Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.
Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: SPACEBOY (A FILM IN SEVEN SONGS)
Best Music VIdeo: HOW TO GET OVER YOU
Best Direction: MORE TOGETHER
Best Animation: BEATINGS ARE IN THE BODY
HOW TO GET OVER YOU, 4min., Australia
Directed by Adam Jordan
How to Get Over You is about experiencing rejection from a romantic relationship that never was and the smouldering grief that is experienced in isolation for a time thereafter. The song speaks to the helplessness that comes from navigating how to get over someone, and touches on moments of muscle memory and routine in daily life that makes the process of moving on even harder.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
MORE TOGETHER, 38min., Canada
Directed by Jake Foy
After years of best friendship, teenage Tom and Lucy finally surrender to spending the night together. As their new love blossoms, and Lucy’s ‘time of the month’ is late, the pair are forced to face the music of adulthood head-on.
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SPACEBOY (A FILM IN SEVEN SONGS), 27min., Canada
Directed by Naomi Silver-Vézina
Naomi Silver-Vézina weaves the Montreal artist’s L’INDICE seventh album through a short film. At the top of a church tower, a man wakes up weakened and disoriented. He must find the strength to cross this strange place in order to find an exit. SPACEBOY explores loss of autonomy, loneliness and isolation through a quest towards self-acceptance and grief.
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BEATINGS ARE IN THE BODY, 16min., Canada
Directed by Melissa Hubert
Beatings Are in the Body is an artful exploration of how memories, pain, and a spectrum of emotions are stored in and continue to be carried by our physical bodies. Borrowing the project’s name from a work by Canadian poet Meaghan McAneeley, Beatings Are in the Body is a bracingly beautiful music collaboration between Montreal’s Erika Angell (Thus Owls) on voice/electronics, Róisín Adams (Hildegard’s Ghost) on piano/wurlitzer/voice, and acclaimed Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee. Together with multimedia visual artist Melissa Hubert, they represent an abstract narrative through four selections from their debut album premiering in the Spring 2023. Melissa Hubert is often mixing a variety of analog and digital mediums and her work encompasses a strong emphasis on the visual connection in combination with music, exploring unconventional methods of digital animation using organic materials to create a feeling of ‘supernatural awe’ within a digital landscape.
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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
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