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When Light Is Displaced

When Light Is Displaced
Zaina Bseiso
International Competition Short Film 2021
Documentary Film
USA
2021
7 minutes
Arabic
Subtitles: 
English

In her light-footed film miniature, Zaina Bseiso links the disappearance of the last orange grove from the suburbs of Los Angeles with the fate of the Jaffa orange, a native fruit of Palestine. When she engages her father in a conversation regarding this content and artistic concept, it turns into a discussion about how a good documentary can approach reality and why – with all due respect for realism – we must never underestimate the power of illusion.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Zaina Bseiso
Script
Zaina Bseiso
Cinematographer
Zaina Bseiso, Luis Gutierrez Arias
Editor
Zaina Bseiso
Producer
Luis Gutierrez Arias, Zaina Bseiso
Sound
Sarah Ibrahim, Gavati Wad
Score
Brian Griffith
Animation
Adam Wand, Jordan Wong
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William Jefferson Wilderness

William Jefferson Wilderness
Ben Young
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
UK,
USA
2020
6 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

An inventive examination of the legacy of the 1990s: In his experimental short film, Ben Young portrays the figure of the then U.S. president – whom he is said to have met once in person in Louisville, Kentucky – as a foil for the questionable political developments, the beginnings of a globalised world and a society marked by collective amnesia. The director’s intelligent, witty and very personal reckoning with Bill Clinton.

Borjana Gaković

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Ben Young
Script
Ben Young
Editor
Theo Watkins
Producer
Ben Young
Sound
Emily Wiles, Jack Eyres
Animation
Theo Watkins