In honor of our fifteenth anniversary, we have curated a selection of short films from the Full Frame vault, a title from each year of the festival. The fourteen shorts will screen in three separate programs.

Vault Three features Metacarpus from the 2007 festival, Bitter and Sweet from the 2001 festival, A Love Supreme from the 2002 festival, Seltzer Works from the 2010 festival, Breadmakers from the 2008 festival, and Leche from the 1999 festival. Films are listed in screening order. The total running time is 76 minutes.

Metacarpus
Directed by Nicole Triche
2006 / US / 8 minutes
Musicians, doctors, and others sing the praises of their hands. A collage of insight and image portrays this special limb’s beauty and diverse utility, its development and distinctive form.

Bitter and Sweet
Directed by Johanna Lee
2000 / US / 10 minutes
Witness a day at an acupuncture shop in New York’s Chinatown. A delightful, affectionate portrait of both a business and a marriage.

A Love Supreme
Directed by Nilesh Patel
2001 / UK / 10 minutes
In this stunning and elegant tribute, Nilesh Patel pays homage to his aging mother as he captures the beauty and artistry of her life’s work: making samosas.

Seltzer Works
Directed by Jessica Edwards
2010 / US / 7 minutes
Regular consumers are a rare breed but the dedicated owner of Gomberg Seltzer Works in Brooklyn takes great pride in creating real throat-tingling spritz.

Breadmakers
Directed by Yasmin Fedda
2007 / UK / 11 minutes
At the Garvald Bakery, a team of workers with mental disabilities prepare bread for all of Edinburgh. The participants, each in their own way, contribute to the rhythm of this choreographed effort.

Leche
Directed by Naomi Uman
1998 / Mexico, US / 30 minutes
A dreamlike evocation of a dairy farm in Mexico through a textured film surface—the filmmaker develops her film in buckets. A document of a timeless place and the magic of crafting things by hand.