Slovak shorts at Oberhausen 2018

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (May 3 – 8, 2018), one of the world's most respected short film events, will present a programme of six Slovak archive shorts entitled Traces of Experiment in Slovak Short Film.

Since 2013, the prestigious festival shifted its focus also towards archive films as well. Carefully selected archives can present their projects and programs in order to draw closer attention to the often neglected subject of archiving and restoring experimental films. Slovak Film Institute will present during the 64. edition of the festival its selection Traces of Experiment in Slovak Short Film, that has been compiled as one of the curatorial concepts for presentation of films from the 1960s. The „Golden Era“ is known due to its rather relaxed political interference and bureaucratic control of filmmaking in nationalized Czechoslovak film industry.

Selected films deal with social and political engagement of their authors and already show seeping of external influences into the formal structure of their artistic expression, redefining their auteur signatures. The festival will present experimental tendencies in Water and Work by Martin Slivka, Old Shatterhand Came to See Us by Dušan Hanák, Photographing the House Dwellers by Dušan Trančík, animation Eye by Juraj Bindzár, Lili Marlen by Peter Mihálik and The Red Cross Drummer by Juraj Jakubisko.

Films presented in the programme (listed chronologically):
Water and Work (d. Martin Slivka, 9 min., 1963)
Old Shatterhand Came to See Us (d. Dušan Hanák, 12 min., 1966)
Photographing the House Dwellers (d. Dušan Trančík, 16 min., 1968)
Eye (d. Juraj Bindzár, 6 min., 1968) Lili Marlen (d. Peter Mihálik, 5 min., 1970)
The Red Cross Drummer (d. Juraj Jakubisko, 13 min., 1977)

Screening
MAY 6 / SUN / 12:30 / Lichtburg Filmpalast Gloria

Web:
https://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/

published: 02.05.2018
updated: 02.05.2018