SHORTMETRAJE: Short Films by Spanish Filmmakers

SHORTMETRAJE, a touring short film program, celebrates a provocative and vivid generation of filmmakers who have emerged with a unique perspective on modern Spain and its changing cultural landscape. They are a group set apart by their willingness to boldly push the limits of their country's cinematic traditions.

program (80 min.):

ECOSYSTEM (Ecosistema)
by Tinieblas González (2003, 9 min.): A fly, a spider, a rabbit and a girl are the characters from an urban ecosystem, ruled by the same law that rules in any natural ecosystem: the strong beat the weak.

THE BRAVE LITTLE GIRL (La Valiente)
by Isabel Ayguavives (2003, 6 min.): A little girl shuts her eyes and tries not to think about anything for ten seconds.

WITH WHAT SHALL I WASH IT? (¿Con qué la lavaré?)
by María Trenor (2003, 11 min.): Daybreak in the red-light district of a Spanish town. Someone who earns their living on the streets makes their way home, sits down, and begins to remove their make-up. A celluloid tribute to the homosexual artistes of the late 1970s, just after Franco’s dictatorship.

7.35 IN THE MORNING (7:35 de la manana)
by Ignacio Vigalondo (2003, 9 min.): Nominated to the Oscar® Academy Awards and winner of the Youth Prize at Clemont Ferrand Short Film Festival, 7:35 in the morning follows a girl as she goes to a bar to get breakfast. Everyone is quiet. Nobody is talking. Something strange is in the air…

DISPOSABLE (Usar Y Tirar)
by Daniel García-Pablos (2003, 10 min.): Madrid. A workday. The paths of a Cuban athlete, a woman driving, and an immigrant selling disposable tissues cross at a traffic light.

PHYSICS II (Fisica II)
by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (2004, 20min.): September, Physics II examination, the end of secondary school. Three questions to pass. Three questions to repeat a year. Jorge lives in a room without a window, without light, without air, without a way out and with little hope. His father, Andrés, is the doorman of the building. He is about to retire and wants him to keep the job. Jorge does not want to work as a doorman, he wants to go to university…

10 MINUTES (10 minutos)
by Alberto Ruiz Rojo (2003, 15 min.): “I can´t provide you with that information. – Why not? – Because It´s unavailable.” The ever-Intuitive Ruiz Rojo and Gustavo Salmeron pull us into this impossible story, recognized with the Goya Spanish Academy Awards 2005.

For more information about the program, the directors, and the tour visit www.shortmetraje.com.