unexpected dinner invitation from her boyfriend. “Dan does not know how to cook, I’ve never been invited to dinner at his house”, she thinks. This sudden event disorients her day. Pretty much everyone is familiar with those little moments in a relationship that manage to regress even…
Sergeant Slaughter, My Big Brother
Tom Hardy plays a temperamental aspiring soldier in a story of brotherly love and strife.
10 – 15 | 2011 | Drama | Family | Live-Action | USA
Tom Hardy stars as Sergeant Dan in this short film that marks the directorial debut of photographer Greg Williams. His decision to enlist in the Foreign Legion will have an impact on his younger brother, Keith, and on their relationship. Dan, the stronger and more authoritarian brother, and his bellicose temperament dominate the weaker and…
Sleepwalk
The presage of the end is consumed in front of our eyes, but there is still time for a last love gesture.
0 – 5 | 2013 | Animation | Drama | Dystopia | USA
The slow-paced melancholic riff of “Sleep Walk“ from by brothers Santo & Johnny (1959) entitles a nd introduces into the scene of this little animated short about the end of the world: back alleys, glimpses of buildings and skyscrapers of a New York dipped in a funerl light crumble up where an ominous hole black is swallowing, within…
Whateverest
A documentary that moves and entertains on an anonymous anti-hero of the province and his passion for electronic music.
15 – 20 | 2012 | Chronicle | Documentary | Human Nature | Norway
The beauty of micro-doc is that its formal requirements (brevity and synthesis) obligates to discard too big and complex topics – which would require a greater deepening and the right time to fully narrate them – in favour of apparently more marginal and irrelevant stories which may anyhow contain wide and universal meanings. “Whateverst” is the…
Sniffer
In a not so distant future, the absence of gravity complicates the everyday life, but for true dreamers it could also be a way to escape it all.
2006 | 5 - 10 | Dystopia | Norway | Retro | Sci-Fi
In a not so distant future, not much has changed… except for the force of gravity. For some reason, it’s really hard to be “down to earth”. People have to bind themselves to the bed at night, and the only way to walk around is by wearing heavy boots made of metal (an imposition from…