We've animation and experimentation, music videos and mobile phone movies, documentary portraits and meditative memoirs, snappy sketches and satiric stingers, surrealism, silliness, and short sharp shocks, in this selection that demonstrates that brevity is often the soul of cinema.
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The Poem is about city and me through 3 emotional chapter of excitement/ frustration/ hope. It has mainly giving a think our loneliness and (dis)connections. What does it mean to belong, to be part of a whole? Fingers and head are part of a body. A body is part of a person. A person is part of a family. A family is part of a community. A community is part of a city. A city is part of a nation. And so on. What happens when we stretch, bend or break these links? The body -as well as the city- is not just matter. It’s movement and gesture, it flows. It feels. It changes. It is creative and destructive energy at the same time. A lonely body. sometimes in sync with other bodies. sometimes not. A body that defies and confronts the city. It can be swallowed, disassembled and transformed… when does a body cease to exist? Composed by three sequences or micro-acts, No Body doesn’t follow a conventional narrative story but rather an emotional pulse that oscillates from excitement down to frustration until it emerges again - filled with hope.
It’s a journey of a body in the city, through the city, with the city. The combination of the music, the poem and the fast-paced life-drawings offers us a sublime artistic experience and invites us to wonder about our own place in life.
Jack the ripper_ Then and now
Original soundtrack from English national Opera_2019 Jack the ripper
In our film, we’ll explore the abusive power that men exert over women — on their bodies
and their minds — as perceived through the foggy lens of time. The past and the present are
overlaid in order to challenge the illusion which separates them. The present is already past.
The past is always present.
Given that Jack was never caught, and that some people believe he could have been multiple
killers, should we represent him as only one man? By choosing to never reveal his identity,
we’ll insinuate that the Ripper could be any one of us, as well as in all of us — and that in
today’s society, he rips women’s hopes for a brighter future, he rips their dreams into
domestic submission, and he rips their self-esteems as well as their ability to control their
own bodies.
Who was Jack then, and who is he now? What was abuse like then, and what is like now?
Director: Haemin KO
Animation :Haemin KO
Sunnie Du
Liam engels
In a dystopian setting, a young woman is struggling betwenn freezing her emotional side or sticking to it.
(UK) Two old friends bicker over baby-names. This experimental verbatim short uses the text of a messaging app conversation as inspiration for the dialogue.
A Delivery Man wants to cross the road. He's in for a surprise.
A film about the drive towards exploitation of people by technology companies, and the privatisation of public assets
During a compulsory information meeting for unemployed people, the friendly face of a ridiculous, Kafkaesque bureaucracy exposes the truth behind unemployment. (Unemployed people act as a deterrent to the rest of the population: to remain in their poorly paid jobs and to continue consuming).
A bored Job Centre coach explains the NAIRU model. NAIRU is the level of unemployment that is necessary in order to keep the inflation from rising. For this to be efficient, it is of uttermost importance for the unemployed people to feel bad.
“EMBRACES & the touch of skin” is an animated poem about the vital need for embraces and contact with other beings.
A film by Sara Koppel
A man plunges into his reservoir of memory, nostalgia and regret.
Country of Origin USA 2019 - Greater Manchester Premiere
Humans constantly utilize or exploit resources that are available to us. The term resource is used in a general sense, as it can be related to food, water, raw materials or fuel. We use it as a necessity, to survive or use it excessively as a luxury to bring comfort.
The film “Expend” portrays the human tendency to exploit resources for our petty desires. In the story, the character acquires this energy by bringing harm to other creatures in the process. The human character in the film does not feel remorse or guilt for his actions as this is part of his daily routine.
The idea is not to condemn the use of our resources but to think of its source before wasting it.
The medium of stop-motion was chosen to complement the idea of the story. Stop-motion is tactile and tangible. Everything on the other side of the screen is relatable and real. It pushes the boundaries of story telling by connecting with the audience on a personal level.
'Head-shoulders-knees-and-toes' is an experimental short film using the children's song as a basis for de- and re-constructing the female body. Following the narratives of three women, the film explores corporeal responses to psychological or physical trauma. The soundtrack contains distorted extracts of the song, 'head-shoulders-knees-and-toes'.
Country of Origin UK 2018
A coincidental discovery tears a broke private detective out of his daily routine and turns his life upside down. He embarks on a search into the past to change his future.
Cast
Anthony Watterson - Investigator
Maarten Roemer - Son
Hendry Cruz - Grandson
Andrina Stauffer - Barista
Manuel Nagel - Mailman
Country of Origin South Africa 2019
24 is the animated retrospective of a young man born between different cultures, it depicts moments of memory through short vignettes of the past; Alongside an evolving abstracted animation that grows in complexity. The film tackles issues of culture, memory and trauma through the lens of a person torn between identities. The film has a strong theoretical base around the number 24.
This Film is a combination of several visual experiments, structured around one main narrative premise. What if Birds had religions, what would there myths be? What would there ceremonies be?I wanted the audience to feel like we are observing in on an event that is happening regardless if the cameras are on or off. The goal was to make the whole short to feel implacable, meaning no matter where you are from it is foreign and also the tiniest bit familiar, the plastic heads, the Eastern European cloth patterns, the Tibetan music, and the classical western painterly look. All humans have rituals and ceremonies, I wanted something that would play the same to anyone no matter what culture or time they were from. Equally odd to everyone.
An eye witness account of the serial killer Javid Iqbal who murdered over 100 children in the early 1990s in Lahore, Pakistan.
Country of Origin UK 2019
Country: UK
Synopsis:
Mausoleum casts Julia Deakin (star of Spaced, Down Terrace and Hot Fuzz) as a woman at her wit's end. When she sits down to dinner with her husband, she realises that time is running out to resolve her mistakes and regain control of her life.
Shot on 35mm by award-winning cinematographer Chris Fergusson. With Sound Design by BIFA Winner Anna Bertmark.
Winner - Best Short Film, Homegrown ShortsWinner - Tri-Counties Award, White Elephant Film FestivalWinner - Outstanding Short Film, High Peak Independent Film Festival
Nominee - Best Actress, Unrestricted View Film FestivalNominee - Best Cinematography, Unrestricted View Film FestivalNominee - Best Sound, Unrestricted View Film FestivalNominee - Best Cinematography, High Peak Independent Film FestivalNominee - Best Sound Design, Underwire Film Festival
Official Selections: Women Over 50 Film Festival 2018, Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018, Short Sounds 2018, Short to the Point November 2018, London Short Film Festival 2019, White Elephant Film Festival 2019, Indie Lincs 2019, Homegrown Shorts 2019, Dorset Indie Film Festival 2019, BEAF Film Festival 2019, Indie Cyprus Short Film Festival 2019, Unrestricted View Film Festival 2019, Fastnet Film Festival 2019, New Forest Film Festival 2019, High Peak Independent Film Festival 2019, Underwire Festival 2019, Exit 6 2019, Short Short Story Film Festival 2019, Kino Film Short Film & Animation Festival 2020
Greater Manchester Premiere
A man travels to the Canary Islands to track down his twin, with savage consequences.
Written, Directed, Acted, Edited, and Produced By Richard Howe
Camera- Kane Clover, Luca Rudlin, and Valpuri Vihriala.
Co Starring - Thanks to Wild Bill, Charlene Roberts and Valpuri Howe.
Music By Batfink & JIm Noir.
Filmed In Manchester and Tenerife.
Dedicated to my brother Martin.
Country of Origin UK 2019
A couple are clearing plastic on the banks of the Thames, when she suddenly decides to take feminist action.
CAST:
Charity Wakefield & David Newman
Country of Origin UK 2019
A man must decide whether to intervene and stop a casual commuting rule breaker, or live with a lifetime of regret. A comedy about a passive man with an overactive imagination.
In a desolate world, a girl finds an abandoned robot in a cave. But luck is short lived as batteries are hard to come by.
A little boy lives in a world full of Anxiety and fear. A fear that does no mining to others. The normal world is in progress but everything for him is loneliness and darkness.
Country of Origin Iran 2018
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