Lucky I am, I spent yesterday afternoon doing of my favorites activities : watching movies ! It was the second edition of the Edge Atlantic Film Festival, a 4-day event taking place in NYC for the first time (last year was in Paris). They screen professional and non-professional (aka film student) movies. During three hours, I watched four shorts films from Tisch School of the Arts and four from La Fémis, the most prestigious film school in France.
Being thrown in less that 40 minutes each time in a director's world 8 times back to back is a pretty interesting experience. After the (long but rich)screening, there was an intimate Q & A with the students. Jay Anania,the professor at Tisch, was next to me and listening to the students and their professor, I felt I was 25 again!
My favorite US short was "Little horses" by Levi Abrino : a bittersweet comedy about a divorced small town postal worker who tires to win his family back by getting a blind and deaf pony for his son's birthday.
My favorite French was "Coucou les nuages" by Vincent Cardona, a 38 minute film about the last days of Hans Muller, the first amateur astonaut in the history. Vincent plays the main character and I was mesmerized by the female lead, Mathilde Bisson.
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