Shorts that question the emotional and historical significance we attach to locations: from the story of Shell, a young girl trapped in a life by the side of the road, to the UK premiere of Alexandre O Phillipe’s The Spot, an experimental documentary that records the fascination placed on the mark on the Dallas road where JFK
was shot.

Shell
Director: Scott Graham, UK, 2007, 20m
A teenage girl living in a remote petrol station is taken closer than ever to her desire to escape when a salesman stops and offers her a taste of the outside world.
UK Film Council Award for Best of the Festival, LSFF 2008

Benidorm
Director: Carolin Schmitz, Germany, 2006, 20m
The Mediterranean city of Benidorm stands for all-inclusive tourism, permanent sunlight, booze for crash prizes, and for a coast poured in concrete. During the winter its residents are almost exclusively pensioners. Benidorm is a film about age, dignity, and life’s transience.

Between Two Deaths
Director: Wago Kreider, USA, 2006, 7m
A ghost of cinema past living in the present, shot at San Francisco’s Mission Dolores, site of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The famous graveyard scene was meticulously reconstructed. The new imagery was then superimposed with the original to create a haunting work.

The Spot
Director: Alexandre O Phillipe, USA, 2008, 20m
An experimental documentary which observes the strange daily happenings at the location of President Kennedy’s shocking assassination in Dallas, Texas.

Shock Resistant (Resistance Aux Tremblements)
Director: Olivier Hems, France, 2007, 15m
A mysterious old lady dwells in an abandoned apartment block. She lives alone but will simply not leave the place.
Nominated for the Golden Palm, Cannes 2007

(Total Dur. 82m)