NYFF51: Shorts Program 3
NYFF51: Shorts Programs
October 5 - 11, 2013
Directors Damien Chazelle, Michael Almereyda, Jonathan Romney and Nicolas Saada in person!
A program comprising four short films: Whiplash (Damien Chazelle, 18m), The Man Who Came Out Only At Night (Michael Almereyda, 15m), L’Assenza (Jonathan Romney, 20m), and Aujourd’hui (Nicolas Saada, 8m).
Directors Damien Chazelle, Michael Almereyda, Jonathan Romney and Nicolas Saada in person!
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle | USA | 2013 | 18m
In this wild and intense new film from the director of Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, a young jazz drummer (Johnny Simmons) beats his brains out trying to please his unforgiving conservatory instructor (J.K. Simmons – no relation).
The Man Who Came Out Only At Night
Michael Almereyda | USA | 2013 | 15m
Michael Almereyda’s wry adaptation of Italo Calvino’s folktale, shot in the East Village in black and white, is about a man (James Ransone) who marries the youngest of three sisters (India Kotis), and shares a very strange secret with her on their wedding night.
L’Assenza
Jonathan Romney | UK | 2013 | 20m
A young man (Stephen Mangan) goes to see an Italian movie from the 60s with his wife (Amanda Ryan) and is confronted with a strange apparition: an extra, who appears to be his doppelganger, haunting the edges of the frame.
Aujourd’hui
Nicolas Saada | France | 2012 | 8m
The end of the world as experienced by a young mother (played by Bérenice Béjo from The Artist) in Paris. She finds herself face to face with a silent, menacing prophet played by the great documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman.
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