Formerly people told themselves stories. Since 2500 years they are shown us - in the theater, paintings & sculpting, music, dancing, literature, architecture and in cinema. They are everywhere and for everyone in the atmosphere – as it were we have inhaled them. In the 20th century mankind has disassembled the structures, assembled them like a puzzle again and destroyed them, too – Homo Ludens has begun to play with it. After World War II art was absurd because people lost their worth they used to follow. Nowadays the common person has no relation to art anymore. Even the experts can’t help us when they observe an artwork. We can watch TV but can’t repair. We aren’t curious anymore like people used to be when they disassembled a radio for the first time and we even have no time because the watching TV takes it all away. If our TV gets broken we buy a new one, we don’t get the idea to have a look inside it – but through the new technology it actually can’t broke anymore.
Cinema is the seventh and the last kind of art and has begun with short films because the former technology offered no possibilities to produce longer films. Throughout the world there are maybe a handful people who are making cinema and whose work can be called art, because we don’t doze off during watching them. These got very rare. So there are just a few of 90-minute films remaining that are useful for mankind. And their makers have started with shorts.
Short films give us the possibility to recognize all kinds of the structures that we met. Every filmmaker has got his own aura, his own way to show us what is need to shown and they are doing this not in a long but in a very short way. Short films have no time for filling materials, no time to deceive, no time for illusions. They are true. So let’s enjoy that at least some of them mirror us and if not, we enjoy that we didn’t waste too much time by watching a film whose story wants to lull us. After a few minutes we wake up again!
That’s our story and if we were happy, we wouldn’t have one.
