Author: matthewtoffolo

YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW, 1min,. Taiwan, AnimationDirected by Chia-Hung KaoOcean plastic pollution is not an abstract issue anymore. On the contrary, it is related to our lives and diets. Single-use plastics that are abandoned by humans often drift into the ocean, decompose themselves into microbeads which sea creatures often mistaken for food, and eventually… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Chia-Hung Kao (YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW)

PLAY/REPEAT, 8min., Estonia, DanceDirected by Carlos E. LesmesThere is a couple. Two bodies. Two beings. 1+1. Sometimes it feels like only one. This film piece wants to explore aspects of a relationship through movement, through the bodies of the performers. The unfathomable distance between two people. Broke but never broken. Get to know the filmmaker:… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Carlos E. Lesmes (PLAY/REPEAT)

LEAP OF FAITH, 28min., AustriaDirected by Joel EggimannA bucket list goal so big that others might think you’re crazy. The stunning journey of Joel Eggimann attempting to do a flip across the gap of a remarkable pinnacle on the Lofoten Islands in Norway. https://instagram.com/joel_eggimann Get to know the filmmaker: 1. What motivated you to make… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Joel Eggimann (LEAP OF FAITH)

THE WORLD OF WITHOOS, 10min., Netherlands, ExperimentalDirected by Hans Withoos, Inge TheunissenTogether with filmmaker Inge Theunissen of Itmoves, I Hans Withoos made a surrealist film about my quest for the amalgamation of the works of our ancestors and our photography. https://hanswithoos.com/https://www.facebook.com/hans.withooshttps://www.instagram.com/hanswithoos/ Get to know the filmmaker: 1. What motivated you to make this film? Working… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Hans Withoos (THE WORLD OF WITHOOS)

THE SNOW MIGRANT, 5min., USA, DanceDirected by Claudia Jeanne EsslingerThe (Snow) Migrant uses humor and metaphor to explore our changing climate. A performer in a red kayak is drawn onto deep snow by a darkly clad figure. Left alone, she struggles with the vessel and imagines paddling away. Eventually she is subsumed in rising waters.… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Claudia Jeanne Esslinger (THE SNOW MIGRANT)

THE UNICORN SYMPOSIUM, 9min., Australia, FashionDirected by Max SimonsonA young woman enters a colourful clothes shop to try on some new looks only to be surprised by a group of friendly strangers who insist that it’s a very special day. https://www.instagram.com/s.xvw/ Get to know the filmmaker: 1. What motivated you to make this film? The… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Max Simonson (THE UNICORN SYMPOSIUM)

NIGHT FALLS, 19min., Belgium, MusicDirected by Stéphane OrlandoVeronika Harcsa is accompanied by the Cave Cantores to embody the inner struggle of a singer living between two worlds, the classical of her illustrious cellist father and the jazz where she sees a possible key to more artistic freedom. Four lines from William Blake’s poem « Night… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Stéphane Orlando (NIGHT FALLS)

1.i, 6min., USA, ExperimentalDirected by Colin James Wade https://www.instagram.com/colinwade0387 Get to know the filmmaker: 1. What motivated you to make this film?I’d thought about and wondered about making a film for a while, starting in the later years of high school. Over time, I was more and more motivated to do so. When I heard… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Colin James Wade (1.i)

THERE ARE BEES IN THE HOUSE, 15min., ThrillerDirected by Morgan SaelensAsa returns to her childhood home and as she begins to settle back into her home life and routine, she suddenly begins to hear the buzzing of bees. She believes the sound to be coming from the walls of the house, and when she decides… Continue reading Interview with Producer Emma & Director Morgan Saelens (THERE ARE BEES IN THE HOUSE)

THE ART OF SEEING, THE ART OF REMEMBERING, 23min., UKDirected by Sascha KlampWorking with two distinct Armenian communities, traditional border villages which hold up the potential resistance from its hostile neighbours, the film explores the set-up of a Community Archive with village Elders whilst juxtaposing how teenagers look at a single polaroid image in the… Continue reading Interview with Filmmaker Sascha Klamp (THE ART OF SEEING, THE ART OF REMEMBERING)