24.2.09

A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR - THE CASUARINA COVE - CONTRE-JOUR

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The TEDDY for Best Short Film goes to A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR by Barbara Hammer
Jury statement:
The Teddy Award fort he best short film goes to Barbara Hammer`s A Horse Is Not A Metaphor. An intimate visual essay about her journey to survive ovarian cancer - the film continues her ongoing investigation of the body and sexuality as well as the transformational possibilities of hope and healing within us all.
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TANJONG RHU is a fictional account of a true story. Night falls in Singapore. Men walk cautiously through the forest, they are horny and out prowling for sex. Two young men meet at the beach and converse, and just a few frames later one of them confesses his lifestyle under police interrogation. He had fallen into a police schemed trap in the cruising area along the beautiful bay.In September 1993 twelve men were in fact convicted in similar undercover operations where policemen pretended to be gay men. Some of the accused were incarcerated for several months, and their names, age, and profession were published in the leading national newspapers as a police scare tactic.
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CONTRE-JOUR: “The look with which we view and comprehend the world and how it is cast back at us in response, breaks up into ‘contre-jour’ (back light), into disquieting fragments. Blurs, flashes, and stroboscopemontages disintegrate reality into shadowy images that inflict pain upon the retina. A spotlight precisely cuts the individual out of darkness. ”I wish you could see what I see“ remains a futile hope. Blind spots form a vast gap between self-perception and the perception of others”. (Kristina Tieke) CONTRE-JOUR is, after PLAY and KRISTALL, a further collaboration between artists Christoph Girardet and Matthias Mόller utilising the medium of experimental short film. Both live and work in Germany.

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