International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

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27 April – 2 May 2027

Swerve

TitleSwerve
DirectorLynne Sachs
CountryUSA
Year2022
ColorColour
GenreExperimental, Documentary
Duration00:07:28
Festival year2023
CompetitionsInternational Competition
Online rentalNo
On-Site rentalYes

Wearing the tell-tale masks of our daunting now, five New York City performers search for a meal in a Queens market while speaking in verse. The film itself transforms into an ars poetica/cinematica, a meditation on writing and making images in the liminal space between a global pandemic and what might come next. Inspired by Filipinx-American Paolo Javier’s Original Brown Boy poems.

FormatsLanguageU/TSound
DCPEnglishEnglishStereo
BluRayEnglishEnglishStereo
DVDEnglishEnglishStereo