We are pleased to present curated short films from our Fine Arts Film Festival 2019 at the LA Art Show in downtown LA starting beginning with the VIP Opening NIght and continuing throughout the Fair.
Films:
X-Power (United States)
Student Film - 3 minutes
X-Power is a uniquely crafted animated film that questions production and consumption ideologies and the unsated appetite for what is offered, despite the environmental destruction imposed on the earth.
Director: Vivian Vivas
Sing to Me (United States)
Music/Performance - 7 minutes
This experimental dance film creates an image driven and sound sensitive atmosphere for the original song, “Sing To Me” by Wes Swing. Lyrical and enticing, the performances counteract with the sunlit decay of the surroundings.
Director: Wes Swing
Roots Grow Together (United States)
Short Narrative - 10 minutes
A chance encounter leads throughout the city. Is one to root for the guy - or the girl…or both? Is it real?
Director: Hart Ginsburg
je ne dors plus (Russia)
Experimental/Performance - 5 minutes
Nikita Dmitrievsky brings his Bolshoi ballet and modern dance training to the forefront in this experimental, evocative dance film featuring Dasha Lovtsova. Renowned in Russia and Europe, he was born in Moscow to the family of the Bolshoi Theater ballerina Irina Skroznikova and the operator/film director Vladimir Demetrievsky.
Director: Nikita Dmitrievsky
Be You T. Fool (Australia)
Short Documentary - 6 minutes
After drawing people on the train for years, an anonymous street artist reveals her secret - the practice of pasting portraits on the pillars of Chandler Highway Bridge in Alphington, Melbourne.
Director: Brendan Pinches
Remission (United States)
Experimental - 7 minutes
Vibrant creature costumes and visuals allow three unique creatures to evoke an unknown soldier’s war trauma and his vast, lonely pilgrimage through a purgatory loop.
Directors: John Charter and artist Paul Kaiser
Looking for Monsters (Norway)
Short Documentary - 10 minutes
We are introduced to textile artist Pia Antonsen Rognes’ tactile, dramatic work through an ominous pink universe. In her quest for an aesthetic expression of internal monsters, inspirations such as Barbie, larvae, horror aesthetics, and even silicone hands become part of the work.
Director: Magnús Elvar Jónsson
The Distraction Towers (United States)
Experimental - 13 minutes
With an overlay of heightened reality and fantasy that is both familiar and nexpected, this fun and quirky film explores and tickles the limits and folly of understanding.
Director: David Baeumler
Meltdown: Weapons Of Mass Construction (United States)
Experimental - 9 minutes
The death toll from gun violence in the U.S. per capita is catastrophic. How do guns affect our society and what is being done - how do we turn swords into plowshares?
Directors: May Sun and Juri Koll