Venice Horizons: Jose Luis Guerin, Paul Morrissey and Sion Sono

I’m adding the make-up of the Venice Film Festival Horizons sidebar selections a little late to the site, I’m mostly curious to see the low ratio of films that’ll be picked up from this section for the upcoming TIFF announcements. Deemed as re-branding of the section, a more eclectic melange of titles mixing short, medium length pics, documentaries film and feature length items, of the items that will generate the most interest are the opening and closing titles which were revealed the week before, but we should see media coverage mentions on Paul Morrissey’s News From Nowhere, Jose Luis Guerin’s docu Guest (I’ve yet to see 2007/2008’s In the City of Sylvia) and Sion Sono’s Cold Fish and short film offerings from Guillermo Arriaga, Isaac Julien and Clara Law.

HORIZONS: FEATURE-LENGTH WORKS
“Sleeping Beauty,” Catherine Breillat (France, opener)
“Oki’s Movie,” Hong Sang-soo (South Korea, closer)
“The Nine Muses,” John Akomfrah (U.K.-Ghana)
“The Forgotten Space,” Noel Burch, Allan Sekula (Netherlands-Austria)
“Nainsukh,” Amit Dutta (Switzerland-India)
“Caracremada,” Lluis Galter (Spain)
“Per questi stretti morire (ovvero cartografia di una passione),” Giuseppe Gaudino, Isabella Sandri (Italy)
“Guest,” Jose Luis Guerin (Spain)
“Jean Gentil,” Laura Amelia Guzman, Isreal Cardenas (Dominican Republic-Mexico-Germany)
“Reconstructing Faith,” Huang Wenhai (China)
“Robinson in Ruins,” Patrick Keiller (U.K.)
“Zelal,” Marianne Khoury (Egypt-France)
“Anti Gas Skin,” Kim Gok and Kim Sun (South Korea)
“News From Nowhere,” Paul Morrissey (U.S.)
“A Espada e a Rosa,” Joao Nicolau (Portugal-France)
“Dharma Guns,” F.J. Ossang (France-Portugal)
“Verano de Goliat,” Nicolas Pereda (Mexico-Canada)
“El Sicario Room 164,” Gianfranco Rosi (France-Italy)
“When We Were Communists,” Maher Abi Samra (France-United Arab Emirates)
“Malavoglia,” Pasquale Scimeca (Italy)
“Cold Fish,” Sion Sono (Japan)

HORIZONS MEDIUM-LENGTH AND SHORT FILMS
“House,” Doug Aitken (U.S.)
“Weak Rot Front,” Victor Alimpiev (Russia)
“Il Capo,” Yuri Ancarani (Italy)
“En el Futuro,” Mauro Andrizzi (Argentina)
“Shadow Cuts,” Martin Arnold (Austria)
“El Pozo,” Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico)
“Woman I,” Nuntanat Duangtisarn (Thailand)
“Non si puo nulla contro il vento,” Flatform (Italy)
“The Agent,” Vincent Gallo (U.S.)
“Crust,” Huang Wenhai (China)
“Mouse Palace,” Harald Hund, Paul Horn (Austria)
“Four Seasons,” Chaisiri Jiwarangsan (Thailand)
“Better Life,” Isaac Julien (U.K.-China)
“Diamonds,” Rustam Khamdamov (Russia)
“Red Earth,” Clara Law (China-Hong Kong-Australia)
“Future Archaeology,” Armin Linke, Francesco Mattuzzi (Italy-Germany)
“Atom,” Markus Loffler, Andree Korpys (Germany)
“The Life and Death of Henry Darger,” Bertrand Mandico (France-Iceland)
“Magic for Beginners,” Jesse McLean (U.S.)
“Inspiration,” Galina Myznikova, Sergey Provorov (Russia)
“Paineis de Sao Vicente de Fora, Visao Poetica,” Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal)
“The External World,” David Oreilly (Germany)
“On Rubiks’ Road,” Laila Pakalnina (Latvia)
“Man in a Room,” Rafael Palacio Illingworth (U.S.-Mexico-Switzerland)
“Diane Wellington,” Arnaud des Pallieres (France)
“Les Barbares,” Jean Gabriel Periot (France)
“The Future Will Not Be Capitalist,” Sasha Pirker (Austria)
“O Mundo e’ belo,” Luiz Pretti (Brazil)
“Stardust,” Nicolas Provost (Belgium)
“Cold Clay, Emptiness … ” SJ Ramir (New Zealand)
“The Futurist,” Emily Richardson (U.K.)
“Out,” Roee Rosen (Israel)
“John’s Gone,” Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie (U.S.)
“Indefatigable,” Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt (Ecuador-U.K.)
“21 Grams,” Xun Sun (China)
“How to Pick Berries,” Elina Talvensaari (Finland)
“La linea generale,” Oleg Tcherny (France)
“Coming Attractions,” Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)
“The Death of an Insect,” Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen (Finland)
“Mechanic of Spring,” Atsushi Wada (Japan)
“Fading,” Olivier Zabat (France)
“720 Degrees,” Ishtiaque Zico (Bangladesh)
“Casus Belli,” Georgios Zois (Greece)

HORIZONS OUT OF COMPETITION
“K.364 A Journey by Train,” Douglas Gordon (U.K.-France)
“A Loft,” Ken Jacobs (U.S.)
“The Leopard,” Isaac Julien (U.K.-Italy)
“Un anno dopo — Progetto Memory Hunters,” Carlo Liberatore, Matteo Di Bernardino, Antonio Iacobone, Stefano Ianni, Marco Castellani (Italy)