Alpha Channel
Wednesday
TEDGlobal 2009 / UK, 2009, 18’ 49’’, Catalan subtitles
Our lives, our cultures, are made up of many superposed stories. Writer Chimamanda Adichie explains how she found her true cultural voice, while warning of the danger of listening to a single version.
Daniel Sax / Germany, 2014, 2’18’’, Catalan subtitles
Inspired by the short film by David Shiyang Liu and created using the recorded words of Ira Glass, Daniel Sax puts images to this talk about overcoming creative doubt and awareness of the existence of a threatening gap that lies between our taste and our abilities.
Josh Raskin / Canada, 2007, 5’14’’, Catalan subtitles
Taking as their reference Lewis Carroll’s walrus from the poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Alice in Wonderland, the Beatles wrote the song “I am the Walrus”. Years later, a 14-year-old Jerry Levitan slipped into John Lennon’s hotel room and conducted the interview we hear in this animated short.
Ben Barrett-Forrest / Canada, 2013, 5’09’’, Catalan subtitles
The paper cut-outs of this animated short film review the changes in type face throughout history, from Johannes Gutenberg’s Blackletter, through changes in the early serif font, with Caslon and Baskerville, to Futura and Helvetica, and typefaces generated by the introduction of computers.
Vessela Dantcheva / Bulgaria - Germany, 2009, 9’05’’, Catalan subtitles
Anna Blume is a visual poem about the desires of a man pursuing a woman. The story is like a surrealist journey dictated by the poet’s mind. Lust and ingestion, disguised as love, lead the two characters to a denouement in which love is a lonely, disquieting place. Based on and inspired by the love poem written in 1919, “An Anna Blume”, by Kurt Schwitters.
Emile Rafael / UK, 2014, 3’20’’, Spanish subtitles
Alan Moore, the creator of comics like Watchmen and V for Vendetta, receives us on the film set of his latest project, His Heavy Heart, carried out jointly with photographer Mitch Jenkins. Surrounded by the characters of this new story, Moore reveals its keys, highlighting the blurred line between fiction and reality.
Izibene Oñederra / Spain, 2013, 5’25’’, Spanish subtitles
“I said I was a filmmaker… and nothing has changed. Amid those landscapes roams the soul, now sure, now uncertain of its own existence, while the body is and is and is, and has nowhere to go.” Animated short film based on the poem “Torture”, by Wislawa Szymborska.
Dress Code / United States, 2013, 5’58’’, Catalan subtitles
Shortly before their company was closed down, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones were interviewed together for the last time in this documentary, opening the doors to their world as font creators. After leading one of the world’s biggest studios, Hoefler and Frere-Jones’ fonts include those of the Wall Street Journal and the US presidential campaign.
Špela Čadež / Slovenia-Germany, 2013, 12’, English subtitles
Filip is a writer who lives in a poor district. He dreams of glory and a life of luxury in a more prosperous part of town. One day, his neighbour Tereza, a prostitute, asks him to write her a letter for her fiancé. It would have ended well if she hadn’t knocked on his door again a week later to ask for another one. Short film based on a story by Maksim Gorky.
Richard West / Northern Ireland, 2013, 29’28’’, Catalan subtitles
W.G. Sebald said that photography formed an intimate part of his working process. A clear example is his book Austerlitz, in which the author accompanies the story with images that are frequently enigmatic. Taking in some of the locations photographed in the book, the reportage explores the significance that these images bring to the story and the possible relation with the author.
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