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www.shortfilm.de
NEWSLETTER No. 1 (October 2001)


EDITORIAL

Dear Readers!

As of today, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is presenting
a completely new website at www.kurzfilmtage.de. With its new design and
structure, including streamings and a wide range of services added, the
relaunch is not merely a reworked festival site, but instead represents a
year-round Internet portal dedicated to promoting the international short=
 film.

The Magazine www.shortfilm.de will research and report on the short film
scene independently from the Festival itself. The Web-Magazine will
endeavour to grant the short film the attention it deserves and to provide
it with its own forum reflecting the diverse array of activities
surrounding this genre while also taking on the role of a creative
sensorium. In its editorial reporting, shortfilm.de intends to give short
film the degree of attention usually reserved for feature-length film while
underlining its real significance. One of the main tasks of shortfilm.de is
the promotion and publicizing of events, projects, tendencies and talents,
as well as providing a vehicle for the regular exchange of information
between young filmmakers, professionals and the film industry. The magazine
is designed to address both German and international readers. The objective
is to provide comprehensive information on short film policies and
developments taking place on the short film scene.

www.shortfilm.de is an online magazine for the short film that is
editorially independent of the International Short Film Festival
Oberhausen. In addition to a monthly theme article, the magazine will
contain interviews, commentaries and news. Subscription to this e-mail
newsletter will inform users in advance of upcoming topics. Shortfilm.de
also offers a service including newsletter, calendar and address and
link-lists and, last but not least, a Forum intended to inspire an exchange
between all those working in the short film scene. Its focus will be on the
areas of service, news and film policies. In the mid-term, the magazine
hopes to engage the participation of national and international partners,
in order to provide the short film with an independent medium, bundling the
varied activities surrounding this genre and representing them in a fitting
manner.

Our next newsletter will be send in November.

Reinhard W. Wolf
Editor

mailto:editor@shortfilm.de



TOPIC

The Short Film - A Media Non-Issue?

In both written film history and film criticism, the short film is
consistently overlooked. Even in the most comprehensive treatments, such as
the "Geschichte des deutschen Films", one searches in vain for a chapter
dealing with the short film genre.
Even German film magazines rarely report on short films; when they do, it's
only in the context of festivals and even then only when these are devoted
exclusively to short films. To cite just one recent example, the festival
press reporting from Venice complained about the absence of a German
presence at the show, while failing to take notice of the fact that
"Freunde", which happens to be a German short film, actually received a
prestigious award there ...
weiter lesen:
http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=3D112&lang_id=3D2


NEWS

The Cantrills are coming to Europe!

The Australian filmmakers and film activists, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill,
are coming to Europe and will be visiting Germany in November.
Arthur & Corinne Cantrill are two of the leading experimental filmmakers
and film critics in Australia, and have achieved international renown not
only for their well over 100 short films, but also for their major role in
the Super 8 scene. They've also shot some longer films - including "The
Second Journey (To Uluru)" - and have delved into such themes as 'chromatic
articulation'. In addition to formal experiments with colour and light,
many of their films deal with both natural and cultural landscapes. The
Cantrills' most well-known achievement, however, is their influential
magazine "Cantrill's Filmnotes", which they published starting in 1971
until public funding was cut off at the end of 1999.
Arthur & Corinne Cantrill are bringing only a small selection of their
prolific short film production with them to Europe (a roughly 2 1/2-hour
programme with around 20 titles) and also plan to give a talk on precursors
of the cinema ("Proto-cinema: The First Mass Media"). Included in their
programme are "The Land is Not Empty" and four of their newest short films
from 2001.
They will visit the following stations on their tour: 6 November SCRATCH
(Paris), 9 November Mire (Nantes), 15 November Brussels Film Museum, 16 +
17 Nov. Filmhuis Den Haag, 19 Nov. Amsterdam Film Museum Amsterdam, 21 Nov.
Kino 46 in Bremen, 22 Nov. Die Linse in M=FCnster, 26 Nov. National Film
Archive Prague, 29 Nov. - 1 Dec. Arsenal Berlin, 2 Dec. Kinemathek
Karlsruhe, 4 Dec. Frankfurt Film Museum.

More News:
__ MOMA shows British advertising films ...
__ Special exhibit of the KHM at the Art Cologne 2001 ...
__ Nationwide German Campaign "Aktionstag der Kommunalen Kinos"...
__ Transition solution for the Swiss Short Film Agency ...
__ Short film banned in Turkey ...
__ Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2001 ...
__ The iotaCenter presents Kinetica 3 ...
__ New films distributed by the Agence Court M=E9trage (France) ...
__ New films distributed by "KurzfilmVerleihHamburg" ...
__ Human Rights Film Award winners distributed free of charge ...
__ Lux Centre in London was closed unexpectedly ...

.... read:=
 http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=3D7&lang_id=3D2


FAITS DIVERS

__ Danger! Trojan short film! ...
__ Paul McCartney accompanies his short film to the Lido in Venice ...
__ Non-Stop Short Film Festival in Nuremberg - We'll watch anything! ...
__ Star directors shoot short films for BMW ...
__ Internet films for Absolut Vodka ...
__ Who or what is "Jameson"? ...
__ 20th Century Fox tries to prohibit the distribution of a book about the
Simpsons ...
__ Hamlet in 111 short film sequences ...
__ Short Films on Television ...

.... read "Faits
Divers": =
 http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=3D59&lang_id=3D2


AWARDS AND HONOURS

Silver Lion (Leone d'Argento) at the 58th Venice Film Festival goes to=
 Germany

"Freunde - The Whiz Kids" by Jan Kr=FCger was awarded the Silver Lion for
best short film at this year's Venice Film Festival. "Freunde" was the
28-year-old's final-year film at the Cologne KHM Academy of Media Arts. The
Filmb=FCro NW e.V. (Film Institute of the German State of North Rhine
Westphalia) provided funding for the 21-minute short film. ...

More Awards and Honours:
__ Short Film Awards at Nordisk Panorama, =C5rhus September 2001 ...
__ Short Film Award at the Montr=E9al World Film Festival, September 2001...
__ Sprengel Preis for Bj=F8rn Melhus ...
__ Awards presented at the S=E3o Paulo International Short Film Festival=
 2001 ...
__ Award winners at Short Cuts Cologne 2001 ...
__ Award winners at Videobrasil - Festival Internacional de Arte
electronica ...
__ Award winners at the Greek Short Film Festival in Drama ...
__ Nominations for the Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis 2001 ...

.... read:=
 http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=3D60&lang_id=3D2


DATES

__ Festivals in Germany ...
__ International Festivals ...
__ Competitions ...

.... read "Dates":
http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=3D61&lang_id=3D2


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