BFI London Film Festival Experimenta Short Film Programme: Cinema (Redacted)

Films of the imagination that ask philosophical questions of narrative: what could have happened before, what would happen if, and what did really happen?

Belle comme le jour
Dir Dominique Gonzalez-Foerester, Tristan Bera. France 2012. 12min
A prequel to Buñuel’s Belle de jour. Séverine visits has a disturbing conversation with a stranger in The Louvre.

Greystone
Dir Kerry Tribe. USA 2012. 29min
The legendary Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills, was the site of the murder of oil tycoon Ned Doheny by his secretary. But what else could have happened?

The New World
Dir Ruth Novaczek. UK-USA-Israel 2013. 23min
Women who have escaped from feature films muse on the nature of identity, love and loss.

ELSA merdelamerdelamer
Dir Abigail Child. USA 2013. 4min
Reconstruction of a film never made by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp of Baroness Freytag- Loringhoven shaving her pubic hair.

Cremer
Dir David Leister, Lucy Harris. UK 2013. 7min
Smoke damage in a film studio leaves haunting negative images that form a paean to the vanishing world of celluloid.

G/R/E/A/S/E
Dir Antoni Pinent. Spain-Switzerland-Germany 2013. 20min
A decollage deconstruction of Sandy and Danny. If Dziga Vertov had made Grease, it would look like this.

Total running time c95min