OnCurating Issue 23: The Future of Short Film

OnCurating Issue 23: The Future of Short Film This edition of OnCurating is based on the panel The Future of Short Film , which was held at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. The former artistic director Reto B hler invited Lars Henrik Gass (Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen), Maike Mia H hne (Berlinale Shorts), Peter van Hoof (International Film Festival Rotterdam), Jukka-Pekka Laakso (Tampere Film Festival) and Laurence Reymond (Quinzaine des R alisatuers Cannes) to present a short film not longer than 10 minutes and to talk about the future of short films from an artistic point of view and not from a technical one, knowing that this often cannot be separated. This discussion was now followed up by John Canciani, recently appointed artistic director in Winterthur. The contributors where again involved into the question about the future, the hybridism of short films and curatorial approaches. However, delving deeper into this questions, it turns out that it is not at all an easy task and it can be a strange momentum confronted with the question about the future. As a film programmer, specially when it comes to the competitions, one doesn't have a formula for filmmakers and artists but surely an attitude. The opinions and visions on film and art is a necessary one and must be continued.