Cutting the Edge @
Miami International Film Festival 2009
New Cutting the Edge Section at the Miami International Film Festival 2009
Tiziana finzi, festival director
Juan Carlos Zaldívar, coordinator
Cutting the Edge
Our newest category is an exciting observation of audio-visual experimentation, surpassing “cutting edge” notions. In its first edition this program showcases provocative and sometimes extreme works that stand at the crossroads o video installations, boldly intersecting with other art disciplines.
Click on film title for film details and long synopsis
Beket
(Italy,80 min.)
Director: Davide M
anuli
Cast: Luciano Curreli, Jerome Duranteau, Fabrizio Gifuni, Roberto "Freak" Antoni, Paolo Rossi, Simone Maludrottu, Simona Caramelli
Loosely based on Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot, Beket takes place in a no man's land outside of time when mankind no longer inhabits the planet. Freak and Jaja meet at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere where a bus arrives but doesn't stop. FIPRESCI award, Locarno Film Festival.
Demystify - A Trilogy
(Italy,43 min.)
Cast:
What would happen if Hittler met Gandhi, Coco Channel met Joan of Arc and Che Guevara met Garibaldi?
Hunger
(UK/Ireland,96 min.)
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon,
Winner of the 2008 Camera d'Or at Cannes for Best First Feature, Hunger is a powerful drama focusing on the infamous six-week hunger strike that IRA prisoners, led by Bobby Sands in the early 1980s, used as a way of publicizing their demands to be recognized as political prisoners.
On War (De La Guerre)
(France,130 min.)
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Asia Argento, Guillaume Depardieu, Clotilde Hesme
A hypnotic rumination on life, liberty and man's relationship to nature, On War unfolds mostly at The Kingdom, a mysterious mansion in the countryside where the inhabitants investigate what is required to experience true unfiltered spiritual, mental, and physical pleasure. Mathieu Amalric and Asia Argento deliver tour de force performances.
SHALLOW
(USA,85 min.)
Cast:
A multimedia work, the musical paintings (Shallow 1-21) are a series of original musical 'cut-ups' composed by Malcolm McLaren and set to appropriated film clips of ordinary people who are about to have sex. Malcolm McLaren is represented by the Schcibler Mitte Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
Universalove
(Austria/Luxemburg/Serbia,83 min.)
Cast: Magda Gomes, Erom Cordeiro, Anica Dobra, Dušan Aškovi?,
Kyoichi Komoto, Makiko Kawai, Liza Machover, Samir "RPZ" Menouar,
Rachel Dorfman, Dan Burkarth, Daniel Plier, Sascha Migge
Composed from an assortment of images and set to a haunting soundtrack by Austrian indie band Naked Lunch, Universalove is a new type of music film. Similar to cinematic mood pieces such as Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi, it weaves together collectively understood images for a symphony that traverses all languages, cultures and orientations.
Where is Where?
(Finland,35 min.)
Cast: Kati Outinen, Tommi Korpela, Leea Klemola, Alaeddin Alaeddine, Taha Muhammad Rguibi
This 4-image split screen film is a meditation on violence and hate. A writer, death and two small children who kill a friend, are among the characters who try to contextualize a larger historical event about the massacre of an Albanian village in France.
CUTTING THE EDGE PROGRAM 1
The following is a program of shorts.
Film Name
Running Time (min)
fawn by Jennifer Lane
5 (min)
Grand Prix by Stephen Dean
7 (min)
Paper Collection by Shannon Plumb
19 (min)
Public Solitude (Solidão Pública) by Daniel Aragão
15 (min)
Together by Shannon Plumb
24 (min)
Total Running Time: 70 min.
CUTTING THE EDGE PROGRAM 2
The following is a program of shorts.
Film Name
Running Time (min)
Aka Ana by Antoine d’Agata
60 (min)
Anorexia. Story of an Image (Anorexia. Storia Di Un'Immagine) by Leandro Manuel Emede
25 (min)
Beijing Sky by Olivo Barbieri
15 (min)
Glima by MASBEDO
19 (min)
Total Running Time: 119 min.
CUTTING THE EDGE PROGRAM 3
The following is a program of shorts.
Film Name
Running Time (min)
Loudly, death unites by Shiela and Nicholas Pye
11 (min)
Meeting Vincent Gallo by Julien Hallard
41 (min)
Plan Iode by Alain Declercq and Jeanne Susplugas
30 (min)
Saltos by Gregorio Graziosi
8 (min)
Earring, The by Shiela and Nicholas Pye
9 (min)
Vols (Flights) by Veaceslav Druta
2 (min)
Total Running Time: 101 min.
CUTTING THE EDGE PROGRAM 4
The following is a program of shorts.
Film Name
Running Time (min)
18 Beautiful Women by Lina Bertucci
6 (min)
Magnetic Space, A by Pierre Coulibeuf
15 (min)
2 (min)
Zoo by Sala Tykka
12 (min)
Zoo by Richard Billingham
40 (min)
Total Running Time: 75 min.
