61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has been part of the highly charged field of short films for over 50 years now, as a catalyst and a showcase for contemporary developments, a forum for what are often heated discussions, a discoverer of new trends and talent, and not least as one of the most important short film institutions anywhere in the world. Some 6,000 films submitted on average per year, around 500 films shown in the festival programmes and over 1,100 accredited industry professionals are proof enough.

In the course of more than five decades, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen has become one of the world's most respected film events - a place where filmmakers and artists ranging from Roman Polanski to Cate Shortland, from George Lucas to Pipilotti Rist have presented their first films. Oberhausen has managed to instigate various political and aesthetical developments, for instance through the Oberhausen Manifesto, perhaps the most important group document in the history of German film. Careful programming and a pioneering choice of subjects has helped the Festival to build up its exclusive position in an increasingly unpredictable market.

ARTos Foundation is proud to welcome for the first time two screening programs of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen which will take place on the 13 & 14 May 2015, at ARTos Foundation, Nicosia. Further Screenings in Cyprus include the 5 June 2015 at TECHNO.POLIS 20 Cultural Centre, Paphos and 6 & 7 June 2015, at the Pierides Museum, Larnaka, in collaboration with the Larnaka Cinema Society.

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is taking place within the framework of the 7th X-Dream Festival

English & German Language 
English subtitles

Screening Programs & Synopsis:

Artist Film & Video 2014 (Running time 84')
ARTos: 13 May 2015 / TECHNO.POLIS 20: 5 June 2015 / Pierides Museum: 6 June 2015
Five films between Black Box and White Cube that confront the past and ask in diverse ways “What remains?” Whilst Lior Shamriz both literally and figuratively investigates a bygone picture of Berlin, Josef Dabernig shows us in brilliantly composed black-and-white images people sitting on the banks of an Italian river who simply appropriate the landscape – regardless of its inhospitality. La estancia, winner of this year’s Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen, depicts a massacre sparked by the battle for land rights in Paraguay, reconstructed as a series of subtle tableaux. The directors in this film programme employ a range of very unusual techniques and aesthetics, and some of their works have been shown to great acclaim in art exhibitions. Taken together, these films, some of them award-winning, give viewers an insight into the current state of international artist films.

Amour sauvage, L'
Germany, 2014, 26' by Lior Shamriz
Synopsis: Lost love, lost artistic collaboration, the two are meeting for one night as she briefly visits the city where he still lives. 

xx-xx-xx-gewobenes papier
Germany, 2014, 6', by Michel Klöfkorn
Synopsis: I wanted to make a film about de-weaving… Aren’t things here much too confusing complicated complected? I sent huge posters into the document shredder to have them cut into strips.

River Plate
Austria, 2013, 16', by Josef Dabernig
Synopsis: The film is set along the gravel banks of a flowing river in northern Italy, where a group of swimmers has gathered on a hot summer day.

False Twins
Portugal, 2014, 21', by Sandro Aguilar
Synopsis: Hidden memories and lost treasures of our primeval inhabitants. 

Estancia, La
Paraguay, 2014, 14', by Federico Adorno
Synopsis: A group of peasants enters La Estancia in search of their missing relatives. Are they dead? Are they alive? Nobody knows. Some survivors of the massacre hide in the forest wandering around in shock.

German MuVi Award 2014 (Running time 63’)
ARTos: 14 May 2015 / TECHNO.POLIS 20: 5 June 2015 / Pierides Museum: 7 June 2015
This programme gathers together all the works nominated for the 2014 German Music Video Award, supplemented by three artistically outstanding international videos.

Carmin (AURAT)
Germany 2013, 3'30'', by Markus Frohnhöfer

Cream Theme (Mouse on Mars)
Germany 2014, 3', by Zeitguised
Synopsis: Escapism is freedom if claimed by a subject - it cannot be consumed. 

Der Investor (Die Goldenen Zitronen)
Germany 2013, 4', by Ted Gaier / Katharina Duve / Timo Schierhorn

Easy Or Not (Tim Neuhaus ft. Kat Frankie)
Germany 2013, 4', by Dietrich Brüggemann
Synopsis: Two people fight for space in one sweater. 

Einundzwanzig (Jan Roth)
Germany 2013, 4', by Martin Eichhorn / Daniel Spindler

Giddy (Perera Elsewhere ft. Gonjasufi)
Germany 2013, 4', by Pussykrew

Live Young (Diamond Version)
Germany 2013, 3'30'', by Diamond Version-TV

No Lesson Learned (Mary Ocher)
Germany 2013, 2'30'', by Mary Ocher / Tom Plate

Terror of the District (Beisspony)
Germany 2014, 5'30'', by Stephanie Müller

Transcendental Animal Numbers (Jan St. Werner)
Germany 2013, 5'30'', by Jan St. Werner

UNSERHAUS for the New Era (Masahiro Miwa)
Germany 2014, 5', by Noriyuki Kimura
Synopsis: The New Era is music automatically generated by an algorithmic composition by Masahiro Miwa.

Verstrahlt (Dagobert)
Germany 2013, 3'30'', by Klaus Lemke

MOUTHMAN (Herrmutt Lobby)
Belgium 2014, 2'30'', by Antonin de Bemels

Autour du lac (Carl & les hommes-boîtes)
Belgium 2013, 5', by Noémie Marsily / Carl Roosens

Chorus (Holly Herndon)
USA 2014, 6'30'', by Akihiko Taniguchi