DEKATUR CLUB
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL!
List of Short Films and Documentaries (from 2.01 to 13.15 minutes):
-"Light" (3m 35) by Albert Kolarickal.
- "Rat Race"(4m 39 ) by Steve Cutts.
- " Mobile World" (2m 29) by Steve Cutts.
- “Man" (4m) by Steve Cutts.
- "Ceviche"(9m 37) by Domenica Garcia.
- "Cowboy Joe"(5m 45) by Jingjing Tian.
- "Room 8"(6m 20) by James W Griffiths.
- "A house for Zaha Hadid" (7m 39) by Architektor 92 Veron.
- “The unequal Opportunity Race”(4m 09) by Erica Pinto.
-“Murmurations" (2m 01) by Jan Van Ijken.
"Family Rewritten" (13m 15) by Yasmin Mistry.
1)“Light “by Albert Kolarickal . Award winning short film. No actors,no dialogue, only 3 mints,Switch off ? Contributing Artist: Albert Kolarickal Studio AKS.
2)3)4)“Rat Race”, "Mobile World” and “Man” by Steve Cutts. He is an illustrator and animator based in London, England. His work satirises the excesses of modern society. His style is inspired by 1930s and 40s cartoons, as well as modern comic books and graphic novels.
5)- “Ceviche” by Domenica Garcia. Doménica García is an Ecuadorian video and performance artist based in New York.
She spent her early years in Mexico City and moved to New York, in order pursue her Filmmaking studies at the School of Visual Arts.Her work dives into a process of introspection, decomposing the personal and discovering the universal. With the use of an hyperbolic language and the juxtaposition of the radical and the ordinary, she gives greater relevance to the day-to day experience. Her most recent work includes: “Corazón Entristecido” a performance, video and installation presented at the Queens Art Intervention and the Queens Museum.
6)-“Cowboy Joe” by Jingjing Tian. Published in Paper: "Chinese-American filmmaker Jingjing Tian created a six-minute short film that challenges a common archetype of the ever-elusive American Dream: The western cowboy. Cowboy Joe, then, is an exploration of how that archetype remains a powerful symbol of American masculinity, adventure, and old-fashioned virtues, including hard work and rugged individualism."
7)- “Room 8” bu James W Griffiths,Winner of the BAFTA for Short Film 2014. He picked up the BAFTA for Best British Short Film for ‘ Room 8', a film co-produced by Independent Films and Gravity Road for Bombay Sapphire gin.
8)-“A house for Zaha Hadid” by Architektor 92 Veron. Zaha Hadid is my favorite architecte. Her Architectural Firm created this video.
9)-“The unequal Opportunity Race” by Erica Pinto.Short film for the African American Policy Forum, showing metaphors for obstacles to equality which affirmative action tries to alleviate. All graphics and animation by Erica Pinto
10)-“Murmurations” by Jan Van Ijken.The art of flying is a short film about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show. Because of the relatively warm winter of 2014/2015, the starlings stayed in the Netherlands instead of migrating southwards. This gave filmmaker Jan van IJken the opportunity to film one of the most spectacular and amazing natural phenomena on earth.
11)“Family Rewritten” by Yasmin Mistry.Despite battling Cystic Fibrosis, Camilla, age 16, identifies as a typical middle-class American teenager until the thread that holds her family together suddenly snaps. Just months before her 18th birthday Camilla finds herself in foster care, but instead of being ashamed, she makes a conscious decision to not let her situation define her.
Family Rewritten is the third film in a series of documentary films Yasmin Mistry is creating which give foster youth a chance to tell their own stories. Current and former foster youth work behind the scenes on all the films in the series, which helps keep the stories authentic. Yasmin works with foster youth as a Court Appointed Special Advocate and was introduced to Camilla through the editor of Represent Magazine. Represent is a magazine which gives foster youth a chance to write and publish their stories and Camilla had just signed on to write for them. Camilla was a highschool senior at that time and wanted to major in English so it was a perfect fit for her. The artwork you see throughout the film uses type as texture. That type is combination of Camilla's writing and poetry about her personal journey, as well as the poetry of another foster youth named Princess who also wrote about her experiences in foster care.
"DEKATUR CLUB SHORT FILM FESTIVAL JURY” :
-MAN-LAI: Man-Laï has a boutique event planning and Creative Marketing company based in New York City.She has been planning events in New York City and all over the world for more than 15 years. I love to imagine, personalize, organize and supervise. Man-Lai personally handle the event design ,selection of the venue,set decor,flowers,make-up artistry&hair styling,lighting,staffing,music & entertainment,audiovisuel,
caterer,event security&logistics,public relations and social media.www.man-lai.com
-BRIAN PORTZACK:Writer/director/producer Brian Porzak is a filmmaker who, also, has a background in theatrical film and TV distribution and marketing, both foreign and domestic. Brian became the Company’s liaison with the Producers of the James Bond and Beatles films, as well as being responsible for the Company buying the foreign rights to Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman.Brian is presently in pre-production with Jaba Entertainment on the feature films Let’s Do It, which he wrote and will direct next spring, and the theatrical musical Monster Mania!, which he created and on which he is a co-producer.
-MICHAEL JACKSON: Mickael Jackson is a professional financial systems project manager and a real estate investor. He loves history, films, culture and the influence of design and architecture. Extensively travelling the world, Mickael is currently learning French and Portugese and has plans to start his own global financial investment firm this year.
-BEATRICE DUPIRE: Béatrice Dupire is a Creative Director, Curator , Digital Content Strategist & Futurist for a roster of a high profile clients in luxury, beauty, fashion and contemporary art. Since 2018 Partners of The Society Of Scent, a start up, combining a laboratory creating scent and creative studio, shaping the Future of Smell/ @thesocietyofscent. Founder of The International Festival of Fashion Photography in Paris under the High Patronage of French Ministry of Culture, Conde Nast Group & Dentsu Group, Beatrice was invited by Monsieur Yves St Laurent & Pierre Berge to curate "Yves St Laurent, Forty Years of Creation", Exhibition & Book.
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-DONATION OF $5 at the Door.(Eris at the Door).
-You Have to bring Your Own Bottle: Champagne, Prosecco or White wine.
Please Do Not Bring Red Wine, Thanks .
It is too risky for my Grand-Parents’ antique chairs :)
Saturday April 20’s schedule:
-From 7- 8.30 pm: Cocktail, people arrival.
-At 8.30 pm: Dekatur Club Film Festival.
-From 10-12 pm: Cocktail and mingling.
We will be happy to see you!
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(This is mandatory, Eris is at the door with the RSVP list)
Thanks.
Virginie.
Dekatur Club’s Founder