Norwegian films at gay and lesbian festival

The three short films are part of three different programmes: ‘The Watch’, a Norwegian-Argentinean co-production, will show as part of ‘Detours and Distractions’, whilst art film ‘Berlinmuren’ will screen as part of ‘Outside to Catch the Action’, and finally ‘Benny's Gym’ will be shown twice as part of ‘The Shape of Things To Come’

‘Detours and Distractions’
Dark, adventurous and edgy short films that linger on the detours and distractions that sometimes define our lives.
Sat 28 March, 4.15pm.  NFT2. To book, click here. 

• ‘The Lonely Lights’. The Color of Lemons. USA 2006. Dir Benjamin M. Piety. 16min.
  Inkblot paintings jog memories of childhood, sexuality, and an enigmatic girl from one boy's past.
• ‘The Watch’. Argentina-Norway 2008. Dir Marco Berger. 15min.
  Time stands still when two football players meet at a bus stop.
• ‘Hirsute’. Canada 2007. Dir A.J. Bond. 14min.
  A scientist is visited by a hairless and arrogant version of himself from the future.
• ‘The Japanese Sandman’. USA 2008. Dir Ed Buhr. 12min.
  William Burroughs spins travel tales and manufactured memories in a letter to Allen Ginsberg.
• ‘The Young and the Evil’. USA 2008. Dir Julian Breece. 15min.
  A troubled teenager sets out to seduce an HIV positive counsellor into giving him the virus.

‘Outside to Catch the Action’
Artists' film and video work co-curated by arts agency Electra.
Thu 2 April. 8.40pm. NFT3. To book, click here.

• ‘Bodies of Society’. Sweden 2006. Dir Klara Liden. 5min.
  A sadomasochistic relationship with a bicycle.
• ‘Ottica Zero’. Sweden 2007. Dir Maja Borg. 13min.
  Strikingly beautiful portrait of a reclusive movie star.
• ‘Can't Swallow it, Can't Spit it Out’. USA 2006. Dir Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn. 26min.
  Whitney Biennial 2008 favourite.
• ‘N.O. Body’. Germany 2008. Dir Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz. 15min.
  N.O. Body questions the identity of the 'freak'.
• ‘Berlinmuren’. Norway 2008. Dir Lars Laumann. 24min.
  An object-sexual woman married to the Berlin Wall.
• ’Metalpleater’. UK 2009. Dir Charlotte Prodger. 8min.
  An object for pleating mountains.
• ‘Nature Demo’. USA 2008. Dir Harry Dodge, Stanya Kahn. 9min.
  Dodge and Kahn simulate a trip into the wild.

‘The Shape of Things To Come’
Hidden feelings and first crushes, this collection of shorts looks at a time in life when things finally start to make sense.
Fri 3 April 2009 18:30 NFT1
Tue 7 April 2009 14:00 NFT2
To book, click here.

• ‘Benny's Gym’. Norway 2008. Dir Marie Gamlem. 25min.
  Alfred is a shy eleven-year-old who is bullied at school. But when one of his tormentors, Benny, asks him for a favour, the two form a close friendship that they must keep quiet.
• ‘Mr A’. USA 2008. Dir Joe Murphy. 12min.
  When a curious teenage boy finds his teacher's profile on a gay dating website, he makes an unexpected move that has some serious consequences.
• ‘Protect Me From What I Want’. UK 2008. Dir Dominic Leclerc. 14min.
  After a brief tryst with the handsome Daz in an underground archway, closeted teenager Saleem questions whether the two should meet again.
• ‘Awakening’. Denmark 2008. Dir Christian Tafdrup. 38min.
  While on a weekend break with his girlfriend and her family, Carsten has an unexpected sexual encounter that forces him to re-evaluate his life. A confident and beautifully filmed study of burgeoning desire and self-discovery.

The Norwegian-Argentinean co-production 'The Watch' will show as part of ‘Detours and Distractions’.