2019 Dawson City International Short Film Festival Program DCISFF_2019_program_web | Page 16

FRIDAY, April 19, 11:30pm
When No One’s Watching
Teodora Zamfirescu, BC, Experimental, 3m
A young man, too young for his business suit and too old to
be a fool, walks through an imposing corporate architecture
while allowing himself to act out playful and inappropriate
behavioural fantasies.
MORPHOSIS
Santiago Castaño, USA, Animation, 11m
MORPHOSIS is a delirious fable about an enslaved,
colourful, little frog (Rena) who became a liberator. Where
once existed a lush and paradisiac forest, now remains a
desolate landscape inhabited by a community of tyrannized
amphibians, forced to operate a huge industrial, tree
swallowing mill. Other stronger, armed frogs keep the slaves
subjugated with their menacing weapons. How will Rena
defeat this evil regime and its gluttonous, narcissist leader?
Hint: magic fruits are involved…
The Worm
Charles Grenier, QC, Narrative, 15m
Inheriting the family home is a chance for Jules and his
partner, Alice, to write their own page in his family history.
But they are thwarted by a strange force that spreads
insidiously throughout the house. Is nostalgia driving Jules
into madness?
Nyctophobia
Jean-François Boisvenue, QC, Experimental, 9m
Nyctophobia is an essay-documentary about psychological
distress. Jean-François Boisvenue tells us about his childhood
fears and his history of mental illness. On the screen, we can
see a series of hand-drawn animations projected onto his
body that plunges us into psychosis and depersonalization.
The whole was captured by the camera without
postproduction effects.
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