One of the classifications for tbhis year's online Bolton Film Festival is 'Culture Vulture': not a genre of film but more that the films themselves are related to or are about The Arts.
1. Behind The Curtain - Italy - Dir: Giacomo Boeri and Matteo Grimaldi
This extremely stylised and choroegraphed short film (lasting only 1 minute 30 seconds) is a colourful and clever evocation to the fasion industry. We are shown 'behind the curtain' at a Milan catwalk fashion show, and behind this curtain all is colourful, and chic, with a modern pulsating soundtrack, and as the film ends, they open the curtains to darkness, dullness, no light and no life.
2. Beaugan - France - Dir: Louis Mas
The film has been given a very grainy retro quality as well as deliberately fraying the edges of the frame to 'age' the film. I'm uncertain why and what this represents, but it does make the watching a little more interesting.
Beaugan is a spirit, and he emerges from the water, finds human clothes as he travels across the terrain, going through wood, a deserted building complex, and finally finding the beach and returns to the sea again at the end. It is supposed to represent a spirit's day on earth; however who or what is the spirit? why has it come to earth? why does it take on human form? why does it feel it needs to be clothed? where is it travelling to and from? and moreover never once does the spirit look happy or at peace...why?
The spirit is performed by Idis Veitch.
Reviewer - Matthew Dougall
on - 18/10/20
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