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Monday 3rd of February 2020 at 12.30pm. Speaker: Jonas Pariente, producer and Kickstarter representative in France. A video directed by the students of the ARFIS École from Villeurbanne (France).

Online platforms and short films : which kind of exposure for which audience? An overview of the European online distribution landscape by presenting EUROVOD the association of European Video on Demand platforms specialised in art-house, independent and European cinema. In the last decade, the audiovisual landscape saw its distribution and business model challenged by the digital shift and the rising of new players in […]

  Interview with Thomas Trichet, director of Le taxi de Sun City [The Sun City Taxi] How did you come up with the main character’s repressed desires? Did you do research into psychological disturbances? The obsessing and ruminating of Charles, the main character, is based on a mental illness called the “phobia of committing impulsive acts”, which is a fear of giving in to […]

  Interview with Alice Seabright, director of End-O The issue of endometriosis is finally getting some media attention. Is the medical world still behind? Hopefully the medical world is catching up. There are certainly good people doing good work, but it can’t hurt to remind them of the issue! What motivated you to treat it from a light-hearted, comical angle? I find humour to […]

  Interview with Yves Gellie, director of L’année du robot [Year of the Robot] L’année du robot touches upon the relationship between humans and robotics including their introduction into the field of caregiving.  Why did you embrace this theme? It’s a long story that began in 2007 when I started a photography project around research areas and researchers’ tools. The ‘laboratory’ as a space […]

  Interview with Clémentine Carrié, director of Poussière [Dust] Can you explain your choice of title? This short film tells the story of a breakup, and more specifically the story of mourning for a romantic relationship. The title Dust evokes both the act itself of tearing up – the fact of “biting the dust” and “turning to dust” – and what is left afterwards […]

  Interview with Valerie Barnhart, director of Girl in the Hallway How did this retelling come about? I’m a big poetry fan, and I came across Jamie DeWolf’s live spoken word performance on YouTube. I just knew this had to be a movie – problem was I didn’t know how to make a movie or animate for that matter. So I reached out to […]

  Interview with Enrique Buleo, director of El infierno y tal [Hell and Such] Why did you want to picture a rural environment? I come from a small village in La Mancha so setting my stories in rural environments is natural for me. Although I’ve been living in a city for the last fifteen years, I spent my childhood and adolescence in a rural environment […]

  Interview with Sam Azulys, director of My Little China Girl Can you tell us about how you chose the title of your film? The title isn’t meant literally. It comes from the David Bowie song “China Girl”. My film, just like the song, plays with racial stereotypes in order to deconstruct them. When the other is different from us, we often image it […]

  Interview with Paul Howard Allen, director of Mega Sexy Robot Dinosaur How much do you enjoy artistic experiments? Cinema audiences these days are incredibly smart and cinema literate so it’s really fun to be mischievous and play with people’s expectations. This is the beauty of short film, it allows you to explore your weirdest ideas without having to satisfy a commercial agenda. Why […]