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CAAMFest 2014

SHORTS

The films that make up the festival’s Shorts Program are vast and varied, making up what they lack in length with tremendous talent and limitless imagination. This year’s program converges the fantastical worlds of genre films with the equally unbelievable realities of global injustice and illuminates the joys and heartbreaks inherent in familial relationships, romantic love and being an outcast. Diverse and plentiful, there is bound to be a short for everyone.

  1. A+

    SHORTS / Canada / 2012 / 6 mins
    In this collection of experimental and documentary works, cityscapes, rainy days, video diaries and cinema itself are the starting points for adventurous inquiries into the acts of image-making. By repositioning the frame and repurposing the archive, linkages between memory, politics and the image are proposed and unsettled.

  2. Bai Xie (Snow White)

    Ian Burris / SHORTS / China / 2013 / Documentary, Short / 9 mins
    From drag queens and music videos to glittery genderqueers, homegrown feminist heroes and Beat era artists, these Local Queer Shorts are exciting, vibrant and alive!

  3. The Banquet of the Concubine

    SHORTS / Canada / 2013 / 13 mins
    From the adorably delectable to the grim and gritty, this collection of Canadian animation is a vast array of imaginative films, some a far cry from your childhood Saturday morning cartoons. These creative media makers bring to life visual tales that are altogether whimsical, unique and surprisingly truthful.

  4. Big Trees

    SHORTS / Canada / 2013 / 13 mins
    From the adorably delectable to the grim and gritty, this collection of Canadian animation is a vast array of imaginative films, some a far cry from your childhood Saturday morning cartoons. These creative media makers bring to life visual tales that are altogether whimsical, unique and surprisingly truthful.

  5. The Bridge Chronicles

    SHORTS / Canada / 2013 / 4 mins
    From the adorably delectable to the grim and gritty, this collection of Canadian animation is a vast array of imaginative films, some a far cry from your childhood Saturday morning cartoons. These creative media makers bring to life visual tales that are altogether whimsical, unique and surprisingly truthful.

  6. Burn to Send

    SHORTS / Vietnam / 2013 / Short / 20 mins
    Whether fantastic or mundane, love can manifest itself in the oddest ways. Then again, it may not show up at all. From Coney Island to Vietnam, these films capture the ups and downs of romance in the modern age.

  7. Butterfly

    Shasha Nakhai / SHORTS / Canada / Short / 6 mins
    A call to action: From revolutionary Filipinas to undocumented youth, Chinese lesbians and Japanese internment camp survivors, these films shed light on the need for Global Social Justice.

  8. Choose Wisely

    SHORTS / USA / 2013 / Narrative / 5 mins
    Whether fantastic or mundane, love can manifest itself in the oddest ways. Then again, it may not show up at all. From Coney Island to Vietnam, these films capture the ups and downs of romance in the modern age.

  9. Clouds, Rain

    SHORTS / Experimental / 6 mins
    In this collection of experimental and documentary works, cityscapes, rainy days, video diaries and cinema itself are the starting points for adventurous inquiries into the acts of image-making. By repositioning the frame and repurposing the archive, linkages between memory, politics and the image are proposed and unsettled.

  10. Crime: The Animated Series

    SHORTS / Canada / 2013 / 20 mins
    From the adorably delectable to the grim and gritty, this collection of Canadian animation is a vast array of imaginative films, some a far cry from your childhood Saturday morning cartoons. These creative media makers bring to life visual tales that are altogether whimsical, unique and surprisingly truthful.