Showcasing a wide variety of story and style, the Sundance Film Festival
Short Film Tour is a
94-minute theatrical program of eight short films
from the 2014 edition of the January Festival, which over the course of
its 30-year history has been widely considered the premier showcase for
short films and the launchpad for careers of many now-prominent
independent filmmakers. With both fiction and documentary, the diverse
2014 program ranges from beautiful insight and the struggle to
understand the meaning of life to a hilarious, all-too familiar
government deposition.
Afronauts
It’s July 16, 1969: America
is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of kilometers away, a group
of Zambian exiles are trying to beat America to the moon.
The Cut
The
Cut tells the story of a father and a daughter, whose relationship
fluctuates between proximity and detachment, at the moment of a haircut.
Dawn
Dawn is a quiet young teenager who longs for something or someone to free her from her sheltered life.
I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked
A
man with poor means recreates a lost memory of the last day with his
mom. Objects come to life in a desperate struggle to produce a single
moment that is gone.
I’m a Mitzvah
A young American man spends one last night with his deceased friend while stranded in rural Mexico.
Love. Love. Love.
Every year, through the endless winters, her love takes new shapes and forms.
MeTube: August Sings Carmen “Habanera”
George
Bizet`s “Habanera” from Carmen has been reinterpreted and enhanced with
electronic sounds for MeTube, a homage to thousands of ambitious
YouTube users and video bloggers, and gifted and less gifted
self-promoters on the Internet.
Verbatim
A jaded lawyer wastes
an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee
has ever used a photocopier. All the dialogue in this short comes from
an actual deposition filed with the Supreme Court of Ohio.