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Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 10 mins | 2012
Clapin followed up his acclaimed short "Skhizein" (2008) with this wordless and unsettlingly ambiguous fable about a boy who encounters a scraggly avian creature while duck hunting with his father. It’s a short whose placid surfaces belie a latent, budding violence.
Up Next in Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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Paulette the Clown
Directed by Johanna Makabi | 2 mins | 2021
Paulette Nardal, Martinique-born pioneer of the Négritude movement, introduces herself and her critique, with a surprise visitor, in this elegantly staged visit to the past. Nardal is played by artist Christelle Oyiri. -
Skhizein
Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 13 mins | 2008
“I am exactly 91cm from myself,” frets Henry, the central figure in this Annecy-and Cannes-awarded account of a life uncentered. After being struck by a meteorite, Henry finds that he must negotiate to the material world—sitting in a chair, opening a win... -
Some December
Directed by Andrew Lampert | 7 mins | 2011
This short by artist, archivist, and curator Lampert captures vivid documentary snippets of Yuletide cheer: the office holiday party, the spirited efforts of amateur ice skaters, a soliloquizing subway Santa—but the underlying subject is performativity, ...
