Mindwax

21/03/2024

We're beyond happy to share the news that Jaan Toomik's experimental short is travelling to Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen 2024! After Oberhausen, PÖFF Shorts and Short Waves, Nijmegen is a very well fitting next stop on our festival circuit!

"Two Men on Train and Someone Else" is a unique film, and we're proud that the programmes the film gets curated into also highlight this. Sometimes it's a programme about birth and death and the abstractness in between, another time it's about films beyond the boundaries of convention.

And this time it's a special programme "Kill Your Darlings" that's about films that divided the selection committee, but made it through by the power of the programmer(s) that fought for the inclusion of this film. Thank you, dear mystery curator person(s).

So peeps in the Netherlands and beyond, don't miss Go Short - 3-7 April) - and save the date for our film too: 6th April

Cannot wait!

https://www.goshort.nl/en/film/two-men-on-train-and-someone-else/

Allfilm

18/12/2023

✨🪰✨ Grazie mille Enrico Vannucci and the Talents and Short Film MarketTeam for having us over ✨🪰✨

Producer and strategist Dora Nedeczky advised shortfilmmakers after their quality pitches at TSFM this year. Discover the projects and their creators i the Book of Projects on the link at the end of this post.

Dora also shared her experience and journey in the Estonian film industry on the panel talk, realised and moderated by Enrico, titled “There’s an East wind coming – Producing short films in Eastern and Western Europe”.

Congrats TSFM Team for wrapping your 8th edition already, and see you soon!

Thank you Eesti Filmi Instituut / Estonian Film Institute for your kind support!

Torino Film Industry

Book of Projects: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NXVQjMyXN43_Seoajqp3qYnedYydJtqO/view

Panel close up photos: Letizia Mazzoleni

09/11/2023

One year on from Dr Moreau screening in PÖFF Shorts, you can watch the full film online!

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAJUVJ1794g 📺

Dr. Moreau (experimental, Hungary, 35mm / s8, 20 mins)
narrator: Roland Rába
directors: Péter Lichter Bori Máté
producer: Dora Nedeczky
executive producer: György Mór Kárpáti
DOP: Alina Vincze
writer: Márió Nemes Z.
sound design: Péter Terner
composer: Ádám Márton Horváth
production company: Mindwax

(experimental horror, Hungary, 35mm / s8, 20 mins)Dr. Moreau is an abstract eco-horror short by Péter Lichter and Bori Máté that invites the viewer to step i...

07/11/2023

⚡️ So much excitement these days around Jaan Toomik's latest short film "Two Men on Train and Someone Else", Mindwax's latest film festival distribution project produced by Allfilm

🌊 "Two Men..." is an elegiac farewell story that takes us to the world of old men getting ready to say their goodbyes to this enigmatic world. Each in their own bizarre way.

📍 Here's where you can catch this experimental gem that opened in this year's international competition programme of Oberhausen.

〰️SHORT WAVES - Off RAW / Out of Competition Programme
7th Nov, Tuesday – 20.00 - PIES andaluzyjski
https://shortwaves.pl/en/2023/10/off-short-waves-2/

"RAW is a completely new competition at the Short Waves Festival dedicated to films that go beyond the boundaries of convention, seeking styles, techniques, and storytelling methods previously unfamiliar to the audience. It is a competition for filmmakers aspiring to break the rules in their own style, demonstrating that the world of short cinema is a space for innovation and courage."

🐺 PÖFF SHORTS - National Competition Programme 2
8th Nov, Wednesday - 17:00 - Hall 1 Kino Artis
https://shorts.poff.ee/en/film/shorts-national-competition-2/

"As sure as the Estonian forests are green and the winters harsh yet beautiful – the best Estonian shorts have a certain indefinable magic. It’s always ironic that a nation that can often be (unfairly) maligned for a certain aloofness, can count on fiction, doc, and animation filmmakers with their achingly compassionate, persistently quirky, and defiantly humane shorts.
The 2023 National Competition takes us from birth to death with the usual intricacies of love and conflict, with abstractness in between. The past, present, and future of both Estonia and humanity are all explored as realism, magic, elegant monochrome and a rainbow of colours unfurl before us."

PÖFF Shorts
Short Waves

05/11/2023

We had our Baltic premiere last night! We're beyond happy and honoured that Kellele ma naeratan? / Who am I Smiling For? that we co-produced was selected to the biggest sub-festival of the PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival dedicated to children's and youth film, Just Film. The film is screened within the festival's children's rights programme.

Kellele ma naeratan? / Who am I Smiling For?, a documentary directed by Eeva Mägi, produced by Kristofer Piir of Allfilm is a story about the strength of motherly love and a mother's fight for her children literally to her last breath. It’s a film about the coming of age of a boy amidst deep and irreversible changes, while trying to find his own way to mourn and understand the world.

Our film festival journey started at the 53rd Giffoni Film Festival and we couldn't possibly have a better follow up as Just Film. It's a festival that aims to help young people better understand and be more empathetic towards the world around them. I whole-heartedly agree and support this ethos, so this is why yesterday's screening is especially an important milestone as Kellele ma naeratan? / Who am I Smiling For? OPENED the festival.

Here are the rest of our screening times during PÖFF:

8th Nov, Wednesday - Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza - 19:00 (with Q&A)
16th Nov, Thursday - Tartu Elektriteater - 17:00

Kellele ma naeratan? / Who am I Smiling For? (2023, Estonia, 60')
Director & Screenwriter: Eeva Mägi
Narrator & Co-Writer: Oliver Cypriano
Director of Photography: Sten-Johan Lill, ESC
Editor: Kersti Miilen
Sound Designer: Ranno Tislar
Composer: Tanel Kadalipp
Re-recording Mixer: Gabriel Solis
Producer Kristofer Piir
Co-Producer: Dora Nedeczky

27/10/2023

Truly a pleasure to be part of , spreading the co-production gospel and even case-studying ‘s upcoming

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27/03/2023

We’ve been silent because there are exciting projects cooking! 🥁 Producer Dora Nedeczky is co-producing Eeva Mägi’s first feature length hybrid documentary “Who Am I Smiling For?” alongside producer Kristofer Piir of Allfilm, Estonia.

We have just finished finalising the film, so beyond happy to be selected for the 20th East Silver Market, that’s held at the East Doc Platfrom in Prague, organised by the Institute of Documentary Film.

In addition to the selection to the programme the film has also been nominated for the Silver Eye Award! ⚡️

We’re looking forward to pitch the film on the market on the 28th of March - tomorrow already!

Thank you Eesti Filmi Instituut / Estonian Film Institute for supporting our participation! ✨

More info: https://businessdoceurope.com/east-silver-market-at-the-east-doc-platform-2023/

19/02/2023

Such a beautiful experience - Dora Nedeczky was the producer tutor for the Midpoint Shorts programme 2022/2023 that culminated at When East Meets West. Here are a few shots from the last workshop in Trieste, the last chance to work together on script and project development.

Hugely grateful to each and every one the projects and participants:

⚡️ Certificate of Life ( .inimalproduction )
⚡️ We Are Having A Boy ( )
⚡️ The Big Night ( )
⚡️ Welcome Home ( )
⚡️ Honey of War ( .studio )

Huge thanks also to MIDPOINT Institute , the guest tutors ( ) and Midpoint head of studies Pavel Marek.

Check out the latest Midpoint showcase in Berlin tomorrow, if you’re in town! (20th Febr. 4pm Gropius Bau 2nd floor.)

More info about the Shorts Programme:

https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/en/detail/midpoint-shorts-2022-2023-9Mg1Nx

Applications for next year will open in the Spring.

16/01/2023

Mini-Motion Pictures! Peter Strickland! Retrospective!

“delve into the deliciously surreal and corporeal worlds of seminal filmmaker…”

Very excited to be part of this short film retrospective at London Short Film Festival this year. We got a lot done in the last five years, now we look back at it.

Buy your tickets now, London folks, see some films and ask Peter weird questions on the Q&A!

Save the date:

Curzon Soho
27/01/2023 - 21.00
https://shortfilms.org.uk/programme/peter-strickland-mini-motion-pictures-qa/



Cold Meridian GUO4

14/11/2022

So honoured we could screen many of our beloved shorts directed by Peter Strickland at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival! For instance Cold Meridian (2020) and GUO4 (2019), that actually had their regional premieres at the festival's earlier editions.

BIG THANK YOU !

Το Φεστιβάλ υποδέχεται έναν ένας από τους πιο ενδιαφέροντες, ριζοσπαστικούς και ιδιοσυγκρασιακούς σκηνοθέτες της τελευταίας δεκαπενταετίας.…

01/11/2022

Köszi Filmhu - a magyar moziportál!

A Lichter Péter és Máté Bori rendezésében készült Dr. Moreau című öko-horror rövidfilm a 2022. november 11-27. között megrendezésre kerülő 26. Tallinn Black Nights Filmfesztiválon mutatkozhat be először a közönségnek. A filmet a fesztivál a ‘Rebels With A Cause’ nevű ver...

27/10/2022

🎯 Three words: Powerful. Short. Projects.

After many weeks of selection process and an inspiring online session back in September here are the participants of MIDPOINT Shorts 2022-2023!

We are so happy and proud that our CEO and producer Dora Nedeczky joined MIDPOINT Institute as their producer tutor for this program.

We cannot wait to continue the work with the 5 short film project teams IRL in Prague and eventually in Trieste within When East Meets West!

More info about our participants and the Shorts program here: https://www.midpoint-institute.eu/.../midpoint-shorts...

25/10/2022

🗞 We've been silent because we had SO MUCH GOING ON!

🦎 One of the good news is that we've finished our latest short film by Péter Lichter and Bori Máté, called Dr. Moreau! It's an abstract piece set in a world where human and nature as separate categories don't exist.

Following on the directors' growing found footage legacy, this too has recycled imagery in its core, but this time colliding with new 35mm and s8 footage shot by Alina Vincze.

🤫 We're in a beyond celebratory mood, that's connected to our world premiere, we'll soon be able to share with you too!

🪲 Until then here's are some making of shots about our re-recording sessions with our narrator Roland Rába, and our brilliant sound designer, Péter Terner, who alone built up the soundscape of our 20 minutes film. Plus a still, bc we like to tease!

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01/08/2022

Such an honour to be a mentor at this year’s workshop! 🙌 Was happy to share my experience on international co-production and independent filmmaking and to also advise on a number of projects in ohr one-on-one meetings.

Posted • Recap to our wonderful class last week with prestigious and well-experienced producers from and Erika Tarr about Co-Producing with Hungary. Thanks a lot for this awesome multi-channeled Seminar.

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg Goethe-Institut Budapest FAMU International Prague
and or wonderful Teams and Mentors.

04/07/2022

💆‍♀️ Cold Meridian X Design Museum 💆‍♀️
Our beloved ASMR short will open the upcoming podium talk 'Sonic Impact: The Psychology of Sound' that's part of the Design Museum's current exhibition WEIRD SENSATION FEELS GOOD: The World of ASMR. What a thrilling match! 🎞

The live conversation will be between the Creative Director of Sound for The Guardian Podcasts Axel Kacoutié, ASMR researcher and Psychology Lecturer Dr Giulia Poerio, sound designer Joel Cahen and the director Cold Meridian, Peter Strickland.

SAVE THE DATE:

5th of July / 18.30 - 20.00 GMT
More info and tickets:

https://designmuseum.org/whats-on/talks-courses-and-workshops/sonic-impact-the-psychology-of-sound

Join established ASMR researcher and Psychology Lecturer Dr Giulia Poerio, acclaimed Director Peter Strickland and sound designer Joel Cahen as they discuss personal philosophies that focus on the mechanics, perception and effects of sound.

23/05/2022

We're so honoured to be back to Vienna Shorts, one of our most favourite film festivals! This time we'll present the first part of Péter Lichter and Bori Máté's abstract horror opus The Philosophy of Horror called Etymology.

The film will be screened in the programme (FOUND) FOOTAGE II, which is part of this year’s focus, We’ve Come A Long Long Way Together. The programme is a glance at current works that deal with (Found) Footage.

"In part II, North Koreans report their experiences watching forbidden foreign films, and we marvel at 8 mm footage from Yugoslavia and explore archival material and semi-historical accounts from Ukraine. A split screen playfully familiarizes us with the process of sound design by way of asynchronous realities, while overpainted footage hits us with some true horrors." curator Doris Bauer

Read more about the festival's focus here and browse through the programme here, and good news for friends who can't attend in person, that films will be available online too for 10 days!

https://www.viennashorts.com/en/program/expedition/focus

This year’s focus of VIENNA SHORTS points the spotlight at our collective wealth of experience — at moving images and movies that move us: films that have accumulated in the archives as our memory’s raw material and have been interacting with the memories, perceptions, and interpretations ...

12/05/2022

After our latest stop at Riga IFF 2Annas not long ago we're already off to Beldocs - Меđunarodni festival dokumentarnog filma with our film Happiness is a Journey!

Very excited to premiere the film in South-Eastern Europe finally! Its screening will take place in the "Fireworks" section of the festival on 16.05.2022. 17.00 - SAVE THE DATE!

https://www.beldocs.rs/en/product-category/fireworks/

Multi-colored film explosions that constitute this program exhibit powerful, breathtaking and exceptionally cinematic esthetic approaches.

09/04/2022

Very excited about the Open Air screening of our short doc Happiness is a Journey by directors Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan at the 34. Filmfest Dresden at 6pm today! 📽⛱

Happiness Is A Journey can be watched as part of the programme "Shorts 10" - WORK LIFE (IM)BALANCE. Congrats to the rest of the film teams, and it's so nice to see some familiar faces! 🥰

Shorts 10 - WORK LIFE (IM)BALANCE - 4th April (today) 18.00

PHLEGM
Switzerland | 2021 | Fiction | 6:24 min
Director Jan-David Bolt

A DAY’S WORK
Germany/Myanmar | 2021 |
Documentary, Experimental | 13 min
Director Max Kerkhoff

ES MUSS
IT MUST
Switzerland | 2021 | Fiction | 18:13 min
Director Jumana Issa, Flavio Luca Marano

HAPPINESS IS A JOURNEY
USA/Estonia | 2021 | Documentary,
Experimental | 12:21 min
Director Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas

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04/04/2022

Our short film Happiness is a Journey continues its.. well... journey on the festival circuit with our beloved Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen ☀️

Directors Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan's film is part of the programme called "Working in Late Capitalism"

"When capitalism emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries, it was expected to be the solution to economic inequality across the globe. Rather than being the source of societal wealth, however, capitalism in the 21st century entered a stage of absurdity with overpowered companies and extreme inequalities (that are still growing). This programme shows how the capitalist ideology is definitely not profiting the working class, and how the effects of the world’s dominant economic system harm individuals in both their daily and working lives."

SAVE THE DATES:
4th April, Monday (today) - 21.00 - LUX 3
9th April, Saturday - 13.45 - LUX 3

For more details of the programme and tickets visit:
https://www.goshort.nl/en/film/happiness-is-a-journey/

Thank you dear programming team for including us!

On the night before Christmas a warehouse of disparate workers processes newspapers for delivery, before…

03/02/2022

Screenings | Market Meetings | Q&A-s | bumping into friends not seen in person for years - almost forgot what a film festival is like! Thank you so much Eesti Filmi Instituut / Estonian Film Institute for making this happen! 🗞 Happiness is a Journey Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market

17/01/2022

2021 was an incredible year for our beloved short film GUO4 directed by Peter Strickland. We're so delighted that even though we produced the film in 2019 with such a tiny crew and so limited resources, two years later it's still being discovered by new audiences and acknowledged by film festivals that are so dear to us. Here's the three most cherished GUO4 memories we have from last year out of many:

🥀 Altered Innocence included GUO4 in its compilation "Altered Innocence Vol. 1." along with films from auteurs we appreciate so much, for instance Thank you Frank Jaffe for the opportunity!

🌈 We had our US premiere at the 45th edition of Frameline Festival the world's biggest LGBTQ+ film festival as part of their “Dark Twisted Fantasies” short program online and in San Francisco, big thank you Joe Bowman and Lindsey Hodgson for having us!

💗 We had our German premiere at 33. Filmfest Dresden's "SERIOUSLY! WTF?" section (!) curated by wonderful Anne Gaschütz and Daniel Vadocký.

Long live short films!

23/12/2021

🌲🗞✨ Getting into the Christmas spirit here, so we’re most happy and exciting to share our short doc Happiness is a Journey with you! ✨🗞🌲 The film is now online at The Guardian for a limited time. Accompanied by extra bonus contextualising gentrification article from one of the directors.

article: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2021/dec/21/gentrification-destroyed-the-san-francisco-i-knew-austin-is-next )

film:
https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2021/dec/21/happiness-is-a-journey-the-hidden-life-of-an-american-warehouse-worker-video







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Warehouse workers in Austin, Texas, work through the night to process newspapers for delivery before Christmas. In this impressionistic documentary, visual artists and film-makers Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan follow Eddie ‘Bear’ Lopez at the Austin American-Statesman newspaper printing wareho...

13/12/2021

What a mind-blowing festival! Thank you again Kinoskop - Festival analognog filma for selecting our film Cold Meridian directed by Peter Strickland.

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Posted • KINOSKOP 2021 SELECTION 1
FICTION : SUBJECTIVE REALITIES
curated by Nikola Gocić

"A serious contender for the most diversified program unit in this year’s selection is certainly Fiction whose eclecticism reflects the festival’s restless spirit. "

For more detailed info about the selection, and the festival, please visit our website:

https://www.kinoskop.co/selection-1-fiction.php

and the full text by the selection's curator Nikola Gocić you can read on our page

PROGRAM

• Death Valley - Grace Sloan | 2021 | 10:57 | USA | 16mm
• Nosokomeion - Félix Caraballo | 2021 | 5:02 | Canada | 16mm
• Cold Meridian - Peter Strickland | 2020 | 6:47 | Hungary | 16mm, Super 8
• A Castle in Spain - Max Belmessieri | 2020 | 19:00 | France | Super 8
• Alizava - Andrius Žemaitis | 2020 | 39:00 | Lithuania | 16mm

08/12/2021

⚡️Thank you so much Torino Short Film Market for inviting us to participate in your hybrid 6th edition IN PERSON!⚡️ What an inspiring, vibrant and still very personal hub you’ve created and the rest of the team! We’re already back to our quarters but happy to enjoy the market for some days more online!

16/11/2021

🐺 Finally the day of our Baltic premiere has come! 🐺 Dear Tallinn peeps and PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival / PÖFF Shorts guests, come and see our short doc Happiness is a Journey that premiered in Locarno today at 18.15 at Kino Artis.

The film is part of the international live action competition, and our programme is largely whirling around the concept of labour:

"While the pandemic is touched upon in the programme, the films here remind us that the everyday struggles of humanity still go on. There are loves to be found and hearts to be broken. There are corporations to fight and death to confront. There are mysteries to solve and joy and laughter to be had."

cannot wait to watch the rest of the films!

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HAPPINESS IS A JOURNEY (US-EST, 12 mins, 2021)
directors: Ivete Lucas & Patrick Bresnan
featuring: Eddie "Bear" Lopez
produced by Patrick Bresnan
co-producers: Dora Nedeczky, Ike No Koi
DOP: Patrick Bresnan
editing: Ivete Lucas
sound design: Eric Friend
associate producer: Shakira Refos
titles & poster design: Mette Mari Kaljas

tickets & more info:

https://shorts.poff.ee/en/film/shorts-live-action-competition-1/?fbclid=IwAR0apRSjtX3sQ6mQR8xo1OzSVDPNMEWZJpY9ilaU_6CLRwt5-LpsTVZwd-c

The world still feels small. Even though many of us are moving into some sort of normality – whatever ‘normal’ is nowadays – the endless stretches of isolation and distancing have conspired to make life seem more constrained and fragile. Yet cinema – and the films in the PÖFF Shorts Inter...

15/11/2021

⚡ We're so thrilled to announce that our film The Philosophy of Horror - Part I. / Etymology was selected to interfilm Berlin!!! ⚡

The festival kicks off tomorrow and our experimental short directed by Péter Lichter and Bori Máté can be watched as part of this year's special Hungarian Focus. Such an honour to screen together with the finest Hungarian shorts from the recent years, with many of them being our personal favourites! ❤

Congrats for the rest of the filmmakers and big thank you to Bori Nagy for the curation and for the Interfilm team, especially Matti Swiec!

The Philosophy of Horror - Part I. / Etymology is the Hungarian programme 02 "Event of Dire Portent" screening at:
19th November, 2021 - 18:30h, Babylon 2
21th November, 2021 - 18:00h, ACUD Kino

Save the date!

Here’s more info on the programme:

https://www.interfilm.de/en/interfilm-festival-2021/program/detail/?tx_interfilmfestival_sectionlist%5Bevent%5D=442&cHash=7d178e532c19468b037c5163a581d172

04/11/2021

It's been exactly two years since we premiered our beloved experimental feature Üres lovak / Empty Horses about the two Hungarian director geniuses, Michael Curtiz and Gábor Bódy! Quite interesting to think back to our pre-covid screenings in Budapest, Jihlava and Rotterdam and covid era screenings like New York and Beijing. AAAAND... we're so so happy that it'll now be presented to the Bucharest audiences in the frames of 15. Hungarian Film Week after such a long break! WE MISSED IT!!!

SAVE THE DATE:

ÜRES LOVAK / EMPTY HORSES by Péter Lichter
67 mins experimental film (2019) with Romanian subtitles
9th November, 16:00
Romanian Peasant Museum Cinema Hall / Román Parasztmúzeum moziterem

Thank you for the opportunitiy Institutul Liszt București / Liszt Intézet Bukarest and dear Magdolna Csegedi!

Here's more info on the film week along with its schedule:

https://culture.hu/hu/bucuresti/esemenyek/15-bukaresti-magyar-filmhet-2

2021. november 7–14. között tizenötödik alkalommal szervezzük meg a Bukaresti Magyar Filmhetet, mely Intézetünk márkanevévé vált rendezvénye. A filmművészet bukaresti kedvelői már tudják és várják november második hetét, hiszen ez a magyar film ünnepe a román fővárosban.