Now the fifth Desert Dust Cinema – our short film festival in the former ghost town called Lobo – is over. Again, these were intense days of organizing, working, dancing and hanging-around-in-the-sun.
This short documentation can only show some aspects of a special weekend for all who have been involved. A big thanks to everyone, especially to our guests from far away and our partners at “Tales from the Trash”.
The fourth Desert Dust Cinema in Lobo/Texas had 34 international short films screened in two programs on two nights. For the first time since many years, the area of the kidneyshaped pool near the former motel was part of our illuminated festival ground.
After the screenings we had performances by Oortstorm, Jalin Malin, Gary Bear, Elegant Rabies, Eric Schlappi, Igloo Martian, Good Times Great Oldies, Ben Scheffler & XNOR and DJ Kate. Again, a big ‘thank you’ to all participating filmmakers, musicians and all our friends, neighbors and new guests – hope to meet you again next time.
“They have retired” is part of this year’s shortfilm section of the LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International, a festival showcasing an excellent and diverse program on the big screen. Our clip will be screened at 10pm on Friday, March 20 in the very nice Cantate-Saal, a special location for the screenings of all shorts in 2015.
Unfortunately neither me nor Bertram Ritter will attend the screening for the interview after the end of the program – quite a pity as it would have been interesting to have a talk about what is really going on in our latest work. But of course we’re both happy to be a part of the selection of this festival.
Watch the trailer for the shortfilm program 2015: