| 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero | |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero is a 2011 anthology film, a one-time-only event that took place in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia on 22 December 2011. The film is a collection of one-minute short films created by 60 filmmakers from around the world on the theme of the death of cinema.[1]
The project, developed as an ode to 35mm film and dedicated to preserving the freedom of thought in cinema, was conceived by Veiko Õunpuu with Taavi Eelmaa[2] and funded by the 2011 European Capital of Culture Tallinn, the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the EU-Japan Fest Committee.[3]
| Order | Director/s | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ken Jacobs | USA | Children play in a sandpit, amongst a series of rapid black and white flashes. |
| 2 | Shinji Aoyama | Japan | A coastal power station. |
| 3 | Woo Ming Jin | Malaysia | A poor, tired young woman walks the streets with a baby, as she sees a wealthier woman holding her own child. |
| 4 | Jussi Reittu | Finland | A man emotionlessly drags on a cigarette. |
| 5 | Phie Ambo | Denmark | An older couple meticulously bury animal horns in the dirt. |
| 6 | Norbert Shieh | USA | A smartly dressed man abandons his car and approaches a large abandoned building. |
| 7 | Mark Cousins | Ireland | The director places flowers at the graves of cinemas greatest icons. |
| 8 | Marina Manushenko | Switzerland | The reflections on various wet surfaces, in a city landscape. |
| 9 | Kim Jee-woon | South Korea | A wealthy man shadow-boxes his reflection, before killing himself. |
| 10 | Mart Taniel | Estonia | A man incessantly prays by a riverside, and is largely ignored by those around him. |
| 11 | Tom Tykwer | Germany | A couple cautiously walk through an art gallery, as though they are being followed. |
| 12 | Mika Taanila | Finland | Modern infrastructure amongst natural landscapes. |
| 13 | Simon Rumley | UK | The director shows us the cinema he visited frequently growing up, now closed, and ready for demolition. |
| 14 | Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon | Iceland | An older man returns home from a funeral, and stands by the ocean (seemingly committing suicide). |
| 15 | Ronni Shendar | Israel | Various shots of water |
| 16 | Edmund Yeo | Malaysia/Japan | A split-screen depicting a young photographer as she wanders a snowy landscape, and a sorrowful woman contemplating throwing herself off of a bridge. |
| 17 | Brian Yuzna | USA | Physical comedian Peter Pitofsky mimes turning into the Incredible Hulk. |
| 18 | Pen-ek Ratanaruang | Thailand | Thousands of paper cubes float through a massive tank of water. |
| 19 | Mark Boswell | USA | The journey of water flowing from a water tower marked "Save the Palestinians". |
| 20 | Bruce McClure | USA | Projection grain and film flicker. |
| 21 | Gustav Deutsch | Austria | A single pair of clasped hands in front of a moving mass of smoke. |
| 22 | Jeon Kyu-hwan | South Korea | A young man looks to a photograph of a married couple, and commits suicide. |
| 23 | Michael Glawogger | Austria | The cameraman travels through the streets of an Indian marketplace, as the locals stare, intrigued. |
| 24 | Kang Kiyoung (aka Dalpalan) | South Korea | Overlapped footage of four different people walking down a street at night, singing to themselves. |
| 25 | Brian Yuzna | USA | A fancy gentleman remote-controls a pink-haired robot woman, and kisses her (bringing her to life). Now free, she slaps him and leaves. |
| 26 | Jes Benstock | UK | Perspective of the day in the life of an infant. |
| 27 | Gereon Wetzel | Germany | A large group of people form a human tower. When it inevitably falls, they catch one another and cheer wildly. |
| 28 | Albert Serra | Spain | A couple lay by a riverbed in a forest at night. |
| 29 | Tolga Karaçelik | Turkey | The director writes an apology letter to cinema itself, apologizing for his poor contribution to the film, due to his running out of time to make something substantial. He instead films various strangers clapping a clapperboard for the camera. |
| 30 | Ville Kerimaa | Finland | The remains of a ruined brick building. |
| 31 | Jan Ijäs | Finland | Three people sit silently on their smartphones in a beautiful garden. |
| 32 | Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson | Iceland | A woman approaches the edge of a steaming hot spring. |
| 33 | Vimukthi Jayasundara | Sri Lanka | A lone swinging lightbulb. |
| 34 | Adam Wingard | USA | A couple film their sexual exploits together, and seemingly regret it. |
| 35 | Viktor Kaganovich | Ukraine | A lace curtain and leaves blow gently in the breeze. |
| 36 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea | A man wanders a hallway with a lighter and is startled by a young girl spraying flames from an aerosol can. He awakens to find a gagged woman, tied to a piano, like a marionette. |
| 37 | Eric Khoo | Singapore | A violent young woman repeatedly slams her hand into a chest of drawers. She is then seen attacking a man, and dismembering him whilst he is tied to a chair. |
| 38 | Maxì Dejoie | Italy | A naked man stands on a beach and shoots a flaming arrow through a desktop computer, as it bursts into flames. |
| 39 | Andres Tenusaar | Estonia | Lamps are pulled across a field by rolling eggs. A woman places two of the eggs in a pan, where they self-combust. She then places both in her mouth before immediately depositing them from under her dress, as the lamps roll away. |
| 40 | Auraeus Solito | Philippines | Two indigenous men shoot at monkeys with blow-darts. |
| 41 | Rafi Pitts | Iran | Men set fire to a field and watch it burn. |
| 42 | Malcolm Le Grice | UK | The director burns sugar on a spoon, mixes it into a glass of water and drinks it. |
| 43 | Veiko Õunpuu | Estonia | A large man devours a slab of meat before choking to death. |
| 44 | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines | Hundreds of birds soar through the sky. |
| 45 | Kyungwon Moon | South Korea | Ivy begins to grow over a greenhouse full of taxidermy animals, until it eventual disappears, and so do the animals. |
| 46 | Feyyaz | Germany | A demonic-looking woman spits blood and staggers through a forest. She sees a beautiful version of herself sat relaxing by the water. |
| 47 | Aku Louhimies | Finland | A young girl sits intently writing in a workbook. |
| 48 | Ishii Gakuryu | Japan | Warped and distorted images of a dark forest gradually turn bright and beautiful. |
| 49 | Naomi Kawase | Japan | A young girl admires a beautiful sunset through a car window. As the words "I love you" appear on-screen, she slowly turns to acknowledge the camera. |
| 50 | Amir Naderi | Iran | A person traces their hand across the surfaces of the contents of a film-themed antique store. |
| 51 | Jussi Jaakola | Finland | A cloud of smoke. |