Otar Iosseliani Short Film Collection

Audaciously simple yet charmingly funny, Iosseliani’s early short films launched an ambitious style described as ‘a kind of cineballet with a neat formal logic’ that defines his later works. A portrait of a quarreling couple who finds a painting of their own house in an art museum, Aquarelle introduces an absurdist humour in daily life. Underscoring each scene with an ironic snatch of music and the comic effect of modified sounds, the almost wordless April effortlessly creates a fable on consumerism through a short romance drama. His first film made in France, Seven Pieces for Black and White Cinema, offers an ethnological gaze on the vibrant city life in Paris.

15/6 (Sun): Seminar with Li Cheuk-to and Derek Lam