Shorts: Invoke + Inspire

NEW DOCS

Spirituality, art, and memory collide in this ethereal and evocative program. Tarikat, directed by Jasmijn Schrofer, turns the trancelike rhythms and movements of Sufi chanting into a captivating visual poem that conveys the communal ebb and flow of a ritual quest for enlightenment. Golden Age, directed by Maija Blåfield, enigmatically blends and remixes language and character, landscape and country, in a self-proclaimed “documentation of remembering and forgetting” that pulls from 116 hours of footage the filmmaker shot over several decades. Figure, directed by Katarzyna Gondek, takes us on a dreamy journey through Poland as we follow the fabrication and transportation of a massive sculpture of Pope John Paul II. And Forever, Chinatown, directed by James Q. Chan, introduces us to San Francisco artist Frank Wong, whose exquisitely detailed dioramas of the Chinatown of his childhood serve as portals to the past in a rapidly changing San Francisco.

Directors

Jasmijn Schrofer, Maija Blåfield, Katarzyna Gondek, James Q. Chan

Release Year

2016

Festival Year

2016

Country

Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Belgium, United States

Run Time

78 minutes

Subtitled

Partially subtitled