Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship

From Fargo Filmmaking

Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship (2006) is a short narrative created by Erika Tasini of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Contents 1 Main Details 1.1 Plot Summary 1.2 Production Information 1.3 Cast 1.4 Crew 2 Other Information 2.1 Film Festivals 3 External Links

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[edit] Plot Summary

A little girl, her parents, and their ball. The endless contentions between competitive parents are seen through the curious eyes of a perceptive and enterprising little girl. The movie has also been described as a dissonant educational story for families, a subversive mise-en-scène of games, moods, looks and objects of desire.

Erika Tasini said of the movie: “The film is an experiment in rhythm and storytelling. My primary goal was to externalize and dramatize a space which is interior, personal, imaginary. The little girl’s subjectivity and her perception of her family universe completely fill every frame of this film. I attempted to create a subjective perspective of the world through disjunctive editing that collapses categories of linear time and realistic space. Reality is portrayed as we see it, or rather, as the little girl see it. As a result the film attempts to go beyond the realistic boundaries of cinema in order to represent a surreal universe. Are they really playing a game? What is the film really about? What does the game stand for? I hope that the viewer will leave the theatre asking these questions, and will consequently find his or her own answers.”

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Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship (2006) won the award for Best Narrative Short at the 2007 Fargo Film Festival. The movie also won the Kodak Short Film Award at the 24th Torino Film Festival.

Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship was commissioned by the Slamdance Film festival as part of a selective program for alumni filmmakers (Tasini's Winter Sea screened at Slamdance 2005). The short needed to be completed under the difficult constraints of an extremely limited budget ($99) and a limited amount of time.

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• Julie Alexander.... Mother
• Jonathan Newhall.... Father
• Alessandra Daniele....Daughter

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• Written and Directed by Erika Tasini

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[edit] Film Festivals

• 2007 Big Muddy Film Festival
• 2007 Fargo Film Festival.... Winner Best Narrative Short
• 2006 Torino Film Festival.... Winner Kodak Short Film Award
• 2006 Slamdance Film Festival.... World Premiere
• 2006 Three Rivers Film Festival

[edit] External Links

• Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship at the Internet Movie Database
• Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship at the Hollywood Reporter
• Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship at the Oxford Film Festival
• Chronicles of Impeccable Sportsmanship at the Torino Film Festival