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Begone Dull Care
Begone Dull Care (Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart, 1949)

    Begone Dull Care

    Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren, Canada, 1949, 8’

    A vivid interpretation of jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio. Begone Dull Care brings a wild piece of music to life with abstract expressionist animation. It captures the energy of the piece in visual form. Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip, impossible to simulate with digital tools. 

    Bio Norman McLaren

    Norman McLaren (1914-1987) was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number of areas, including drawn-on-film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation, and graphical sound. His awards included an Oscar for Best Documentary in 1952 for Neighbours, a Silver Bear for best short documentary at the 1956 Berlin International Film Festival, and a 1969 BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film for Pas de deux.

    I want to tell the viewer about my inner feelings, but I don’t want to tell the viewer about my inner thoughts and opinions—you know, intellectualising. In Begone Dull Care, I’m telling them how I feel about that music.

    Norman McLaren
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    “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025

    02.02.2026

    As a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image, yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, together with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, critics, and scholars worldwide to participate in a first-ever poll of its kind. Invitees were asked to nominate ten audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. Through this non-academic approach to canon-building, this has led to an inspiring list of 105 titles.

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    Tony Hill, United Kingdom, 1984, 18’

    With a single camera movement, this film explores humankind’s relationship to the ground. The viewpoint continuously changes. Places, objects, people, and events come in and out of focus. These observations gradually speed up and reveal a double-sided ground, flipping like a tossed coin, which then slows again to oscillate around the Earth’s edge.

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    Empty House

    Gina Kim, South Korea, USA, 1999, 24’

    This video diary depicts a young woman’s flat, the fears and fantasies about her body plainly revealed as she wakes up with a bloated face, full of self-loathing after a night of compulsive over-eating.

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    Hannan Jones, Australia, 2023, 4’

    By interweaving esoteric texts and images, Working Knowledge of Ritual underscores the interconnectedness of spirituality and nature. The film muses on our energies alongside the natural world, inspired by the writings of Leonard Jones.

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    Snow Edge

    Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Colombia, 2021, 15’

    The thaw of the so-called eternal snow of Páramo, a neotropical alpine ecosystem in the high Andes, exposes a layer of meaning about the origins and survival of the landscape.

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    The Age of Anxiety

    Taiki Sakpisit, Thailand, 2013, 14’

    An audiovisual meditation on the fin de siècle in Thailand.

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    Paradise

    Laura Vandewynckel, Belgium, 2014, 6’

    People are heading for a better place on either side of the ocean. Although their paths do cross at times, they never really seem to meet. Paradise is a light-hearted yet critical reflection on the ethics of tourism.

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    Un Chien Andalou

    Luis Buñuel, France, 1929, 21’

    Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel wrote his first feat together with Salvador Dalí, based on their dreams. Don’t get stuck on the plot. Buñuel deliberately omits chronology and opts for Freudian dream logic, in which scenes do not necessarily follow one another logically.

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    À l’usage des vivants

    Pauline Fonsny, Belgium, 2019, 27’

    In 1998, Semira Adamu, a 20-year-old Nigerian immigrant, died on Belgian soil of suffocation under a police pillow. Twenty years later, two women tell her story in a cry for justice. Through this film, they highlight the reality of detention centres: the harsh conditions of confinement, the suffering of detainees and the abuse by guards and police officers.

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