Pavilion Shorts
Explore unfamiliar worlds and gain insight into current events through a selection of beautiful, humorous, and surprising films.
To the Moon and Back
Netherlands - 2019 - Sara Kolster - 16 min.
A tender portrait of Kess, who’s about to start high school but isn’t sure how much to tell her new classmates about her sister Bo, who died from brain stem cancer when Kess was almost five.
Lost on Arrival
Netherlands - 2020 - Esther Polak, Ivar van Bekkum - 8 min.
After retiring, a man wants to return to the Caribbean island where he lived during his working life. However, advancing dementia ruins his idyllic plans. He moves there but never really arrives.
The Origin of Trouble
Netherlands - 2016 - Tessa Louise Pope - 30 min.
In her multi-award-winning graduation film, director Tessa Louise Pope talks with family members to get to the bottom of her complicated relationship with the great absence in her life, her biological father. Screening programmed in light of Documentaire Dilemma's #4 on Wednesday April 3.
Bullet
Netherlands, Peru - 2021 - Maya Watanabe - 10 min.
Video artist Maya Watanabe explores deep ravines, jagged-edged craters and bony reefs: the ominous “landscape” in the skull of one of the many unidentified victims of the 1980–2000 Peruvian Civil War.
Hours of Glass
Netherlands - 2018 - Michiel van Bakel - 7 min
The roles are reversed when observatories are viewed with a seemingly extraterrestrial eye. A poetic miniature about interstellar surveillance and the relationship between an infinite universe and limited human life.
