Flyer
A flyer combines movement (flying) with something fixed (a handbill), and is thus simultaneously moving and stationary. The Flyer film program intends to intervene politically, become involved, inform and scandalize – all in short format. It is a political statement and a medial form of battle. It is a barbed and eye-catching means of presenting the demonstrative in a concise and often brusque way. It is almost never elaborated in detail, may be overly simplistic at times, and is always attached to the moment. It has something fleeting, yet it is always urgent. It is always agitation, and as a cultural practice it has enjoyed a long tradition.
Lily Chen • USA • 2013 • 10min • English | Ken Jacobs • USA • 2006 • 14min • no dialogue | Ken Jacobs • USA • 2006 • 3min • no dialogue |
anonymously • France • 1968 • 9min • French | Nina Wiesnagrotzki • Germany • 2012 • 6min • no dialogue | Nagisa Oshima • Japan • 1965 • 24min • Japanese |
Martha Coburn • USA • 2006 • 3min • English | Santiago Álvarez • Cuba • 1965 • 6min • no dialogue | Martin Reinhart, Katarina Matiasek • Austria • 1995 • 1min • no dialogue |
Margarida Rêgo • Portugal, UK • 2014 • 11min • Portuguese |