When you work all the time sometimes you neglect to blog. But when blogging is your job sometimes you just neglect blogging on your own weblog. I still have that 8-14 job, but as soon as I get home I start writing entries for our new music weblog, which we launched last week. So honestly, inbetween blogging there and working I haven't done a lot, which has been worth writing about here.

But I will mention the Short Film Festival we went to this Sunday. I had booked tickets for two collections of short films called Int7 and Int9, because they were international collections as opposed to the collections of Danish shorts. When I studies Media Science we had a short film class, so we got a chance to make our own short and watch a lot of them as well. And I think the two series we saw Sunday gave a good impression of both how different short films can be from each other, but also how different they can be from feature length movies. A lot of them were mainly about style, but a couple had really good stories, which really hit home because of their simplicity.

The one I liked the best of all the movies was called The Chinese Wall and was about an elderly woman, who eats alone in a Chinese restaurant. She looks at the other guests and imagines what their lives must be like. She's a bit depressed, so her bleak outlook on life spills over into the way she imagines the lives of these people, which makes the movie depressing and a little annoying. But the brilliant part is that towards the end of the movie she tells her waiter that it's her birthday (a lie) and the waiter then brings her a large birthday cake. It's too large for her to eat alone, so she invites the other guests to join her. As they join her it is revealed that none of the things she imagined about them were true and then they all sit happily together and eat cake. The movie ends with a guy entering the restaurant to pick up some take-out and as he waits he looks at the large group of guests sitting together eating cake and starts imagining (erroneously of course) what their life as a large family must be like.

I really liked that movie because the whole thing about making up stories about the lives of strangers is something I usually do, when I'm in a café or some place like that (it's even more fun if you can ping-pong the story with someone else). And I thought the way the movie went from depressing to uplifting towards the end (with the koda of the newcomer continuing the story) was very nicely thought out.

The short At Dawning featuring Jenny Agutter about a woman trying to leave an apartment, while a man is trying to commit suicide in front of the bedroom window was very good as well. And so was the Swedish short Malcolm about a guy, who's life has fallen apart.
But the funniest one was Tomatoheads, which didn't really have a story. The thing that made it funny was that the actors were hanging upside down throughout the whole movie, which made their faces rather red (thus the title), but the camera was flipped so it looked like they weren't upside down. They just did everyday things, but it was fun watching them trying to pour red wine and eat spaghetti while gravity messed with them.

Unfortunately, these movies are hard to find and aren't available online, so I guess if you want to see them (or movies like them) you'll have to try a seek out a short film festival in your area.

This week will have a bit more to offer entertainment-wise as I'm going out to see a bunch of stand-up comedians (including Lasse Rimmer) at Gaz Station Tuesday night. I haven't seen comedy there before, but it's a good line-up, so it'll probably be quite good.
And Wednesday we're headed out to see local team AGF, who have lost the last five games, play AB, who have lost the last eight (talk about your clash of titans). AGF have just hired a new coach, so hopefully he'll be able to turn things around.