A selection of the best experimental short films made by students in the UK over the last year, this programme presents a wide variety of abstract and non-narrative filmmaking.
This screening is introduced by Manchester-based visual artist and animator Andrew McDonald. He has exhibited throughout the UK, in the British Art Show 6, and at venues including Cornerhouse, International 3 (Manchester), Chapter Gallery (Cardiff) and Ormeau Baths Gallery (Belfast).
Experimental Award Jury : Andrew McDonald, David Blandy (artist, The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, Radio Nights), Andrew Kötting (artist lecturer and filmmaker THIS FILTHY EARTH, and GALAVANT).
PROGRAMME:
- BARS
Dir Rob Brandon
Buckinghamshire Chilters University College
The animation of a colour test card.
- TELEPATHY
Dir Flynn Eccles
Manchester Metropolitan University
An investigation of perception and audience response.
- DRIP
Dir Jocelyne Holden
Manchester Metropolitan University
Paint becomes a symbol of the descent into a state of depression and obsession.
- A SHORT FILM ABOUT BUGS
Dir Ben Thompson
Manchester Metropolitan University
Based on dreams and drawings, a disjointed narrative is told in swathes of colour.
- REPETITION IN NATURE
Dir Kieran Micallef
Roehampton University
104 people were asked to paint over a film still in search of its ‘true’ meaning.
- HALF WAY THERE…
Dir Marie Croce
Winchester School of Art
A three-screen study of space and time through visuals and sounds.
- RUPTURE
Dir Bill Balaskas
University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham
The search for a relation between public and private space.
- ALPHA
Dir Tajinder Dhami
Royal College of Art, London
Sound and light frequencies induce a meditative state in the viewer.
- STRINGS
Dir Rob Brandon
Buckinghamshire Chilters University College
Lines of inspiration come to life through a child’s advice.
- ASPERITY
Dir Tom Reynolds
University of the West of England
The life of a viola bow. It takes you in and spits you out.
- MISSING THE SEA
Dir Adam E. Dobson
Birkbeck College
Oceanic images and poetic text are slowed down, glacially, evoking the ineffable and the sublime.
- THINGS IN BLUE
Dir Ben Thompson
Manchester Metropolitan University
A field of blue is broken by intermittent images and instances.
- CLEAR, I, ME
Dir Ben Lycett
Manchester Metropolitan University
The animated collision of technology and religion.
- THE PROJECTION OF DREAMS
Dir Tom Scott
University of Manchester
A film exploring astral projection, the unconscious, hypnagogia, and the twin surrealities of dreams and hyper-reality.
- TIN CAN
Dir Laura Crow
Northumbria University
A voyeuristic journey through a twisted city.
- MONKEY SEE
Dir Steven Farrimond
Manchester Metropolitan University
An observational film of a monkey, with its actions edited to music.