{"id":74199,"date":"2022-01-29T20:29:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/how-oscar-short-film-contenders-told-stories-of-human-psyche-and-secret-police\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:01:07","slug":"the-oscar-short-film-contestants-told-stories-about-human-psyche-secret-police-and-other-human-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/the-oscar-short-film-contestants-told-stories-about-human-psyche-secret-police-and-other-human-subjects\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oscar Short Film Contestants Told Stories about Human Psyche, Secret Police and Other Human Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cBestia\u201dHugo Covarrubias, director, and Tevo Diaz, producer joined \u201cCoded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker\u201dRyan White, director \u201cLynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day\u201d director Christine Turner; \u201cThe Criminals\u201d director Serhat Karaaslan; and \u201cThe Musician\u201d director Reza Riahi and producer Eleanor Coleman for \u2019s awards season discussion on some of the short films that made this year\u2019s Oscars Shortlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turner\u2019s \u201cLynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day\u201d looks back at the history of lynching in America through the ways they\u2019ve been documented on souvenir postcards from 1880 to 1968.<\/p>\n

Turner described how Turner said that photographers would take photos of the lynchings to create postcards which people could send to their family and friends. She claims that although the imagery was a. \u201cgraphic,\u201d she tried to focus viewers\u2019 eyes on the amount of people attending the lynchings and the fact that families were there, rather than the lynching itself, to properly contextualize the point in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going beyond the brutality of the body itself, but that is also part of what I want viewers to confront,\u201dShe spoke. \u201cThe imagery, in some ways, really speaks for itself, and I wanted viewers to have to reckon and with that, and therefore reckon with our history and hopefully, come to a better understanding about our present as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cCoded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker\u201dAnother documentary that reveals the hidden messages in J.C. Leyendecker’s advertising work, a queer artist who was one the most well-known American artists of the 20th Century, is available here. History has been largely ignored.<\/p>\n

Ryan White, Director, talked about how Leyendecker subtly used homoerotic imagery to engage the LGBTQ+ community in his advertisements. White explained that the film’s core is a documentary. \u201clove story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s somewhat of a tragic love story, in the sense that, just as J.C. Leyendecker was coding his imagery in his advertisements in the sort of secret language speaking to the gay community, his relationship as well, was coded and hidden in a way,\u201dHe said. Because there wasn\u2019t much of a visual record of Leyedecker\u2019s life, the short film was partially animated to tell a complete story.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBestia\u201dIt is a stop motion film that depicts Ingrid’s life as a secret agent in Chile’s military dictatorship. The film explores her relationship to everything, from her dog, to her personal fears.<\/p>\n

Inside every beast lives a victim,\u201d Covarrubias said. I believe that in this case, Ingrid\u2026 is also a kind of victim of the totalitarian machine that reigned in Chile in the \u201970s during the military dictatorship, so we think so much about the banality of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Musician\u201dThis is also a stop motion short made from paper cutouts. It follows a couple from ancient Persia, who are separated by an attack earlier in life, but reunite when the musician is invited to perform at Mongol castle, where the woman he is in love has been kept.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the thing that really resonates is the resilience of people,\u201dColeman. \u201cThe resilience of artists, the resilience of musicians, the resilience of regular citizens who undergo unbelievable trauma and continue to make their art. That\u2019s exactly what happens to this main character. In that way, \u2018The Musician\u2019 is a link to people today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Criminals\u201dThis is a story about a young couple who tries to book a room in a hotel to spend the night together. It takes place in late night in Turkey. They try to get around the restrictions after they are refused entry to any hotels because they do not have a marriage certificate. As a result, the film devolves into a commentary on surveillance and hypocrisy as well as freedom. Director Serhat Karaslan claims that the title of his film is a \u201cgift\u201dTheir translators, since the original title was not the same, but renaming it \u201cThe Criminals\u201dPeople who are judging the young couple should also be held accountable for their morality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe liked [the title] because it\u2019s questioning who are the criminals,\u201d Karaaslan explained. \u201cIt makes it ironic and it makes it more meaningful when there\u2019s no crime. And in the film, there\u2019s no crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can see an excerpt of the panel below. Click to view the complete panel. Here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBestia\u201dHugo Covarrubias, director, and Tevo Diaz, producer joined \u201cCoded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker\u201dRyan White, director \u201cLynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day\u201d director Christine Turner; \u201cThe Criminals\u201d director Serhat Karaaslan; and \u201cThe Musician\u201d director Reza Riahi and producer Eleanor Coleman for \u2019s awards season discussion on some of the short films that made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":74200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/How-Oscar-Short-Film-Contenders-Told-Stories-of-Human-Psyche.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}