Found Footage 1 – BSFF 2023
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The found footage was made popular by successful horror films such as Rec or The Blair Witch Project. It also refers to a large number of fascinating documentaries or experimental films that are less known from the general public. With reels found in a flea market, CCTV footages or YouTube channels of unknown people at the other side of the planet, these images questioned and obsessed the filmmakers of the two programmes. At a time when the mass of images and videos is increasing exponentially and our exposure to them is always greater, these films enable us to think about the relationship we have with these images and videos.
The Last Days of Peter Bergmann
Ciaran Cassidy, 2013, 19′
In the summer of 2009, a man calling himself Peter Bergmann arrived in Sligo Town. Over his final three days, he would go to great lengths to ensure no one would ever discover who he was and where he came from.
Sur la plage de Belfast
Henri-François Imbert, 1996, 39′
Belfast, 12 years ago, a family movie filmed at the beach. Paris, October 1994 : the desire to find this family again. A trip to Northern Ireland the day after the cease-fire. Chairman, the little girl in the movie, is now 16.
200 000 Phantoms
Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2007, 11′
Illustrated by means of 600 photographs of the Gembaku Dome in Hiroshima, the history of the twentieth century files past. In 1915, the dome was a dazzling centre of elegant urban life in Japan. On 6 August 1945, the atomic bomb Little Boy brought this to a definitive end. Within one second, 78,000 people perished and the city was completely destroyed, the dome included.
A story for the Modlins
Sergio Oksman, 2012, 26′
After appearing in the film ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, Elmer Modlin fled with his family to a far off country and shut himself away in a dark apartment for thirty years.
The Brussels Short Film Festival (BSFF) returns for its 26th edition from April 26 to May 6. A total of 295 short films will be screened during 90 sessions of 1h30. Among them, 121 films will participate in the competition, divided into three categories: national, international and “Next generation”, intended for film students.
