p.o.v.

Number 5, March 1998

CONTENTS

On this issue of p.o.v.

Three Recent Short Fiction Films

1. Marcell Iványi, WIND (Hungary, 1996)

   Film data and synopsis

   Richard Raskin: An Outline of Wind

   RR: An Interview with Marcell Iványi on Wind

   RR: An Interview with Yvette Biró on Wind

   Edvin Kau: Film, Adaptation, Photograph

   Thomas Byers: "Open Your Eyes": Reading Iványi's Wind

   
   

2. Thomas Briat, IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE (France, 1995)

   Film data and synopsis

   Richard Raskin: An Outline of Immediate Departure

   RR: An Interview with Thomas Briat on Immediate Departure

   RR: An Interview with Mary-Anne de la Palme on Immediate Departure

   RR: An Interview with Amira Casar on Immediate Departure

   RR: An Interview with Bruno Lochet on Immediate Departure

   Søren Kolstrup: Visual Construction and Classic Plot in Immediate Departure

   Richard Raskin: On the Ending of Immediate Departure

   
   

3. Vincent Bal, THE BLOODY OLIVE (Belgium, 1996)

   Film data and synopsis

   Richard Raskin: An Outline of The Bloody Olive

   RR: From Imbroglio to The Bloody Olive: the Characters' Look

   RR: An interview with Vincent Bal on The Bloody Olive

   Niels Weisberg: The Bloody Olive

On the Art of the Short Fiction Film

Johannes Riis: Toward a Poetics of the Short Film

Bevin Yeatman: What Makes a Short Fiction Film Good?

Richard Raskin: Five Parameters for Story Design in the Short Fiction Film




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The publication of the present issue of p.o.v. is timed to coincide with the 3rd International Short Film Symposium, to be held at Aarhus University on March 11, 1998. On that occasion, three prize-winning short films will be presented by their directors: Wind (Marcell Iványi, Hungary, 1996), Immediate Departure (Thomas Briat, France, 1995) and The Bloody Olive (Vincent Bal, Belgium, 1996). The present issue contains a section on each those films, supplying film data, outlines of the films, interviews and analyses. The issue also contains three essays on the art of the short fiction film - an area that has been sorely neglected and about which virtually no research has previously been published. Four new contributors have articles in this issue: Niels Weisberg, who teaches film history here at the Department of Information and Media Science; Thomas Byers, who teaches American literature and film at the University of Louisville in the U.S.; Johannes Riis, who is writing a Ph. D. thesis on the short film at Copenhagen University; and Bevin Yeatman, who is completing a D. Phil. thesis at Waikato University in New Zealand, also on the short film. This issue also contains contributions by the "usual suspects" at the Department of Information and Media Science: Edvin Kau, Søren Kolstrup and myself. In connection with this issue of p.o.v. as well as with the 3rd International Short Film Symposium, there are a number of people who were extremely helpful in putting me in touch with the filmmakers, supplying stills and information of various kinds, or for agreeing to interviews. I would especially like to thank: Klára Paszternák at Profilm-M 94 in Hungary; Yvette Biró at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York; producer Mary-Anne de la Palme at Les Films du Grillon in Paris; the actors, Bruno Lochet and Amira Casar, both in Paris; producer Hilde De Laere at Multimedia in Belgium; the French comic strip artist and author, Lewis Trondheim; Laurent Thyssen at the French Institute in Copenhagen; Christine Gendre at Unifrance in Paris; and above all, the three young directors: Marcell Iványi, Thomas Briat and Vincent Bal

Richard Raskin

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The next issue of p.o.v. The sixth issue of p.o.v. (December 1998) will be devoted to the art of film editing. To obtain a free copy of p.o.v. number 6, send a stamped (8 kr. 75) self-addressed A5 envelope to: Richard Raskin, editor Department of Information and Media Science Helsingforsgade 14 DK-8200 Aarhus N

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