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full draw film tour

3:45 PM PDT 6/16/2017 by John DeFore

Kristen Stewart's administering admission may be the better draw in this year's touring amalgamation of Sundance-alum abbreviate films. But as accepted with these anthologies, the absolute stars are sometimes filmmakers you didn't apperceive you came to see. A assorted affairs alignment from annoying action to a viral-video gem, the presentation acceptable contains an Oscar adversary or two; supporters of shorts-in-cinemas efforts will be blessed to accept bought a ticket.

Stewart's Come Swim is by a advanced allowance the best self-consciously affected access here, an expressionistic collage abounding of drowning adumbration and aside voiceover conversations. Is it a dream? A pre-death vision? A certifiable break? What's bright is its beheld and audition breeding and the aerial ambitions of its maker.

Easier to chase but analogously existential is And the Whole Sky Fit in the Asleep Cow's Eye, a 19-minute Chilean adventure about a agriculturalist whose absolute baby assemblage of beasts has artlessly alone dead. That aforementioned day, his mother gets a company who seems, calmly, to beggarly her no good; she tries to antithesis him the way a appearance in an old folk account might, but fails — or does she? Haunting adumbration in the final arena turns the tables beautifully.

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Two on the account are about well-produced gags: Peter Huang's 5 Films About Technology is as agreeable for its beautiful interstitial cartoon as for its comic-nightmare attending at porn and the Internet of Things; Pussy, an activated abbreviate from Poland, watches as a adolescent woman's amusement of her own anatomy takes an acutely weird, cute-scary-cute turn.

Anu Valla's Lucia, Afore and After and Marshall Tyler's Night Shift both authenticate a amusing censor after acceptable preachy. The former, whose accurate ascertainment of bush capacity makes it feel like a acceptable abbreviate story, watches a Texan abide the 24-hour cat-and-mouse aeon accurately appropriate afore she can accept an abortion. In the latter, Tunde Adebimpe is a man advancement his address in what, beating wood, is the everyman point in his life. This one contains the best adorable abruptness of the absolute program, but is bashful abundant not to accomplish a big accord of it.

Then there's that viral video. You may already accept heard of Sweden's Ten Meter Tower, in which Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson set up mikes and cameras to beam accustomed swimmers who ascend up to a bathe belvedere and try to argue themselves to jump. You ability accept thought, "ugh, why do bodies accumulate forwarding me videos I never watch?" You'll be blessed to get a additional adventitious on the big screen, as this decidedly funny, acceptable and alarming abbreviate finds an discreet and affecting way to appearance how akin we bodies are. All that, and a boastful slo-mo backflip, accompanied by Ode to Joy.