WF Online Series 2022
Focus on the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen with Hilke Doering
21 - 28 October 2022
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is the oldest short film festival in the world founded in 1954. At the beginning, they focused on eastern films and video art. Today, the festival selects all genre of short films, moving images presented as single channels. The festival has competitive and curated programs (archival, distribution programs and special focuses).
Hilke Doering, Head of the International Competition, the Children's and Youth Cinema and the Market of the International Short Film Festival has been working for the festival for more than 20 years. We have made wonderful film discoveries attending some of the live and online screenings at Oberhausen.
We have invited Hilke Doering for this special focus to chat with Chantal Molleur about her work at the festival. The audio exchange will be available at the beginning of the week long screening on October 20th. Hilke has also given us a selection of five films that marked her viewing over the years. We are delighted to present them as well.
The Lawes of the Marches
by Katie Davies
UK, 2014, 16 min 33, English
A depiction of the ancient border tradition of the Common Ridings all along the border of England and Scotland. These ridings are about marking and commemorating the past with as much relevance today as when they began in 1500.
A Million Miles Away
by Jennifer Reeder
USA, 2014, 27 min 59, English
An adult woman on the edge of failing and a pack of teenage girls simultaneously experience a supernatural version of coming-of-age. The transformation is equal parts tense and tender. It unravels to the beat of a 1980s era heavy metal anthem rearranged as a lamentation.
{if your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves
by Lucy Davis
Singapore/Finland, 2021, 27 min 57, Malay, Tamil, Chinese, English with English subtitles
One of Singapore’s oldest public housing estates runs alongside a former-railway track, property of the Malaysian state until 2011. For 50 years this 10-m-wide zone of indeterminate governance ran through the heart of the city-state, hosting a fecundity of more-than-human activities. One hundred five bird species exist in this patch. Now the land is being repurposed, iconic housing blocks demolished and residents relocated.
489 Years
by Hayoun Kwon
France, 2016, 11 min 18, Korean with English subtitles
The film is transcribed according to the testimony of a former soldier in South Korea, Kim. It gives us access to the demilitarised zone and immerses us into the heart of the personal memory of a soldier who tells us about his experience in a reconnaissance mission.
Epistrofi stin odo Aiolou (Return to Aeolus Street)
by Maria Kourkouta
Greece/France, 2013, 14 min 28, Greek with English subtitles
Fragments – reworked, slowed down, put in loops – of Greek popular movies of the 50s and 60s, accompanied by poetry and Manos Hadjidakis’ piano. A found-footage audiovisual collage journeys into modern Greece and central Athens.
WF Online series second edition include four curated screening programs each giving a curatorial focus featuring Basel, Swiss and international productions. Each program is available for one week.
November: Circling the garden (in collaboration with Treibsand
and the exhibition: The Other Kabul. Remains of the Garden)
This project is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Mary & Ewald E. Bertschmann-Stiftung and the Division of Cultural Affairs Basel-Stadt.