2018 Dawson City International Short Film Festival Program DCISFF_2018_PROGRAM_web | Page 12

FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 9:30 PM
Front
Ivar Aase, Norway, 7m, drama
When Herman (9) finds a videotape that his
mother doesn’t want anyone to see, he gains the
upper hand in the family’s power struggle. A dark
comedy with a marriage at play, directed by the
son in the house.
Skin for Skin
Carol Beecher/ Kevin D.A. Kurytnik, AB,
15m, animation
Skin for Skin is a dark allegory of greed and
spiritual reckoning during the early days of the
fur trade. In 1823, the Governor of the largest fur
trading company in the world travels across his
Dominion, extracting ever-greater riches from the
winter bounty of animal furs. In his brutal world
of profit and loss, animals are slaughtered to the
brink of extinction until the balance of power shifts,
and the forces of nature exact their own terrible
price.
Lookout
Kyath Battie, SK, 12m, experimental
Gaining elevation is a very complex concept. The
higher we ascend, the more removed we are from
normal everyday affairs, but the broader our gaze
becomes, the more profound our sense of our
situation in the world.
Lookout is a personal experimental documentary
that examines this kind of elevation or ‘lookout’
through the discovery of human ashes atop a
mountain, and a distinct, yet fragmented audio
collage of 80’s mix cassette tapes.
Battles
Karen Pinette Fontaine, QC, 4m, drama
At nightfall, Karen decides to leave the party
where a friend is in the process of losing herself. A
life metaphor, this battlefield.
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