BendFilm Festival 2021

A Place for Everyone - Shorts

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9 films in package
The Best Orchestra in the World
Ingbert, a sock, applies for a position as a double bass player at the Vienna State Orchestra.
Freebird
The coming-of-age story of a boy with Down Syndrome, navigating the world with an absent father, a classroom bully, and a life-long crush.
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Nudity
In a fabric society, a young figure diverges from rigid gender binaries to explore where their identity lies.
When I'm Her
Michael was a ballet prodigy with a stellar career ahead of him. He transformed into a Russian ballet instructor named Madame Olga as a way to both embrace himself as an artist and reconcile with the trauma from his past.
Short Calf Muscle
Anders is different, but he doesn't know how. Or, is he?
The Black Stonefly
Gian Lawrence found salvation and purpose in fly fishing. Fly fishing can be about finding a new identity thanks to pioneers like him.
On the Couch With My Depression
Full of excited anticipation, a poet plans to go to a book party. Then along comes depression.
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Rat Tail
Rat Tail is a self-deprecating look at director Chad Sogas’ battle with depression using archival footage and ephemera from his past, focusing primarily on the rat tail he had for ten years that his parents still keep in the storage room of their basement.
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When viewed side by side, stories of our differences become proof of our sameness. Here is a beautiful collection of stories about the various ways in which we can all relate to each other’s experiences of feeling ‘different’.

Full of excited anticipation, a poet plans to go to a book party. Then along comes depression. A film about yearning simply to be able to clean your teeth and leave the house. Based on the poem "I was going to go to Dorothea Lasky’s book party in Brooklyn, but instead I stayed on the couch with my depression, not crying" by Paula Harris.


About the Director:

With a background in film-making, art, design and creativity, Angharad wrote and directed her first short film in 2011. Her art is to combine her passions of film-making and mental health awareness and in 2019, she headed the team behind her first short film It Is Me. In the foreseeable future, she wishes to continue to combined these two passions to create more creative content. As a director, producer and DOP, Angharad's short films have been officially selected into Canberra Mental Health Film Festival 2019 and 2020, Hot Springs International Women’s Film Festival 2020, Conquering Disabilities with Film International Film Festival 2020, Courage Film Festival 2020, MHSA Film Festival 2020 and 2021, 9th International Video Poetry Film Festival 2021, Ó Bhèal Poetry-Film Competition 2021, Zebra Poetry Film Festival 2020, Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2021 and Festival du film Au Contraire 2021.


Film Contact:

Contact: Paula Harris (poet/producer)

Website: www.paulaharris.co.nz

Email: offkilter@paulaharris.co.nz

Twitter: @paulaoffkilter

Instagram: @paulaharris_poet

Facebook: @paulaharrispoet


  • Runtime
    6 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    New Zealand
  • Premiere
    Oregon Premiere, West Coast Premiere
  • Director
    Angharad Gladding
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