Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Comes To Pratt
Thursday, Mar 01, 2012 @ 5:52 pm
One Night Only!
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival Comes To Pratt
Thursday, March 1 at 7pm in ARC, E-2
One of the world's leading festivals devoted to short films, Clermont-Ferrand in France is a vital showcase and a market for shorts, attracting over 100,000 visitors each year. Often referred to as the ‘Cannes’ of short film, it is now in the fourth decade. Originally Clermont-Ferrand screened only fiction films and only on 16mm and 35mm. But with the arrival of new technologies, a new competition called LABO (The LAB) was established in 2002. The LAB brings audiences films at the crossroads of different techniques and genres such as Fiction/ Documentary, Experimental/Fiction, Animation/Documentary, etc.
Thursday, March 1 Pratt’s Film/Video Dept. will host the LAB's curator Calmin Borel and this year's LAB's jury member filmmaker Alla Kovgan who put together a diverse and eclectic mix of films from the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. The programs are presented in collaboration with Dance Films Association (New York), Balagan Film Series (Boston) and supported by the Cultural Services of the French Consulate in New York and Boston and by Cine 2000.
