Best Student Film
Fish Never Sleep
Dir: Gaelle Denis
Royal College Of Art
From a documentary about fish industry in Japan to the story of Naoko, a complete insomniac, a lot of sushi, fear and suspence.
Capoeira
Dir: Lewis Campbell
Royal College Of Art
From the forced migration and enslavement of Africans taken to Brazil in the 1500's came Capoeira, a blend of music, dance and combat.
Historia del Desierto
Dir: Celia Galan Julve
Royal College Of Art
Rosita Guzman escaped from prison in 1962 and was never found. 40 years later a documentary tries to find out more.
The Restaurant of Many Orders
Dir: Yuki Tsujita
Royal College Of Art
When two gentlemen went into the woods and lost their way they found a restaurant. The name was a restaurant of many orders.
Captain Webb: The Art of Swimming
Dir: Robert Milne
Royal College Of Art
Captain Webb's predicament really intrigued me. Here was a man who could not afford to rest his laurels. The irony of depicting a man's laborious struggles via months of laborious drawing did not escape me.
Kiviuq
Dir: Jason Jameson
Royal College Of Art
Kiviuq, a lonely innuit, meets a mysterious woman on a strange island. They fall in love, but soon she starts to act suspiciously. What is she hiding?
Pinion
Dir: Stuart Messinger
Royal College Of Art
Taking of innocence.
To Have and to Hold
Dir: Emily Mantell
Royal College Of Art
An alternative world based on a companionship fantasy where women take the lead.
The Tortuise and the Eagle
Dir: Robert Milne
Royal College Of Art
Based on the Aesop fable. The tortoise inspires to fly and seeks help getting him started.
Gifted
Dir: Emily
Royal College Of Art
Livestock
Dir: Dicken Franklin
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
In this animated musical Old Mac Donald doesn't have a farm anymore. Driven mad when his animals died of a freak disease 20 years ago, he still dances around his farm using strange methods to bring life to his dead animals.
Takuskanskan
Dir: Selina Cobley
Edinburgh College of Art
'Takuskanskan' is a mythological story of creation. The three characters- the raven, the selkie (seal) and the antlered spirit- are responsible for creating the rain needed for growth on land. The cycle begins with the seal, who fills a passing cloud with water on an island out at sea. The cloud is passed onto the bird, who carries it through the sky and over land. Finally, the antlered spirit pierces the cloud with the antlers of a stag to create rain, allowing him to sow the seeds of the forest.
Boxed In
Dir: Will Becher
Edinburgh College of Art
A rodent arrives in a box- a battle of wits between an old man and a mouse
begins...
The Lighthouse
Dir: Mårten Jönmark
Edinburgh College of Art
A music- loving lighthouse keeper has to take heroic steps to keep the light
burning....
Birdfeed
Dir: Dermot Flynn
University of Brighton/ Studio AKA
An innocent trip to the pack to feed the pigeons, proves to have disastrous consequences
A Feather Too Far
Dir: Daniel Carey, Neil MacGillivray, Collin Denovan
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
A baby bird tries to fly, with disastrous results.
The Typewriter
Dir: Richard Haynes, Mikolaj Watt
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
In an empty office even a tea- boy can fulfill his dreams. Set in 1950's New York and based on the music by Leroy Anderson this piece is funny and enormously entertaining at the same time.
Flat Pack
Dir: Andrew Lindsay
London Metropolitan University
A single-minded fellow arrives home with a large box containing what presumably is a piece of flat pack furniture. He fastidiously prepares and assembles the construction, counting screws and checking angles. What he ends up with however, seems more fuelled by his fantasies than the instructions that came with the pack.
The Trinket-Maker
Dir: Paul Daley
National Film & Television School
Wendell's home in the clouds is unusual and beautiful, as the objects he creates, but his is a lonely life. When a chance encounter seems to offer him an earthier alternative, Wendell isn't sure if he dares put his feet on the ground.
SAP
Dir: Hyun-Joo Kim
National Film & Television School
The story of two travelling monks who meet and part on more than one occasion.
Last rumble in Rochdale
Dir: John Chorlton
National Film & Television School
Bodney Brooks, a twelve-year-old master of computer-controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his Gran in an attempt to get back into his family’s good books. But, as ever in Bodney's world, things don't quite go according to plan...
1 + 1
Dir: Grigoris Leontiades
National Film & Television School
Living in a desert, a man believes himself content.
Coming Home
Gemma Carrington
National Film & Television School
A woman returns home to find that everything is not quite as she remembers it ...
Anna Spud
Dir: Edward Foster
National Film & Television School
Anna Spud is not a happy little girl.
Excuse my French
Dir: Helene Friren
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
The conversation starts in a friendly tone, but soon the birds get to tease each other with sayings, until one gets angry. He then apologises for going a bit too far, using the expression "Excuse my French", which means in British English "Excuse my bad language".
Seduced
Dir: James Smith
International Film School of Wales
A Film that Explores the extents to which product designers and advertisers will go to flaunt their products.
The Carol of the Fieldmice
Dir: Eleanor Pomfret
Norwich School of Art & Design
A choir of young field mice celebrate the joys of Christmas with carol singing, but some prove to be rather easily distracted.
Rudy Troue: Black and Blue
Dir: Oblong
London Metropolitan University
London Details
Dir: Timo Schaedl
London Metropolitan University
Once Upon a Time
Dir: Shelly Wain
London Metropolitan University
Chasing the Wind
Dir: Mark Kessler
Kingston University
This film is about a dead mans spirit that floats high above the city waiting for a ship that will take him to heaven. The ideas are about letting go of the world beneath so that your hands are free to reach out for that which is most important.
4 foot car
Dir: Ian Splendloff London College of Music and Media
How hard can a visit to the garage be?
The Morning (and those who ruin it)
Dir: Wes West
London College of Music and Media
The morning and those who ruin it.
Scoops
Dir: Ian Spendloff
London College of Music and Media
After a hard days work, a man decides to cool off with a nice ice cream. But events conspire to stop him enjoying his tret...
Rhythm Rainbows
Dir: Sarah Davies
London Metropolitan University
London NY
Dir: Honathan De Torre Macho
London Metropolitan University
Flight of Fancy
Dir: Debbie Hardman
London Metropolitan University