Asherah's Colors - Review
Can an encounter be so important to change the course of a life?
The director Gary Mazeffa thinks so, and proves it to us with the tender Asherah's Colors, a short film where romance, light-heartedness and art find a home.
Raphael and Aherah - played beautifully by Connor Tuohy and Shira Behore - are two young people who meet, enjoy their time together and try to enter each other's world.
A world where love dictates the rules of the game and the colors and emotions speak through the magnificent paintings of the talented artist Hessam Abrishami, who star in the role of himself.
A film that flows quickly like summer loves but remains imprinted like the real ones.
EP\2 - REVIEW
Be careful how you judge others… one day you may have to judge yourself
Between comedy and horror. EP\2, written and directed by Nathan Alan Thomas, is adrenaline and madness.
What seems to start out as a sketch about braggarts with little desire to work, turns beautifully into a suspenseful thriller.
Kyle (Kyle Gregory) judges the films he receives at the Festival he works for; the Hossfest Director, (Luke St. Germain) seems intent only on making money by mocking the dreams of filmmakers without caring of the effort, passion and hope that lie behind each entry.
However, an email surprises them.
The director EP (Paolo Ricci) demands attention, because his film must be seen carefully, without cheating, until the end...
But who is EP ? A filmmaker? An avenger? ... a psycho?
From a simple judge of a film festival, Kyle will soon find himself trapped in a cruel script where it seems very difficult to find a way out.
Expertly edited EP\2 is a film within a film, a sadistic game, a hunt for the guilty, with a fast-paced pace and colorful video game atmospheres.
The metal music of Swampgrave is splendid, the notes of Asylum by Cody Martin are disturbing and hypnotic, and the alienating and incisive Blunt Smoke Interlude by Bonginator is absolutely perfect,with the neon lights.
After all, Cinema is a matter of life and death… sometimes.
HOLY B3 - REVIEW
Artificial intelligence takes over everyday life, emotions are digitalized.
Without any doubt this is the key point of Holy B3, short film brilliantly directed by the award-winning independent Italian filmmakers Claudio D´Attis & Roberto Basile.
Futuristic and visionary, the film explores in a modern way how technology has become the new guardian and master of our lives; the one who watches over us, who leads us and governs us.
We depend on technology as if it were our new prayer, and we turn to it as a source of salvation.
Between digital frames and beautiful and very well edited clips from the past, everything if focused on the emphasized expressiveness of the protagonists, and on the close-ups of their faces: a solitary nurse (Comasia Castellana) , the pastor Haase (Alexander Hoymann), the robot (Roberto Basile) and four modern evangelists (Franco D'Attis, Karin Herbort, Daniela D'Attis, Michele Nappo).
A film that makes people think - even smile - and asks many questions... but "there are questions that cannot be answered..."
We 're in the hands of the Lord, oand at the same time in the clutches of technology... maybe they're both the same entity.
ANIMA - REVIEW
Where do we end up when our earthly life ends? Are we really finished? Or do we find ourselves catapulted into an unknown dimension where only the dead can see and hear us?
Anima written, directed and starring Pat Pascale is a short film that explores the greatest curiosity of the human being: life after death, the passage, the after.
Romano (Pat Pascale) is a young man who, tired of having to live with an illness, commits suicide and finds himself exactly in the world he lived in... but in black and white, suspended in this dimension of uncertainty, immobility and bewilderment.
In this new existence he will meet Dennis (Berk Karabay) the one who calmly and carefree will lead him to the discovery and difficult acceptance of his new state, teaching him to say goodbye to the past and to detach himself from everything that was earthly, including his girlfriend Natalia (Elisa Krasniqi) who finds herself facing her pain alone... in color.
A delicately directed short film that deals with the most complicated of enigmas with great simplicity. Good Job!