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Artist Spotlight: Pierre Huyghe (Director: Pierre Huyghe; Writer: Pierre Huyghe)
A presentation of short films that have rarely been screened outside of a museum or art gallery context. Huyghe is one of France's most celebrated young artists. His multimedia installations-which are concerned with collective memory, the construction of narratives, and textures of re-enactment-have been exhibited at museums across the world including the Guggenheim, Tate Modern, and the Whitney Museums.
The Last Dining Table (Majimak Babsang) (Country: South Korea; Director: Roh Gyeong-tae; Writer: Roh Gyeong-tae; Cast: Baek Hyun-joo, Kim Do-yeon, Oh Heoung-ki, Hong Suk-yeon, Hwang Bok-soon)
This minimal and surrealist film about irony and separation poetically explores modern social problems including pollution and environmental concerns and the collapse of family values.
North American Premiere. Full Review
Offscreen (Country: Denmark; Director: Christoffer Boe; Writer: Christoffer Boe, Knud Romer Jørgensen; Cast: Nicolas Bro, Lene Maria Christensen, Karen Margrethe Bjerre, Christoffer Boe, Jakob Cedergren, Bjarke de Koning, Trine Dyrholm, Ellen Hillingsø, Joen Højerslev, Mathilde Norholt, Signe Skov)
Actor Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro - a man intent on making a film about himself. After his director friend Christoffer Boe lends him a camera, his self-monitoring is so hair-raisingly private (and creepy!) that it becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction. World Premiere.
Phantom Love (Country: US; Director: Nina Menkes; Writer: Nina Menkes; Cast: Marina Choif, Juliette Marquis, Bobby Naderi)
A surreal drama about a woman trapped within an enmeshed family, and her slow process of personal liberation. Set in Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India, the film combines fairy-tale elements with brutal black and white photography to create a powerful testament about inner transformation.
World Premiere. Full Review Official Site
Slipstream (Country: US; Director: Anthony Hopkins; Writer: Anthony Hopkins; Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Lana Antonova, Stella Arroyave, Gene Borkan, Michael Clarke Duncan)
A man discovers that life is random and fortune is sightless as he is thrown into a vortex where time, dreams and reality collide in an increasingly whirling Slipstream.
World Premiere. See: Sundance Film Festival 2006: Day 5
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Strange Culture (Country: US; Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson; Writer: Lynn Hershman-Leeson; Cast: Thomas Jay Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Peter Coyote, Josh Kornbluth, Steve Kurtz, Shoresh Alaudini, Cassie Powell, Jakob Bokulich, Larissa Clayton, Beatriz da Costa, Dr Susan Leeson)
The artist as victim of The Patriot Act.
Full Review
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Zidane, un Portrait du 21e Siècle) (Country: France; Director: Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno; Cast: Zinedine Zidane)
During the course of an entire football match, seventeen super-35mm Scope format cameras were set around the playing field focusing solely on football legend Zinedine Zidane, who agreed to become the center of attention for this out-of-the-ordinary, full-length feature film.
US Premiere. Full Review
