Representing 9/11: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s short film in 11'09"01: September 11 by Marie-Christine CLEMENTE

“…Ungraspable by essence, the viewing of Iñarritu’s short film can be likened to a traumatic experience, which Cathy Caruth defines as ‘an event that … is experienced too soon, too unexpectedly, to be fully known and is therefore not available to consciousness until it imposes itself again, repeatedly, in the nightmares and repetitive actions of the survivor’ – the flashes of the ‘jumpers’ that pervade the short film bearing undeniable similarities to the return of the trauma.The paper shows how Iñárritu’s short film attempts to represent the unrepresentable dimension of 9/11. …”
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A FIRST COMPOSITIONAL ATTEMPT INTO THE WORLD OF SILENT SHORT FILMS – SANCTUARY BY NELIO COSTA (WITH MUSIC BY ŞERBAN MARCU) by Şerban MARCU

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Boulevard Saint-Laurent, la Main de Montréal et son Opéra numérique surréaliste en trois actes. Une histoire d’exposition by Sylvie Durand

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Protocole d’errance d’une forme by Francesca Cozzolino, Coralie Maurin, Kristina Solomoukha

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Magíster: un cine al servicio de Dios y de la patria by Jorge Moreno Andrés

“…Its body of work constitute the first filmic products exposing religious education with pedagogical aims to be found in the country. Its short films constitute a direct translation of the catechism into a visual discourse. …”
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The Director–Composer Duo: Polanski & Komeda’s Deconstruction of Film Music Conventions in Horror Cinema. "Fearless Vampire Killers" (1967) and "Rosemary’s Baby" (1968) by Piotr Pomostowski

“…A key issue in this context, and one that applies to both of the analyzed films, is the technique of leitmotifs which Polanski and Komeda developed already in their first short films. In Fearless Vampire Killers and Rosemary’s Baby, the jointly developed director-composer method evolved greatly, and Polanski’s collaboration with Komeda took on a very distinctive style, which the author of this article attempts to describe and define.…”
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Dwaj ludzie z lustrem. Metafory fotografii i fotograficzne motywy w etiudach Romana Polańskiego by Magdalena Szczypiorska-Chrzanowska

“…This paper attempts to explore the photographic metaphors (Bernd Stiegler’s categories) and motifs drawing on photographic techniques and practices in three short films directed by Roman Polanski while still a student (Two Men and a Wardrobe, Teeth Smile, Murder). …”
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The use of authentic video in Russian as foreign language teaching on A1 level by Natalija A. Gridneva, Svetlana M. Vladimirova

“…Some possibilities of authentic videos usage at the initial training stage are exemplified by short films from popular Russian sketch comedies (particularly “Yeralash” and “Fitil”), which, as the authors show, have a variety of advantages over other kinds of materials. …”
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Weaving Archives. Riusare, reinventare e riprogettare i dati tessili by Margherita Tufarelli, Paolo Franzo

“…The project envisaged three main phases of implementation: (1) the elaboration of a digitisation procedure which, through the creation of a digital twin, would make it possible to reconstruct the fundamental characteristics of the selected textile materials, so as to convey their qualities on a digital support; (2) the use of the models obtained for the design of transmedia content; (3) the adaptation of this content to the development of audiovisual products, such as short films, films and animation, aimed at textile education. …”
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“When I finished my film, I realized that people really needed me there”: the transformative power of Collaborative Filmmaking by Jessica G. Burke, Annika Agarwal, Mihaja Raonivololona, Tahiry Anjarasoa, Laura Leeson, Sara Baumann

“…Abstract Collaborative Filmmaking (CF) is a relatively new, participatory, visual research method in which participants are trained in digital filmmaking to collect and analyze their own data in the form of creative short films and to disseminate their findings through film screenings and discussions. …”
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Storytelling as a Tool for Activist Public Relations: A Qualitative Study in Case of Women by Aytuğ Mermer Üzümlü, Beris Artan Özoran

“…The short film tells in an emotional tone, from the mouth of a rabbit, what happened to him during cosmetic experiments. …”
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Du placement de produit à l’artistisation par réaction inverse. Analyse socio-sémiotique du film Logorama by Julien Péquignot

“…Starting from Logorama, an animated short film entirely made out of logos, the paper investigates induced meaning productions. …”
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La Patinoire de Jean-Philippe Toussaint au miroir de La ricotta de Pier Paolo Pasolini : convergences divergentes dans une chambre d’échos by Margareth Amatulli

“…A catoptric anamorphosis connects the two cinematic works, and the contrasting dialectic that drives the Pasolinian short film allows for a deeper reading of Toussaint’s film. …”
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Extractive Geographies in Sponsored Media: Colombia’s Large-Scale Coal Mining in the 1980s by María A. Vélez-Serna

“…The analysis of a varied corpus of educational television, magazine photography, and a short film made by Exxon shows how an extractive enterprise sought to present its impacts as contained and justified. …”
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Gone With the Covid – Scarlet in Quarantine: An Interview with Sarah Combs by Sarah Combs, Emmeline Gros

“…As a family Covid-19 quarantine project, Combs recently created a short film, Gone With the Covid, a spoof of the classic film, Gone With the Wind. …”
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L’univers sonore de Sredni Vashtar (Andrew Birkin, 1981) by Sophie Mantrant

“…In 1981, Andrew Birkin was awarded the BAFTA for Best Short Film for his adaptation of Saki’s ‘Sredni Vashtar’ (1911). …”
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The Forgotten : tentative de réappropriation aborigène de l’histoire australienne by Virginie BERNARD

“…I propose to illustrate their efforts through a study of The Forgotten, an Aboriginal short film dedicated to the recognition of the Aboriginal soldiers who fought for Australia, only to be forgotten.…”
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Following Brodsky. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Apocrypha by Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak

“…The article presents the study of the short film Apocrypha by Andrei Zvyagintsev. The text is aimed at the interpretation of the movie in the context of the problem of memory, which is emphasised in the selected work in the explicit and implicit visual associations with the figure and poetry of Iosif Brodsky. …”
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Persephone by Laure-Hélène ANTHONY-GERROLDT

“…It is also part of a wider artistic project that includes paintings, photographs, a short film and other creations, which all work as so many reverberations and refractions of the poems themselves.The project was partly inspired by H.D.’s poem “Eurydice,” a piece that really made me want to work with myth and to give a voice to women whose perspective is rarely portrayed in literature. …”
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Empowered Resistance by Shandon C. Klein

“…The paper will then explore Diatta’s use of both ethics based on an analysis of an African short film, À La Recherche Aline. Diatta’s embodiment of an ethic of resistance and an ethic of control within modern reenactments of her story depict her rebellion against colonialism as empowered by the awasena path and its theology. …”
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