INT 3: Got You
For viewers left despondent by the picture of fractured human interactions in the Int 1 programme, then Int 3: Got You is the selection of films to resuscitate feelings of brotherhood, the broad theme being the very necessity of relationships with others. Kristian Ussing Andersen's charming Den Første Anders (The First Anders) (2010), for example, illustrates that while fathers may not necessarily always be full of the best advice or life lessons, it can also be just what the doctor ordered. Alternatively, while the actual parental figure in Patrick & Daneeta Loretta Jackson's Destiny Lives Down the Road is largely aloof or absent, it is the titular 17 year old protagonist who finds herself taking on the responsibilities of family life in post-credit crunch small town America.
Image: Destiny Lives Down the Road
A fraught relationship stuck on the rocks might be the launching point for Daniel Azancot's ¿Bailas? (Shall We Dance?) (2010) but, in spite of the apparent finality of the couple's eventual solution to their difficulties, their ultimate desire for renewal might offer hope after all. By contrast, while Katja Sambeth's Marichen (2010) reveals the importance of familial inter-dependency when its character desperately attempts to locate her lost child, it also comes to illustrate the accompanying despair and sinister side to this bond when presented with its absence. Meanwhile, Denis Rovira van Boekholt's semi-absurdist horror drama El Grifo (The Faucet) (2010), in which an elderly man alone in his daughter's house finds himself stuck to the kitchen tap, also ultimately goes to show our inescapable reliance on one another.
Image: ¿Bailas?
Also screening is Colm Quin's Needle Exchange (2010), a documentary focusing on the strength that can be discovered through shared experience with another, specifically two recovering former drug addicts who have forged an empowering bond through their shared love for tattooing, and FX Goby, Matthieu Landour and Clement Bolla's blackly comic The Elaborate End of Robert Ebb (2010) in which a well-meaning prank goes disastrously wrong
Image: Needle Exchange
