Indy Film Library (Amsterdam) has announced its third annual Experimental Showcase. Memory Care … the long goodbye, is one of the six films selected. Starting 09:00 CET (3pm in New York, noon on the West Coast) on Monday 28th August 2023. The two-week exhibition of international short films will show free of charge on IFL’s website: Indy Film Library.
Chief Editor Jack Brindelli comments: “Since founding IFL, I’ve found a new appreciation for experimental films. They get an unfair reputation for being obtuse and exclusionary, but the best films in this field simply dare to ask us as viewers to think – there is stacks of meaning in each of these films; they just aren’t going to baby us when it comes to spelling it out. The six short films selected for IFL’s third Experimental Showcase exemplify just how diverse and complex this form of art is – but also how certain universal themes run through all human lives, however different they might be. This year there is a common thread of memory passing through each movie: characters warmly remembering loved ones as they stand in the rubble of the present, wishing they could change the past with their knowledge of what is to come, and confronting a terrifying reality as their memories start to desert them. As much of our popular media looks to brush the trauma of the last three years under the carpet and move on without learning anything, helping us re-examine our concept of memory with fresh eyes is worth its weight in gold.”
All the films will be available to view for free via the Indy Film Library website – before the Best Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film and Best Director will be announced. Meanwhile, viewers will also have the opportunity to select the winner of the Audience Choice Award.So VOTE!
The six films are:
Memory Care: The Long Goodbye
Dir. Catherine Forster
Yesterday Ended Last Night
Dir. Galenus Zhou, Jia Jie Lin & Ze Cong Kuang
HARD…Boiled!!!
Dir. Angelina Fernández
Skate Scratch
Dir. Wyatt Cunningham
Isolation Terminal
Dir. Paula Romero
Hook
Dir. Yasir Assim Al A’asam