The Wake

Four of the first six short films screened at the festival have smoking in them. My film, A Living Contradiction, is the fifth being screened. The camera’s subject matter is a runner. I knew I should’ve had the runner smoke. Fuck.

I am going to predict the outcome of the film festival. The judge’s selection for best short film will be Liška. This film festival was no contest. Liška had plenty of room for improvement [to the filmmaker: The pauses at the end of the film were poorly placed and too frequent. The cigarette falling from the girl's mouth fell all wrong. Do this shot over. The acting by the filmmakers on the bus ride was atrocious] but no other film was composed well enough to compare.

I couldn’t force myself to sit through the long films. I watched one and convinced myself that watching these films was ruining my cinematic brain. Also, I won’t be making any reliable predictions for the audience’s favorite film since it’s dependent on how many persons each filmmaker can bring to see his or her film. I hadn’t a chance to survey the audience much during the films but perhaps the film with the largest number of actors will win (Equinox?)

Ideally, the next student film festival will have hundreds of entries instead of a handful. Perhaps then the University can opt to have a festival of some merit.

The awards presentation is tonight at 7PM at Coffman Union Theatre. I will update this entry with the winners afterwards.

Winners
Short Film, Judge’s Choice: Liška
Short Film, Audience’s Choice: Li
Long Film, Judge’s Choice: Hearing Murmurs
Long Film, Audience’s Choice: Off Campus