Retrospective 2014: the twenty-first century American short films

Every year, the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival presents a retrospective about a country. In 2014, you will see several programmes about the twenty-first century American short films.

Light is calling

Far off, a light is calling. A northern light illuminates the screen, the eyes and the minds of those explorers who delve into the underground, perfect the experimental, push back the frontiers of fiction and cover the tracks of cinematic cartography. The American short filmmakers of the last fifteen years come from a tradition that has digested nearly everything that cinema has to offer. And they have fun playing with their heritage, often breaking free of it in order to do it an even greater justice. Who are they? How about Bill Morrison, Jem Cohen, Keith Bearden, Spike Jonze, David Russo… All of whom strive to take an ironic, a controversial, even a poetic look at the “land of the free”. A piece of America. A bravura piece. Galloping furrows the ground, the earth opens up, and suddenly a vein sparkles. A star-spangled banner, a long-term spark. Far off, a light is calling. It floods the horizon’s freedom, waiting for someone to strike out again. A pioneering spirit who will easily stake his claim in the vast expanses of the land of Short Films.

“Welcome home, boys!”

Terminal Bar by Stefan Nadelman (United States, 2002)

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