Best Film at the Cutting Edge
Summertime
Dir: Nico Clark
Ocean Visual
Based on Gershwin's Lullaby, performed by Booker T. & the MG's, 'Summertime'
is visual interpretation of music - A journey through an isolated coral island,
in the form of a ballet danced by the elements of nature itself; illustrating
and celebrating the connection between all life.
Moo(n)
Dir: Leigh Hodgkinson
Slinky Pictures
The film is about the friendship between a girl and a cow. Their perfect times together are interrupted by a bee and some sneezes. An enforced separation inspired by caring parents' pales into insignificance when the cow finds herself on another planet. Her quest to get home to see her friend is ludicrously employed and as it turns out - suicidal. We discover that friendship can be fickle, actions have consequences and that hot milk and honey can relieve the common cold.
Survey
Dir: Joe King
Slinky Pictures
Survey is the result of a photographic tour of South Wales. The film captures some unique architecture and landscapes creating a rhythmic study of the area, breathing life into buildings and structures. It is made almost entirely from photographic stills.
Dad's Dead
Dir: Chris Shepherd
Slinky Pictures
Through a series of ghostly reminiscences a young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the story unfolds, hero worship turns to revulsion as the web of violence is revealed. Manipulated live action mutates and combines with digital animation.
Sucked Up
Dir: Karl Cresser
Mangle Movies
An erotic journey addressing the underbelly of male sexuality. A boy and a girl play together under a flyover. Fallopian moths fly from her skirt and chase him into a swimming pool. Years later, they meet again. There is a failed sexual encounter, followed by four years of gratification.
Inseparable Bonds
Dir: Lars Magnus
Holmgren Frankenskippy
This movie challenges complacency in the media-arts, offering a fresh alternative
to "reality" television, presenting instead "surreality"
television.
Our host with the most "Sir Real" interviews his latest special guest,
a couple who have merged mind, body, emotions, souls and gender to become the
one abominable character - Gareena.
Extn. 21
Dir: Lizzie Oxby
Fine Take
Orman is having a futile conversation on his mobile phone. He is running back
to his office but getting nowhere. If he could just get through to Mr Langley
'everything' will be resolved but someone (or something) is intercepting his
calls....
Structure Space Form
Dir: Oblong
Oblong
Structure Space Form is an exploration of 2D and 3D space using very basic geometry, complex 3D line drawings, London street maps, DV digital photos and Super-8 footage. The idea was to try and bring together the 2D conceptual London i.e maps, A-Z, tube maps, and the actual physical experience.
The Old Fools
Dir: Ruth Lingford
Sherbet
A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our own decay and death. With some
humour and visual seduction, the film uses images that are visceral, abrasive
and sometimes quite beautiful, hinting at the consequences of our society's
denial of death.,
Arrive
Dir: Ed Holdsworth
OneDotZero
Rising star, Holdsworth's exquisite, abstracted Japanese odyssey. Commissioned by Onedotzero and based on his first trip to the city of Tokyo. This is a meditation on travel and arrival - perfectly communicating the explosion of the senses and audio-visual burst that intoxicates on first arrival in the multi-layered metropolis. Cut to the original track 'Medusa' by Dom Mino.
The Nuclear Train
Dir: Daniel Saul
James is deeply disturbed by the way the heavy vibrations made by the trains carrying nuclear waste past his family home. When he leaves the house he enters a surreal dreamscape from which he may never return.
Butterfly
Dir: Glenn Marshall
Dream Ireland Ltd
A kaleidoscopic journey through life, death plus transformation.