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Pavilion Shorts: March 2025

Pavilion Shorts: March 2025

Description

Pavilion Shorts brings curious, thought-provoking and beautiful international short documentaries to the big screen. New and old films explore timeless stories, address topical issues or introduce worlds you had no idea existed. The selection examines different ways we document the world around us through moving, striking or funny films.

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Composition

The Film You Are About to See

The Film You Are About to See

Almost all films are preceded by a disclaimer. There is a deeply embedded fear of being misunderstood—and all the attendant legal consequences. But these attempts at self-protection undermine the essence of film as a limitless imagination machine.

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing

A Scottish missionary captured the floral splendor of Palestine on 16mm film in the 1930s and 1940s. In this montage, the footage becomes a melancholic exploration of the complex relationship between the land and its inhabitants.

Being John Smith

Being John Smith

What’s it like to be an artist named “John Smith”? Despite his success, avant-garde artist John Smith continues to have insecurities about his nondescript name. He ponders the matter in this humorous, multilayered, and stylistically novel account.

Perfectly a Strangeness

Perfectly a Strangeness

Somewhere in a desert, three donkeys discover an astronomical observatory, and with it an entire universe. What is more wondrous: the immense brilliance of the Milky Way, or the little fluffy hairs in a donkey’s ear?

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