shortfilm.de NEWSLETTER No. 1

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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 at 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=112&lang_id=2


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 Münster, 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 Métrage (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=7&lang_id=2


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=59&lang_id=2


AWARDS AND HONOURS

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

"Freunde - The Whiz Kids" by Jan Krüger 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 
Filmbüro 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, Århus September 2001 ...
__ Short Film Award at the Montréal World Film Festival, September 2001...
__ Sprengel Preis for Bjørn Melhus ...
__ Awards presented at the São 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=60&lang_id=2


DATES

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

.... read "Dates": 
http://www.shortfilm.de/ikf/pages/magazin/index.php?id=61&lang_id=2


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