From the start, Tudor is depicted with a sense of estrangement: through the veil, out of focus, partly hidden behind another person.
Berlinale, Festivals, Shorts
‘My Uncle Tudor’, Berlinale review: The illusion of Consent
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Tag Archive for Berlinale Shorts
Berlinale, Festivals, Shorts
Review: Young Hearts (2021)
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One thing is certain: no one in their right mind would ever want to go back to their teen years and live through them again.
Berlinale, Experimental Films, Festivals, GSFF (Glasgow Short Film Festival), Shorts
Review: One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean (2021)
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Wang’s directing, essentially composed of editing short clips together in the rhythmical fashion, is apt for a piece of video-art
Berlinale, Documentaries, Festivals, Shorts
Review: Strange Object (2021)
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Miranda Pennell’s short documentary Strange Object, which premiered recently at Berlinale Shorts, is deliberately constructed that way so the viewer has to walk the same route of exploration as the filmmaker did previously
Berlinale, Festivals, Shorts
Review: Vadim on a Walk (2021)
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We meet our titular protagonist while he’s sitting in a transparent square space, picking up the courage to step out of it and explore the unknown world that lays in front of his eyes.
Berlinale, Festivals, Shorts
Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit (2021)
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In his Berlinale Shorts contender Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit, Gabriel Herrera paints a nonconformist picture of the Spanish conquest of Indigenous lands, set in modern context
Berlinale, Festivals, Shorts
Review: Glittering Barbieblood (2021)
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We are supposed to “paint-by-numbers” according to Ulu Braun, but how that’s another thing.
Berlinale, Documentaries, Festivals, Shorts
Review: One Hundred Steps (2021)
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Bob Quinn’s work ‘Atlantean’ is the starting point of Bárbara Wagner’s and Benjamin de Burca’s eighth joined short film ‘One Hundred Steps’ and is also referenced directly in it at one point
Berlinale, Documentaries, Festivals, Shorts
Review: A Love Song in Spanish (2021)
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The family of the filmmaker Ana Elena Tejera lived in close relations to the dictatorship in Panama in the 80s, which was mirrored in the house of her grandparents.
Berlinale, Cannes Film Festival, Festivals, Shorts
Review: Rehearsal (2021)
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Inspired by the theatricality of church sermons, Michael Omonua explores them from a performative angle, comparing them to theatre plays that need to be regularly rehearsed.
