Cortos

The grapevine spoke to me a few days ago, and whispered something about a film festival put on by Renderyard Social Film Network that would be showing shorts by artists from all around the world. The prospect of some art and culture ¨a le vez¨ sounded great to me, but so did getting on the bus and shipping myself in the general direction of, without knowing where exactly, the film festival actually was...

The film festival was shown in a building called Think-TIC, a government owned building dedicated to technology and the exposition of government subsidized programs, which is something that I am by no means familiar with. However, the function of these programs was not the only thing I didn´t know about... The building itself was a mystery to me, like what lies inside of a Zerg base being invaded. I said screw it, got on a bus, and went towards where I thought it ¨should¨ be. Great idea, I know. The funny thing is that I ran into these two Polish girls that I know, who had done the exact same thing and were just as confused, so we wandered around in the freezing cold looking for a possibly non-existant building. Each time I asked a person where it was, I augmented the building´s name more and more. I had no idea what it was really called because the name is in English and a Spanish person told me the name (they don´t pronounce English very well normally), but it just so happens that the word ¨think¨ is pronounced almost exactly the same in both languages, so I was confused and thought it was something in Spanish that I did not understand.

We found the building. It was this very interesting style of architecture which involved lot´s of metal cables and heavy wooden planks leading down a ramp to an entirely glass building that was half underground. It gave me the sensation that I was walking into a wooden ship that had sunk into the earth, and then been modified and inhabited by modern architects. Quite an image I´m sure.

The films were divided into 2 categories that lasted about 1.5 hours each; animated, and documentaries. The majority were in English, and some were silent, but if they weren´t in English, the subtitles were, which had many of the Spanish people frustrated. Many interesting shorts were shown, and I actually recognized a girl that I worked with in Winston-Salem in one of them! The documentaries were ALL captivating and well done, while some of the animations left something to be desired, but since we watched about 20 of them, not much was lost.

It was a somehow successful in the long run. YUJU!