Canadian Premiere
An aspiring con-artist works on his craft.
Supported by
Community Partner
Dianne Wulf-Mahoney, Constantine Grechko
Canada
2022
English
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Credits
Screenwriter
Ryan Leedu
Cinematography
Tom Gunia
Production Design
Brianna Kolybaba
Director
Ryan Leedu
Ryan is an emerging filmmaker from Edmonton, AB, in Treaty 6 territory, in the Canadian prairies. Inspired by filmmakers as diverse as Kiarostami, Godard, Kieślowski, Varda, Wenders, Yang, Miranda July, and Claire Denis, Ryan has a broad array of cinematic influences. He is interested in films that are patient, stylistically and narratively innovative, and, above all, rooted in a sense of time and place that is socially/artistically/politically relevant to the present. From slow-burning films about generational societal shifts of the New Taiwanese Cinema to the iconoclastic experiments of the French New Wave, Ryan is interested in all things cinema and the moving image.
VIFF Short Forum
See more shorts in this series
Short Forum 1: The Scarier One
The return of scary: fear in all its chilling, suspenseful, and unsettling shades.
Short Forum 2: Anthropomaxx
Dogs, frogs, hogs, and more!
Short Forum 3: Workers of the World
The grind of the working class in a system that betrays its promises.
Short Forum 4: Immanence: A Life
You don’t have to look far; life is beautiful!
Short Forum 5: Somewhere Else
If space and time are pure perception, let’s build them differently.
Short Forum 6: Archive Lives!
Before anything becomes archival, it’s lived.
Short Forum 7: War at Home
Truly, no one is safe until everyone is safe.
Short Forum 8: Queer Magic
Do you believe in magic?
Short Forum 9: Big Time Sensuality
Explorations of desire and intimacy serve both pain and pleasure.
Short Forum 10: Are the Kids Alright?
The future kinda depends on it.