XI edition
The Music Video International Competition will take place also in this year’s edition of the Short Film Festival, where music videos made by students from universities and film schools all over the world will be presented. Our goal is to celebrate the community of film directors who dedicate their art to music. A jury of professionals appointed by curator Giovanni Bedeschi will present a selection of the finalist videos to be screened during the Festival, making their vision — usually an individual experience enjoyable on the small TV screen — a collective experience.
Pinchazo – Prick (4’06”, Costa Rica)
DIRECTOR: Javier Guerrero – Miguel Noboa
INSTITUTE: Universidad de Costa Rica
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: Somewhere in a dystopian future, there is a revolution for no reason at all. Prick is a music video for the Panamanian songwriter Carlos Mendez, strongly inspired by Kant’s quote: “The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason”.
PROFILE: Javier Guerrero & Miguel Noboa studied mass communication and audiovisual production at the University of Costa Rica. They have worked together in different kinds of videoclips, short filmsand even feature films. Always trying to push their limits.
Doyle x Wauro – A.M.I.A. (3’, Argentina)
DIRECTOR: Matyas Doyle – Wauro
INSTITUTE: UNICEN Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: Satire to governments of the 90’s and institutional violence, which is timeless.
PROFILE: Alternative trap music duo from the city of Tandil, Buenos Aires. Completely independent and self-managed, with a strong imprint of cultural references in their lyrics. Composed by Matías Domínguez (Matyas Doyle) and Mauro Costantino (Wauro) both audiovisual producers, they give great importance to visual aesthetics in general, which coincides with the musical part of the project hand by hand.
The Silver Kingdom (3’45”, South Africa)
DIRECTOR: Christopher de Villiers
INSTITUTE: University of Stellenbosch
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: In a sleepy village, a girl wakes up on the day of her sixteenth birthday without any knowledge of who she is, where she is, or why she is. She only knows that she is stronger and faster than most. She is fierce and she is fearless. She is unlike anyone else in the kingdom. Who is Caitlin Wilde?
PROFILE: Christopher de Villiers grew up in a small town near Pretoria. When still in high school, he started working on small film projects, live shows and theatre productions. He moved to the town of Stellenbosch to attend university in 2016 where he built many of his own camera equipment and gained experience in television production. At university, he met Pierre Stemmett (Silver Kingdom’s music producer). Christopher has directed all Pierre’s music videos and live shows.
Midnight (6’36”, Hungary)
DIRECTOR: Leila Jurdi
INSTITUTE: SZFE – University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: A brief story told in one long scene. A girl is waiting for someone in a bar and she has a special gift for this special person. We will soon realize that this person does not want her present.
PROFILE: Leila Jurdi is a Syrian-Hungarian film director, graduated in 2020 at the University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE), Budapest. In her films, she likes to tell tales of modern day alienation and loneliness with a touch of magical realism.
Mohinos de Vento (4’10”, Brazil)
DIRECTOR: Dani Drumond
INSTITUTE: Universidade Federal Fluminense
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: Moinhos de Vento [Windmills] is the first music video by the Brazilian musician Zebeto Corrêa. The clip, in reverse speed, portrays the process of moving to a new apartment where the singer is faced with a series of personal objects that refer to his memories, to lost friends, to relationships that have no ties.
PROFILE: Dani Drumond is a documentary filmmaker born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He studied Social Communications at the University of São Paulo. He is the director of photography of the short movie Cantareira, third prize at Cinéfondation, 74 th Festival de Cannes, and other multi awarded short films. Dani works as a documentarist, filmmaker and director of photography.
Helydea (4’25”, Italy)
DIRECTOR: Roberto Pisapia
INSTITUTE: Università degli Studi di Salerno
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: Among the trees of the forest of her memory, Helydea must store yet another memory, a painful one difficult to keep. However, first of all she has to climb up a steep slope, with the weight of her memory hanging on her side and preventing her from moving freely.
PROFILE: Roberto Pisapia is a PhD student in Sciences and Cultures and a graduate in Corporate Communication and Media at UniSa. Since 2013, he has accumulated experience as a filmmaker thanks to commercials and low budget short films, music videos and reportage; he has also worked as assistant director. He holds a course in Creative Editing at the ASL Psychotic Beginnings Center in Salerno. His current field of research is contemporary and interactive documentary, intertwining with game studies, from an aesthetic point of view.
Wish You Were Here (3’12”, India)
DIRECTOR: Aditya Vikram Chawla
INSTITUTE: Whistling Woods International
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic world, two thieves fall in love with each other. One kills the other showing the dark side of our world and our future.
PROFILE: Aditya Vikram Chawla believes that life has been beautiful no matter what, however, hunting for dreams is what makes life worth living. Filmmaking is more than a profession, job or a duty. Rather, he believes it is his purpose in life.
Pick Up Your Cross (and follow me) (2’53”, Austria)
DIRECTOR: Michael J. Keplinger
INSTITUTE: Universidade Federal Fluminense
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: In a post-apocalyptic world, two thieves fall in love with each other. One kills the other showing the dark side of our world and our future.
PROFILE: Michael J. Keplinger (1999, Linz) began making music and music videos at the age of eight and is currently studying media technology in St. Pölten.
The Tower (3’58”, Croatia)
DIRECTOR: Sunčana Brkulj
INSTITUTE: University of Zagreb
YEAR: 2020
SYNOPSIS: As the years go by, a tiny civilization makes its way upwards.
PROFILE: Sunčana Brkulj was born in 1997 in Zadar, Croatia. In 2016, she enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 2019, and is currently pursuing a Master of Arts (MA) in animation. Sunčana has worked on several animation projects as lead or assistant animator. She created her debut animated short, “The Sensitive Prince”, in 2018, and the film has since been accepted to be presented at several different festivals, most notably the Pula Film Festival. Besides animation, Sunčana also works in the field of illustration and comics, and has exhibited works at several solo and group exhibitions.
