AIFF 2013: Super Shorts In Competition - "Doesn't the apple get to tell its side of the story?"

These are Super Shorts.  Under 10 minutes.  Just go see them.  If you don't like one, it will be over in a few minutes and you can start the next one.  The real trick is finding when and where they are playing.  I'll give you a little info that's somehow relevant to the picture and where to find them.  They aren't in their own program, but are mixed with longer shorts.


Group 1:  Reel/Real Life Shorts 
Sunday, Dec 8 at 3 pm  Alaska Exp Large
Saturday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 am Alaska Exp Small
(In addition to the two Super Shorts below, this program includes two Shorts that are in competition as well - Reel Life and Fucking Tøs (Damn Girl).  So there are two Danish films in this program.)

Anatomy of Injury 
Danielle Lessovitz
USA
5m    ✓   

From her website:

Danielle Lessovitz is a filmmaker from Kansas City, Kansas currently working in New York City. She is a graduate of Northwestern University where she studied documentary film and sound design for installations. She is currently an MFA candidate within NYU's Graduate Film Program. Her work has been screened at film festivals including Torino International Film Festival, Philadelphia International Film Festival, Rooftop Films Summer Series, and San Francisco Short Film Festival. In 2013 she received a New Filmmaker award from the Philadelphia Jewish Film Society and Best Heartland short at The Kansas City Film Festival for her film, The Earthquake. She is the recipient of a Ben Lazaroff award for screenwriting and received a Ben Wasserman Scholarship for her studies at NYU. Her video installations have been included in a number of public art exhibitions around the country. She is fluent in Italian and looks forward to feature filmmaking.

Sunday, Dec 8 at 3 pm  Alaska Exp Large
Saturday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 am Alaska Exp Small
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Life* *

Lasse Lorenzen    

Denmark
2m    ✓   

Image and Director Statement from the MKE Shortfest Blog:

Director Statement
Even in the bleakest and darkest of times life will find a way to add color and cheer.

LIFE is in short, a short film about the meaning of life.

The story had been flying around in my mind for quite a while. I always had the urge to show how I experience life in its essence. I remember being a kid and seeing all these extremely serious adult humanbeings who never seemed to have any FUN - and vowing to never end up like that. Now, being an adult myself I do feel that life is very serious and at its core not very fun at all. But the kid in me still pops up and tries to force me to puncture that bubble of adulthood. And often at the most inopportune moments in life. . .

Sunday, Dec 8 at 3 pm  Alaska Exp Large
Saturday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 am Alaska Exp Small
**Life also plays in Global Village Shorts:
Saturday, December 7  2:30 pm Alaska Experience Large
Saturday, December 14 1:30 pm Alaska Experience Small

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Group 2:  Global Village Shorts

Saturday, December 7  2:30 pm Alaska Experience Large
Saturday, December 14 1:30 pm Alaska Experience Small

This program also includes one longer short in competition - Jonah. 
 
Separation Sonnet 
Andressa Furletti
USA
8m    ✓

Image from Andressa Furletti's website - Click to enalrge

Saturday, December 7  2:30 pm Alaska Experience Large
Saturday, December 14 1:30 pm Alaska Experience Small
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Life* *

Lasse Lorenzen    
Denmark
2m    ✓ 

Saturday, December 7  2:30 pm Alaska Experience Large
Saturday, December 14 1:30 pm Alaska Experience Small

Also playing in Reel/Real Life Program - see above for more info.
Sunday, Dec 8 at 3 pm  Alaska Exp Large
Saturday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 am Alaska Exp Small *****************************************************



Group 3:  Family Film Festival, 
Saturday, Dec. 14 at Loussac Wilda Marston Auditorium
(There's a program that starts at 11am and it repeats at 1pm.  This is a free program.)

Tooth Fairy image from Eugene Film Festival site

The Toothfairy
Rachel Sonnenberg
USA
4m    ✓   


Sunday, Dec 8 at 3 pm  Alaska Exp Large
Saturday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 am Alaska Exp Small
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Paradigm
Stephen Boyer
USA
5m    ✓   


This one I found online.  Things have evolved since I started blogging these festivals.  In the beginning, if a film were online, it was disqualified, but things have loosened up.  I once was conflicted about putting a whole film up here, but I've gotten over that.  I shouldn't baby my readers.  If it's out there, they should decide if they want to see it here or at the festival or both.   I understand the word Paradigm, but didn't catch why it's the title of this film. 



Sunday, Dec 8 at 3 pm  Alaska Exp Large
Saturday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 am Alaska Exp Small
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Poison Apple
Dane Neves
USA
9m    ✓   

"Doesn't the apple get to tell its side of the story?"  Dane Neves

Here's a video I found about the making of Poison Apple.  It's longer than the film.


Sunday, Dec 8 at 3 pm  Alaska Exp Large
Saturday, Dec. 14 at 11:30 am Alaska Exp Small

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