After eight years of activity, The short film program La Ruta Más Corta was suspended last December due to the pandemic. Its absence is now corrected with this new edition that changes dates, going from celebrating the winter solstice, to do it with the spring equinox. As usual, The Shortest Route will be celebrated with a program of screenings that will take place in various recreational spaces in the city of Valencia. This year three bookstores have been chosen: The First, that opened its doors in 2020, located in Guillem de Castro 106, Bangarang Books and Comics, also recently opened and located on Historiador Diago street 9, and the incombustible Bartleby Bookstore, to which the route returns after its first edition and which is located on Cádiz street 50.
The program for this edition of La Ruta is titled Special bodies, umbrella under which the organizers want us to reflect on the diversity of bodies, its variety, volatility, as well as the changes they undergo, whether for “natural or unexpected” reasons. The program has six very good examples of the possibilities of contemporary animation in short format. So we will see titles like Pussy de la polca Renata Gąsiorowska, where a young woman who spends the night alone at home decides to have a sweet pleasure session with herself, although not everything goes according to plan. Or the Swiss short Why slugs have no legs by Aline Höchli, which tells us why slugs don't have limbs. The session continues with the projection of Benign, work in stop-motion de los finlandeses Elli Vuorinen, Pinja Partanen and Jasmiini Ottelin, in which a lonely man learns to live with a tumor that has grown under his arm; Bloestraat 11 from Belgium Nienke Deutz, which tells us the story of two inseparable friends and the changes in their bodies during puberty., or the captivating Kids by the Swiss Michael Frei, a visual exercise that, in addition to the short, It consists of an installation and a video game in which we can experience how we behave when we are in a group. The Valencian presence will be carried out by Patchwork, multi-award-winning short film directed by María Manero and which features, with enormous sensitivity, the story of a woman, lol, who needed a new liver because his own ruptured.
To facilitate the presence of the largest possible audience, but respecting the restrictions imposed by health in terms of safety and capacity, The short films will be projected in the indicated spaces in a loop, from their opening to their closing. And if you can't make the appointment, you can see the shorts so on-line in larutamascorta.com You can't miss it!!!! G.LEON
