Cannes then Venice? What on Earth?

Just got news that filmmaker and visual artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s short film Earth will be screened at a short film section at the 66th Venice Film Festival this September. First Cannes and now Venice? In one year? Power bro! When’s Berlin? Earth, by the way, was the 43-minute film that was show in his collaboration with The Observatory at the recent Arts Fest – one of my favourite productions in the lineup. This time around he’s collaborating with Japanese sound artist Yasuhiro Morinaga and Italian “electro-acoustic composer” Stefano Pilia. Yasuhiro, incidentally, did the sound for Malaysian filmmaker Chris Chong’s film Karaoke, which was screened at the same time as Tzu Nyen’s HERE at the Directors Fortnight at Cannes.