Student Shorts
by Ealasaid Haas • February 20, 2008 • Cinequest 18, Shorts
Screenings: February 28, 7:30 pm (Cam 12); March 2, 10:30 am (Cam 12).
This collection of films springs from the minds of young filmmakers, and ranges from the fanciful to the brutally real in styles ranging from spare animation to lush dreamscapes to documentary. There’s “My First Taste of Death,” a strange tale written by a 12-year-old and directed by her 35-year-old self. The documentary “Bullet Proof Vest” looks at what life is like for a couple of young children in Richmond, California — the 11th most dangerous city in the country. A balloon brings the courage to reach for their dreams to a series of people in “Dreams,” and the man in the moon visits earth in “Mondmann.”