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Jury Programme: Faiyaz Jafri

Natural Plastic

Faiyaz Jafri | United States | 2010 | 2 min

The slightly disturbing film Natural Plastic is a metaphor for the delicate balance between man and nature. We watch a face slowly but surely overgrown with plants. The director, who also composed the film’s soundtrack, perfectly connects disgustingly detailed images with his own parody on kitsch.

Hello Bambi

Faiyaz Jafri | United States | 2011 | 7 min

This film, which in its time fascinated audiences at dozens of festivals, portrays Snow White’s last dream that she has during her way to the emergency room. The director uses CGI animation in his own way and is equally original content-wise. The girl’s surrealist dream is swarming with altered and deformed Walt Disney characters.

Baby, I Love You

Faiyaz Jafri | United States | 2013 | 3 min | EN

In this short but all the more peculiar film, the director – as is his habit – mixed morbid images with a parody on kitsch. He chose a very distinctive visual style using shiny smooth surfaces reflecting their surroundings. We watch a girl confronted with her dark side.

Disconnector

Faiyaz Jafri | United States, Hong Kong SAR China | 2014 | 7 min | EN | EN titulky

This film depicts a bored couple who come across a discotheque simulator that reignites their relationship and gives them real pleasure. But this visual spectacle has a different, darker message. It reflects the relationships of Hong Kong couples whose communication isn’t personal or physical, but virtual.

This Ain't Disneyland

Faiyaz Jafri | Hong Kong SAR China | 2015 | 7 min

Jafri’s personal statement on the 9/11 attacks puts his favourite Bambi fawns into the context of this tragedy…He explains his intention with the following words: “This film is not about the big conspiracies, terrorism, fundamentalism, hate or love. This film is about how close, good and bad, wrong and right, innocence and perversion can be. This is my film about my twin towers and how I miss them.”

Sway

Faiyaz Jafri | Hong Kong SAR China | 2016 | 9 min

Sway is a non-narrative film celebrating human hair and musical immersion. This time, Jafri turned his attention away from his favourite smooth and shiny surfaces and portrayed dancing bodies covered with hair from head to toe. The dance of these strange fuzzballs transforms into abstract images of various colours.

Miller Fisher

Faiyaz Jafri | Hong Kong SAR China | 2016 | 9 min

Miller Fisher amalgamates the distorted visual, physical and existential experience of an autoimmune disorder by the same name, with the aesthetics and vernacular of the animated GIF. We find ourselves in an artistically specific 3D world known from the author’s previous works as “hyper-unrealism.”

Amoricania

Faiyaz Jafri | United States | 2017 | 6 min

Amoricania is a provocative depiction of America in which the director connects various neo-archetypes into post-modern and often abstract collages. Jafri describes his colourful breakneck ride as “hyperreality rendered in hyper-unrealism.”