THIS IS SHORT
The platform (thisisshort.filmchief.com) allows to see, with just one ticket, 4 European short film festivals: Go Short, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Vienna Shorts and Short Waves as well as a number of special releases in a few categories. Some are subject to geographic restrictions, as I've just experienced with "Sun Dog" - a Russian European Film Award candidate (I'm guessing that's why I couldn't get it started). Individual films are available usually for limited periods of time, i.e. a day or a few, the whole platform stays active till the end of June. The system is complicated but you only pay once and explore at your will. Each film is under 20 minutes.
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS CANDIDATES
This section releases new titles, which candidated for the Awards, once a week and they are avialable that week only.
DIE BESTE STADT IST KEINE STADT (THE BEST CITY IS NO CITY AT ALL)
Watchable. An artistic and environmentally-oriented film on the issue of spreading cities. It offers some smart tricks, e.g. "If you don't mess up the space, you don't have to clean it afterwards" and suggests "an award for money unspent". It also highlights the fact that future depicted in movies is always dystopian because a catastrophe is more likely to happen therefore easier to imagine. Clear but prolonged shots make this 15-minute short feel lengthy.
NEW POINT OF VIEW - EUROPEAN ONLINE COMPETITION
This section, with each film available for 84 hours, i.e. 3.5 days, is subject to audience voting - once you finish watching, the option of casting your vote opens.
LES ANTILOPES
Switched off. A few air shots of running antelopes are first accompanied by a philosophical commentary on these animals committing a mass suicide which gets replaced by club music accompanying the images of the animals rushing to their demise. What a sick idea!
Both had subtitles on black background so perfectly legible. The screening quality was superb.
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