FILLIDOR
(18 mins / 35mm / B&W / 2006)

A bitter feud between two rival professors escalates to new levels of cruelty and absurdity when they start trying to demonstrate their conflicting theories about reality on each others' female companions. 
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Director: Michael Vass 
Writer: Michael Vass (based on the writings of Witold Gombrowicz)
Producers: Ekaterina Lebedeva, Tom Wilson, Michael Vass
Cinematographer: Pavel Patriki 
Production Designer: Wendy Foster 
Editor: Michael Vass
Composer: Robbie Grunwald

Starring: James Lukie, Michael Leo, Anna-Marie Sutherland
Martha Girvin, Jerry Getty, G. Wallace Pidgeon, Marcello Tulipano

Awards:
Silver Medal 2008 Brno 16 Independent Film Festival
Best Screenwriting Award 2007 Canadian Filmmakers' Festival
Special Award for Originality 2006 Belgrade Short Film Festival

Selected Screenings:
2007 Detroit Museum of New Art Film and Video Festival
2007 Declaration of Independents Internaitonal Film Festival
2007 Euroshorts International Short Film Festival

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