Review: Ballast (2020)
The unnamed boy (Emilian Bech-Aronsen, perfectly fitting the role) is bored stiff on a family gathering where nobody pays any attention to him. So he goes looking for trouble…
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Review: Clean With Me (After Dark) (2020)
Buckle up for a devastating short documentary by Gabrielle Stemmer called Clean With Me (After Dark) that is currently playing at Uppsala International Short Film Festival ironically or not in the slot titled Free Time.
Programme overview: Dance Apocalyptic
As the great Alejandro Jodorowsky pointed out in his comeback autobiographic feature film The Dance of Reality (2013), the things we take for granted and fixed are actually quite fluid and the moves within them are more like dance than an easily measurable regular movement.
Review: The Affected (2020)
Gregersen manages to mix a couple of genres, most notably the morality play and the dry Scandinavian comedy and to pack them in a nail-biter of a short film.
Program overview: Uppsala National Competition, Slot 1
The first batch of films in the national competition of the Uppsala International Short Film Festival, happening physically and online as well this year, was marked by the inter- and intrapersonal human relationships.
Review: Midas. (2020)
Life tends to go in cycles for Matias Idas, played by Johan Widerberg, the hero of Jakob Marky’s short film Midas.
Review: Mother’s (2019)
A group of drag artists is getting ready for the show. The men are applying their make-up and having casual conversations with one another.
Review: Locomotor (2019)
An anthropomorphic steam train runs on its legs as fast as it can over the tracks, until it suddenly falls into a pool of oil
Review: Black and White Colours (2019)
Black and White Colours deftly defies the genre borders, fluidly balancing between the comedy, drama and horror. Golub’s sense of style is inch-perfect, channelling that of a 70s television with 4:3 aspect ratio and highly saturated colours.
