Main B, 1:45 PM
ReelHeART Main “B” Program
Theater 222, Innis College,
2 Sussex Street, U of T Campus, Toronto, M5S 1J5
(1 block south of St. George Subway)
2 Sussex Street, U of T Campus, Toronto, M5S 1J5
(1 block south of St. George Subway)
**Filmmakers and Special Guests in Attendance**
Larry and Roz
Director, Kristen Palana, USA
Larry, a 93 year-old widower confined to a Nursing Home, remembers a time when he had more spring in his step. Based on real audio recordings from 2002, animator Kristen Palana uses individually painted digital images to imagine and recreate her grandfather’s first attempts to woo his beloved Roz. Set in both 1943 and 2007, ‘Larry and Roz’ is a three and a half minute glimpse into one couple’s six decade relationship.
TRAILER: Coming Soon
Inflatable You
Director, Eric Wobma, Netherlands
Kees Hoogeveen uses his horn majestically to improvise over a tongue-in-cheek suburban view of Amsterdam…
Trailer: Coming Soon
Flora’s Fancy Free
Gregory Gutenko, USA
An homage to Norman McLaren, this is a paint-on-film work that combines permanent marker animation with a live action dancer in silhouette. Made in 1975 as an undergraduate student project. The theme is ‘external play becoming internal consciousness’.
Trailer: Coming Soon
Mixed Bag, or What’s In A Dream…
Director, Eric Wobma, Netherlands
A surreal quest by a man who is to meet more than he has bargained for.
Trailer: Coming Soon
Magritte Moment
Director, Ian Fischer, USA
A frustrated painter searching for his muse finds her with the help of the surreal images from Belgian painter Rene Magritte.
TRAILER: Coming Soon
Identity – The True Story of Juan Piras Perón
Director, Chiara Bellini, Italy/Argentina
In the summer of 1909, the stuff of family legends and world history was born. 18-year-old Giovanni Piras left his home in Mamoiada, a small village in Barbagia, Sardinia, to seek his fortune in Argentina. But his letters to home quickly became less frequent and then they broke off altogether after only a few years. And then one Sunday in the 1950’s Giovanni’s sister, Caterina, found him again. He was on the cover of a magazine as Juan Domingo Peron, President of Argentina. Nowadays, back in Sardinia, rumours still surround the fate of Giovanni in the Piras family and the fables about him in Argentina are even more grand and bizarre. So we ask the question: Who really was the legendary Juan Domingo Peron?
Trailer: Coming Soon
