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Canal Alfa

Short Films Selection

Alpha Channel

• Supervenus

  Frédéric Doazan / France, 2013, 2’38’’, SD

  A plastic surgeon creates the new Venus in real time.

• Tant de fôrets

  Burcu Sankur and Geoffrey Godet / France, 2014, 3’, Original version with Catalan subtitles

  In this poem, Jacques Prévert criticises the destruction of forests to make paper pulp—paper that is then used to tell people about the dangers of deforestation.

• The Man with the Beautiful Eyes

  Jonathan Hodgson / United Kingdom, 2000, 5’38’’, Original version with Catalan subtitles

  In this poem by Charles Bukowski, a gang of kids find a strange house with an overgrown garden where they play. Only once do they meet the man who lives there, a dead-beat alcoholic with a free and easy spirit who welcomes them. The children see him as a romantic character, in stark contrast to their neurotically house-proud parents.

• Aftermath

  Layla Atkinson / United Kingdom, 2016, 2’45’’, Original version with Catalan subtitles

  An adaptation of a war poem by Siegfried Sassoon, Aftermath, which was broadcast every Armistice Day for many years after the war.

• Words Fail Me – Virginia Woolf

  Phoebe Halstead / United Kingdom, 2016, 2’22’’, Original version with Catalan subtitles

  Using the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice, first broadcast on BBC radio on 29 April 1937, this animation explores Woolf’s train of thought about the democratic power of words. Animation commissioned by BBC Culture.

• George the Poet on Climate Change

  Katie Halil / United Kingdom, 2015, 2’38’’, Original version with Catalan subtitles

  What will it take to make us act on climate change? BRIT-nominated wordsmith George the Poet issues a compelling call to action in this powerful original poem commissioned by RSA.