Theme: Things I Don’t Understand
Daniels Spectrum
585 Dundas Street East, Toronto M5A 2B7
“A World of Difference”, Dir. Gerald Guthrie (USA)
Canadian Premiere
8:16 Animation Category :: ‘A World of Difference’ is a digital animation that moves along a bumpy path through Space and Time to discover Truth, Perfection and Meaning.
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ_x3Mm5WPA
- Web: http://www.geraldguthrie.com/index_world.htm
Tags: Animation, Experimental, Short, Family, Avant-garde, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Surreal, Science, Satire, Art, Mystery
“MayFly”
Dir. Parker Mott, Dir. Sebastian Diaz (Toronto, CDN)
World Premiere
14:31 Short Film :: Loosely based on the life of the late Franz Kafka,
Mayfly is a surreal drama about a shamed writer who discovers the idea for his next masterpiece in a twisted, unexpected way.
Tags: Mystery, Kafkaesque, Naked Lunch, The Metamorphosis, Grief, Trauma, Depression
“Things I Don’t Understand”, Dir. David Spaltro (USA)
Canadian Premiere
111:18 Feature Film :: Violet Kubelick, a brilliant young grad student studying near-death experiences, now withdrawn and closed-off after a mysterious, failed suicide attempt. She and her two artist-roommates are forced by financial matters to finally step out of the protective bubble they’ve created for themselves in their Brooklyn loft while Violet herself forms a cathartic relationship with a young, terminally ill girl in a hospice she is interviewing for her thesis and the damaged bartender who lives downstairs.
A story of changing, relationships, love, life and what comes after we die.
- Trailer: http://vimeo.com/27955235
- Web: http://www.tidu-film.com/cast/
Tags: Mental Illness, Terminal Illness, Near Death Experience, Afterlife, Life After Death, Supernatural