ND/NF Shorts Program 2
Featuring Agustina Comedi’s Playback, Steffen Goldkamp’s After Two Hours, Ten Minutes Had Passed, Simon Liu’s Happy Valley, Arda Çiltepe’s Black Sun, and Keisha Rae Witherspoon’s T.
ND/NF Shorts Program 2 screens virtually nationwide from 12/9 to 12/21. Get tickets here.
Playback
Agustina Comedi, Argentina, 2019, 14m
Spanish with English subtitles
This fiction-documentary hybrid is a tenderly crafted love letter to a group of Argentine drag queens and trans women as they lose their community to AIDS against the backdrop of an oppressive regime.
After Two Hours, Ten Minutes Had Passed
Steffen Goldkamp, Germany, 2019, 19m
German with English subtitles
Anonymous male inmates go about their daily routines in Germany’s Hahnöfersand juvenile detention center. Questions of time, identity, and the realities of space convene in this quietly devastating documentary from Steffen Goldkamp, who captures a simultaneous sense of inertia and restless longing as it permeates the prison.
Happy Valley
Simon Liu, Hong Kong/USA, 2020, 13m
In Hong Kong, echoes of resistance and turmoil are sensitively captured on 16mm in this poetic rumination of public spaces and everyday life in a metropolis in upheaval.
Black Sun
Arda Çiltepe, Turkey/Germany, 2019, 20m
Turkish with English subtitles
A death in the family occasions a man’s return to an Aegean Turkish island, where an impending storm puts his trip on a circuitous route. Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s Pardino d’Oro for Best International Short Film, Arda Ciltepe’s Black Sun is a laconic, 16mm-shot road movie where fleeting encounters and the indefinite hold of grief take shape in vivid sensory detail.
T
Keisha Rae Witherspoon, USA, 2019, 14m
Keisha Rae Witherspoon’s sui generis quasi-fiction follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, a fabricated event where community members honor their dead by modeling wildly imaginative R.I.P. t-shirts. Combining elements of Afrofuturism and cinéma vérité, T is a powerful examination of mourning through the seen and unseen forces that influence our will to live. Berlinale Golden Bear Winner for Best Short Film.
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