Regional Festivals: K3 International Short Film Festival

K3 international Short Film Festival

The K3 international Short Film Festival was founded in 2007. Even though the first edition took place only for one night and only in a music club in Carinthia it immediately attracted a big, interested audience. Out of sheer passion for short films it soon became a veritable institution for short film in Austria, attracting numerous filmmakers from all over the world each year. According to the theme “Kommerz und Kunst im Kino” (commerce and art in cinema, from which also derives the name), the K3 festival seeks to go beyond boundaries between genres. Here you can find experimental shorts next to comedies and documentaries, video art is placed next to fiction films. In this way the K3 Festival always puts a lot of effort in the programming of short films in order to develop in each film block a tension curve and to maintain the attention of the audience. In the last years the K3 festival was accompanied by a musical programme representing artists like Bob Ostertag, Hans-Joachim Roedelius all the way to Repetitor and Hans Platzgumer (ex-H.P. Zinker). In 2011 the K3 festival for the first time went beyond geographical borders and also took place in the neighbouring Udine (Italy). In 2012 the next step will be done by establishing Ljubljana as the third location of the festival. With a special aim and a special competition programme for local filmmakers, the K3 festival aims to enforce interchange between genres and between the neighbouring regions.

For further information go to: www.k3festival.com

A selection of the last four years by Fritz Hock, director of K3 Festival

Ultima Thule

Agata Wozniak (HFF Muenchen)
Germany, 2008, HD, 15’

A film about addiction and obedience in front and behind the camera.
K3 Short Film Award 2009

LoopLoop

Patrick Bergeron (Patrick Bergeron)
Canada, 2008, HD, 5’
Links: Movie trailer

A take from a train journey in Hanoi (Vietnam). 1,000 pictures were transformed into a complex panorama that tells a story about remembering, forgetting and the search for points of reference.

Synchronisation

Rimas Sakalauskas (Vilnius Academy of Arts)
Lithuania, 2009, HD, 8’04’’
Links: Movie trailer

Like in a child’s dream, buildings from the Soviet era start leading their own life in a separate reality. Synchronisation has been compiled from free associations and small impossibilities. The slow tempo and spatial soundtrack give the film a compelling atmosphere and inner logic. Buildings of the Soviet era make the scenes monumental and suggestive.

7:35 de la mañana / 7:35 in the morning

Nacho Vigalondo (Ibarretxe & Co.)
Spain, 2003, HD, 8’
Links: Movie trailer

One morning a woman notices something strange at the café where she has breakfast every morning: all of the other customers and even the waiters are in total silence. They all look down. Nobody touches his/her breakfast. All of a sudden, a song can be heard.

A serviço do Homem / At the service of Man

Iuri Bastos (Ruído Filmes)
Brasil, 2010, HD, 11’1’’

A man looks for a well-paid job. As strange as the job is, he won’t give it up. But until what point is he winning or losing? In the system we live in, work has become fundamental for our survival, and many times the instrument of alienation and dehumanisation.
K3 Short Film Award 2010

La gran carrera / The Big Race

Kote Camacho (Txintxua Filmes)
Spain, 2010, HD, 6'57"
Links: Movie trailer

In the year of 1914. The Lasarte racetrack announces a race with an extraordinary prize for the winning horse. Eight of the best horses and mares in the world have been registered. Heavy betters and fans from all continents gather to participate in the great event: the Half Million Grand Prize.

Prometheus/Odysseus

Cornelius Onitsch (achsenfilm)
Germany, 2008, HD, 5’57’’
Links: Movie trailer

Every Day an eagle eats Prometheus' liver to have it grown back again the day after.
Odysseus is bond to the pole by his deaf comrade to resist the sirens' allurement.

Phone Tapping

HeeWon Lee (Le Fresnoy studio National des arts contemporains)
France, 2009, HD, 10'20"
Links: Movie trailer

The film is built up from that single, imperceptible instant that signals the shift from day to night, a fleeting moment in which what was, is no more, where things might acquire fresh significance. A voiceover guides us through the city, while the camera seems to be searching for a specific plot of land, for the coincidence between the narrative and the visual.
K3 Short Film Award 2011