2012 WMWFF Official Blog -《Fearless 19》

 
Triple Axxxel
LAMATHILDE
Canada│2003│Animation│Beta Cam│Color│3min30sec
But, you may say, we asked you to watch about ice-skating and gender─what, has that got to do with film? The filmmaker tries to explain by a pornographic collage of figure-skating footage.
Date&Time：
10/20 (Thu) 13:15
10/22 (Sat)  20:15

 
Newly Risen Decay
Giada GHIRINGHELLI
UK／Switzerland│2011│Animation／Experimental│Digi Beta│B&W│8min5sec
In the ceaseless flux I stand, condemned to fall apart. I am no form. No flesh. Nothing. And so then what is left? Everything moves itself and nothing remains.
Date&Time：
10/15 (Sat) 22:45
10/17 (Mon) 20:30

 
Cees
Viola GRIEBUGART
France│2010│Documentary／Fiction│Digi Beta│Color│9min
Cees is a short docu-fiction about the filmmaker and her grandfather. Two years ago, her grandfather found himself increasingly isolated from the exterior world, confronted with the acute deterioration of his body, loneliness and longing for intimacy. The filmmaker feels the need to spend time with him without any distance.
Date&Time：
10/15 (Sat) 22:45
10/17 (Mon) 20:30

 
Mémoire des choses qui tombent
Aurélie PEDRON
Canada│2009│Experimental│Digi Beta│Color│10min
Shot over a period of one year, this video takes as its topic climate change. The videographic and choreographic elements adopt the frenzied and uncontrollable rhythm of this change while suggesting the precariousness of the future and an impression of accelerating time.
Date&Time：
10/15 (Sat) 22:45
10/17 (Mon) 20:30

 
Phagocyte
Laurie COLSON
Belgium│2009│Experimental│Digi Beta│Color│12min
Because when you’re two you don’t breathe as well, you end by being asphyxiated…Speaking about the double and making use of the twin’s image. Using the image as a representation leads to one’s own solitude. Because the symbiosis is a delusion. Because you’re alone.
Date&Time：
10/15 (Sat) 22:45
10/17 (Mon) 20:30

 
(The Importance of) Hair
Christina HÖGLUND
Sweden│2010│Documentary│Digi Beta│Color│14min
About losing your looks, suddenly, and what happens then...well, it’s just the hair. But what if your personality is more in the skin and your output than you thought? A film about panic, grief and fear to lose the one you love. And worse, about losing yourself.
Date&Time：
10/15 (Sat) 22:45
10/17 (Mon) 20:30

 
The Boxing Ladies
Anusha NANDAKUMAR
India│2010│Documentary│Digi Beta│Color│26min
Zainab, Bushra, and Sughra stay in the confines of a small slum in Kolkata, India. They are all national level boxers. The film explores the lives of these three spirited girls and their dreams to break the mould of the stereotypes of Muslim women and rise above their living conditions.
Date&Time：
10/20 (Thu) 13:15
10/22 (Sat) 20:15

 
Butoh, Barefoot Dance Show
Kana YAMAGUCHI／Yu YAMANOI
Japan│2011│Documentary│Digi Beta│Color│40min
Kei ISHIKAWA, a young, well-trained female dancer, finally holds a one-person show with her own direction after joining in the Butoh team “Tenku-Yoran” and becomes the apprentice of the dance master Daisuke YOSHIMOTO. She decides to become a Butoh dancer and free herself from strict rules of classic ballet, while she faces many difficulties.
Date&Time：
10/20 (Thu) 13:15
10/22 (Sat) 20:15

 
Women Without A Pause: A Universal Reality
Paula PALACIOS
France│2010│Documentary│Digi Beta│Color│54min
The film compares the most significant transition in all women’s life throughout different cultures. Women from France, Brazil, Japan, Tanzania and U.S.A. share their experiences and remind us that the menopause is a universal reality.
Date&Time：
10/15 (Sat) 21:30
10/18 (Tue) 17:30

 
Im Fluss
Claudia LORENZ／ Cecilia BARRIGA
Switzerland／Spain│2007│Fiction│Digi Beta│Color│5min40sec
For decades, two 70-year-old Swiss sisters have enjoyed each other’s company. They swim as daily ritual, and during which they meditate on friendship and love, and wonder what life would be when either of them passes away. Their lives are so interwoven that solitude becomes hard to imagine.
Date&Time：
10/15 (Sat) 21:30
10/18 (Tue) 17:30