SHORT-SHORT FILMS
Long Dream
A Film by Yanming Yang
London College of Communication,UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
A man who is suffering from insomnia is having a psychedelic experience. Is he still in his dream? Is he coming back to reality? Or is he going deeper in his dream?
Animal Late at the Horniman
A Film by Yanming Yang
London College of Communication,UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
When the night comes, the real play of the animal specimens in the Horniman Museum has just begun...
No. One, No One.
A Film by Yanming Yang and Cyrus Lo.
London College of Communication,UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
Two competitive primary school students crazily fight for the first position in class ranking list. After the No.1 student is killed by the No.2 student, the abnormally competitive virus infects every other student in class, and the next competitions begin...
untitled (Rupture #1), 2018
A Film by James Bryant
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
Single channel diptych recording an action from two angles. The action is the attempted destruction of a chromakey green canvas and wooden frame with a sledge hammer. The action is violent and dramatic but also humorous. Slinging the sledgehammer awkwardly with one hand while trying to hold the canvas in place with the other becomes a kind of parody of masculinity.
My Applause
A Film by Wang Weiye
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
I slapped myself in the face nine times.
I played the record videos at the same time.
They became the applause I made.
They became the applause I deserved.
Studying to Escape Myself
A Film by Nico Cong Bu
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
Sometimes i sense the inner state of me as an empty house of perception. Human nature has its potential to endow people with sensation of entanglement. In this work I am trying to experience the intangible essence of perception, and experiment the connection between my inner self and the surrounding environment.
Storm Song
A Film by Rebecca Hilton
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
‘Storm Song’ (2019) was influenced by the late Julie Becker’s contribution to the myths surrounding the merging of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of The Moon’, as part of Becker’s solo exhibition at the ICA (2018).
The footage in 'Storm Song' is shot in a swimming pool. The underwater sounds are overlaid with excerpts from two poems, 'Ghost Ribbon' and 'Cataclysmic Storm'. The themes in 'Ghost Ribbon' explore return from failure, whilst 'Cataclysmic Storm' investigates the weight of authoritarian power and control.
Gallileo’s Relief
A Film by Iria Vrettou
Royal College of Arts
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
'Gallielo’s Relief is inspired by the story of how Gallileo was led to the discovery of the moon being a solid mass rather than solely heat and light. It was through various philosophical arguments with his friend Lodovico Cigoli, a Florentine painter, about the reality of sculpture and painting; that is through light, sculpture shares the same reality as us, while in painting light is enforced by the artist.The character is built on Gallileo, while also associating with artists from the 2013 exhibition at Hayward Gallery “Alternative Guide to the Universe”. The film draws inspiration from films like George Melies’s 1898 “Astronomer’s Dream” and Louis Bunuel’s “Andalousian Dog”.'
TO EXIT IS NOT TO LEAVE
A Film by Jarek Kubacki
Chelsea College of Arts,UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
You wake up one day and realised it's XXI century. Post-2nd World War idealism is a distant memory. The phrase 'United we stand, divided we fall' is as outdated as a landline phone. the meantime, authoritarianism and white nationalism is on the rise around the world. Seems like the desire to separate, divide and detach is flowing through the collective unconscious strongly yet again. Maybe the world is just a bit fed up with itself? The idea to leave, start fresh, live in a better world is universal. But what is a better world and how do you get there? Do you just go through the door and leave everything behind? Maybe you were just following the signposts. But who put them on there for you?
A Place Where War is Far and Omnipresent
A Film by Noa Weinstein
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
Following Japanese weapon-enthusiasts, from shooting ranges in Kyoto to large-scale battle simulations in Osaka's fields, A Place Where War is Far and Omnipresent (2019, 5'20), is a documentary movie that discusses the involvement of private companies in the war industry, and the daily presence of their objects around us.
The movie tells the story of the struggle to find the particular delimitation between games and war, weapons and objects. The disappearance of this invisible line where everything splits, would only mean the disappearance of peace, questioning ultimately the very notion of war.
My work is an attempt to explore the multipolar forms of distant but close, different but familiar, everywhere but intangible war. Here, war doesn’t appear to be chaos, but rather a stable condition.
While Doing What My Mom Told Me To
A Film by Aikaterini Mimikou
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
Why do I have to put the dirty towel to the laundry?
Why do I have to separate the socks to dark and white?
Why do I have to select the correct cycle?
Why do I have to put the washing powder?
Why do I have to put the fabric conditioner?
Why do I have to take the clothes out of the washing machine?
Why do I have to put the sheets on the drying loft?
Why do I have to secure the underwear with pins?
Why do I have to collect the shirts when they dry?
Why do I have to iron?
Why is my brother watching me watching television while I am ironing his pyjamas?
Because that’s what my mom told me to do.
se, different but familiar, everywhere but intangible war. Here, war doesn’t appear to be chaos, but rather a stable condition.
The Seen
A Film by Svetlana Ochkovskaya
Goldsmiths, University of London
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
The otherworldly spiky white creature floats in the dark empty space and slowly transforms into the half-human figure. It continues playing and moving with the spines and tube feet; attracts and disorientates the viewer. In the end, the white space changes into the studio environment, in which film is shoot, reveal that the creature is a human wearing a hand made paper cones sculpture; it runs away through the corridors.
Death of the Electric Fan
A Film by Xinyao Liu
Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
I took the electric fan to the beach, then placed the electric fan on the beach and confronted the waves. Through the transfer of the space in which the object is located, some energy that is easily overlooked, such as electricity, wind, etc., is used as if the object itself has vitality.
Originally, I wanted to take a close-up view of the electric fan blowing waves and forming a wave in the opposite direction on the wave, but the position where the wave arrives is difficult to control. Eventually, the electric fan was in a state of confrontation with the waves far away, so that the wind generated by the electric fan will compete against the sea breeze in the opposite direction. Even if it is far away, the electric fan is still broken by the inadvertent big waves. The video presents a futile process and inevitable results, magnifying the tiny resistance.
Washing Ice Project
A Film by Xinyao Liu
Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
I put the ice in the washing machine and cleaned it. Ice is made from water, and now the water is used to clean the ice, which is a kind of self-cleaning. We all need self-cleaning, and the ultimate in self-cleaning is turning into nothingness. So finally the washing machine is open, nothing.
Song
A Film by Joanna Cohn
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
‘Song’ is an animated monoprint drawn in ink with vocals and musical arrangements recorded by the artist. Touching on themes of performance, transformation and of the singer’s voice, we hear a collage of sound to accompany the ever changing images.
We hear snippets of the voices including those of Philomel, and the poets who recorded her rape and transformation into a nightingale from Ovid to Eliot.
LEAP, ALLOY 2019
A Film by Henry Mills
University of the Arts London
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
In a display of abstracted light refractions, macro textures, and strobing close-ups, Leap Alloy (2019) is a frenetic, multi-sensory experience which leaves little time for contemplation. Referencing the night time as a moment less governed by stable social order, it reconstructs a variety of anomalous experiences through subtle provocations of mystery, melancholy, and discovery. With these themes being closely mapped through the accompanying multi-track soundscape, the film offers an embodied sensitivity that equates to feelings of struggle, loss, and self-determination.
Bathing in a fish tank
A Film by Minqi Xu
Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10
This video reflects how false memory affect dreams and self awareness. It starts with a memory from childhood about taking shower in a fish tank, and it arouses a conflict of moral and desire in the character's inner world. Directly facing the forbidden unconscious through dreams, the character struggle to accept another side of herself. The whole video is represented by memory fragment in the character's mind, and showed in a strange and dreamy way. The boundary among reality, dream, memory and illustration is blurred and the mental world is reconstructed by image puzzles.
A Place Where There is Only Winter
A Film by Minqi Xu
Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7
This film bases on a ridiculous personal love philosophy which is about a relationship between love and climate change. Love couldn't last for long because of high temperature, same as food. The character chose to move to a place where there is only winter. She believes that this is the only way to keep love fresh. This film wants audience to think about why people always to blame their failure of love to a small reason. This story mixes with memory and fantasy also reality. It is unfolded by soliloquize and stream of consciousness. I used a lot of metaphors to represent a psychological monologue and change.
The New Adventures of Quixote
A Film by Jake Major
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
I direct, write, star and produce films centered around my superheroic alter ego Quixote. Inspired by the heroes of page and film, of myth and legend I introduce you to the newest addition to the pop culture pantheon! He's a figure disguised in a chroma key green body suit who majestically adventures through his own fantastical world. In this first part we see him begin his journey, a small beginning in a most ordinary life to greatness and destiny that awaits.
Going Home
A Film by Tom Denney , Lily Taitia
London College of Communication, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
A mother leaves hospital with her newborn baby to discover the world is about to end. As chaos erupts around them she tries to make her way home to be with her child.
My Shoes
A Film by Pippy Stephenson
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
A short documentation of my reluctant goodbye to my old faithful Adidas Sambas, that I bought online for eight pounds.
Without Him I’m Useless
A Film by Jack Pulford
London College of Communication, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
This is a short film that takes switches the love for technology on it's head and shows the love for a human a phone has. Through comparison between a love between two humans and how they compare to the love that one can have with a possession, the film shows a one sided love story that ends in tragedy. The film also looks at how us as humans use others for our own personal gain and when that gain is accomplished we neglect those that got us there.
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A Film by Asako Ujita
Chelsea College of Arts ,UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
Documentary of a composer Clause Debussy. I reconstructed his life when he was composing “The Sea” (a cover for its musical score is Hokusai’s Great Wave), which he created based on his memory/imagination of ocean.
To bring him back alive in present, I collected letters he wrote, pictures, and books about his personal life as reference. Seen through a point of view which seems to belong to dead Debussy, the film unrolls the uncanny documentary of his life—miniature furniture, awkward French-ish voice-over, repeated scenes.
Drifting
A Film by Yijia Wu
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
Sleeping dreams always make me doubt about the reality. Sometimes I wonder if I am living under another layer of dream. The reality I accepted is it the “real” reality? Or it is something my brain convinced my body to believe? The edge between dreams and reality always gets merged in my everyday life. Sometimes, I could not distinguish which scene happened in my sleeping hours and which
scene is from my awake times. Where reality became softer and dreams became stronger, sometimes, replaced parts of the reality. I am obsessed with the fact of dreams as it is so real, surreal and unreal at the same time. The work Plate Dream is focusing on
translating one of my uncanny dreams into visual language, trying to communicate with the “reality” with the body of the dream.
Magic Space Reclaimer
A Film by Nia Hefe Filiogianni
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
Are you bored of being ‘accidentally’-and-not touched on public spaces? The Magic Space Reclaimer is the new trend and is here to save your life! This projects aims to question personal space by advertising a tool that could be useful and effective and it consists of a skirt and a small monitor that you can put in your bag and have it everywhere with you. Through a screen, this video attempts to make the viewer visualise this thin line between solemnity and joke, reflecting issues of contemporary society.
Synthetic Ambient Dysto-scapes
A Film by Elliot Jeffries
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
"Synthetic Ambient Dysto-scapes" is a mixed media film taking place after humanity has left earth after destroying the planet. All that remains are the left-overs of a technology saturated, sedated society that trudge along maintaining their socially regulating functions. The film tackles ideas around social media, environmental struggles, digital meditation and the dilapidation of the silver screen.
The Bell Ring
A Film by Rita Castanheira
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
Inspired by the film "La Jetée" by Chris Marker, the video uses analog photographs to create a narrative set in the dreams of the main character.
Sweeping
A Film by Robert Verrill
Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
My short 2018 film “Sweeping” comments on several pertinent and important issues through the normally unremarkable, banal chore of sweeping-up.
Located on the path outside the casting workshops at Wimbledon College of Art, the material is accumulated white plaster fragments dropped by students
carrying casts to and from the workshop. What does this say?
The unconsciously spilt crumbs of plaster refocus our thoughts on the labour and creativity of unseen minds and hands, reminding us of the natural
materials which have been mined, processed and transported long distances at possibly great environmental cost.
Suspended
A Film by Claire Michel
Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
My video entitled Suspended investigates how life changing events can shape us as humans and how situations we encounter may serve as powerful catalysts and transformations. I am particularly interested in the parental influence on the emotional development of children and what one keeps of their childhood memories.
In this work, I examine the complicated relationship I maintained with my father until he passed away in 2014. I also question ideas of identity and I work around different themes and topics such as memory, trace, bereavement, intimacy and legacy.
How to Be Alone
A Film by Jann Choy
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
This is a film documenting my time learning how to be alone. Here, I isolated myself to a cabin in the country side, with no internet and barely any human contact. Having a fear of being alone, this challenge to confront myself resulted in a reflective, honest and personal piece, exploring solitude and self.
Volumes
A Film by Jann Choy
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
This film is made out of everyday sounds that surround me. Collecting these sounds which hints the way I am or the environment I'm in, I wanted to give a physicality to them. Hence, using a speaker and baking sugar, I played the sounds and see how the sugar and sounds moves and spread as I go through my day. Can the physicality of sound uncover information about myself?
Rear Window
A Film by Florian Luthi
Royal College of Art
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
A short love story between a car, a horse and some fragments of cinema.
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neither here nor there
A Film by Niamh Crowley
London South Bank University
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
The theme of my experimental short film ‘neither here nor there’ is being in two places at once. I wanted to reflect to uniquely odd feeling of living in a foreign country while not completely cutting ties with the place I used to live. Layering images of London represent the haze of a new place.The visuals represent London, but the audio is Dublin through and through. The sound of lapping waves on Sandymount Strand are what plays in my head between thoughts. The song is Alistrums March by The Gloaming, my mum’s favourites. It holds the mournful swell of homesickness as well as the soft comfort of familiarity. The text, “neither here nor there, and therefore home” is a quote from Irish poet Bernard O’Donoghue. This struck a chord within me, I’m hesitant to call either city home, I feel the title when given to one would take from the other. Home is two places at once and somehow neither. My story feels personal, but it is also cultural and historical. I made my film about my own experience, but I have no doubt that it’s not mine alone.
You’ve Been So Kind
A Film by Hoagy Hickson
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
Thinking through Andy Kaufman's 'Sleep Comedy', You've Been So Kind is an examination into difference in narrative logic. By supplanting Kaufman's logic from a stand up comedy set designed for when you are asleep into waking moments we can see the presence of a system of logic different to our own. In the gaps between the ontology of Kaufmans sleep and our awake, space is offered to consider alternative modes of narrative and logic. Alternatives that might be difficult to comprehend initially, demonstrate a break from our presumptions in narrative and hopefully our total, wider presumptions.
Short Story
A Film by Sophie Cero
Royal College of Art
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
Short Story began as a short piece of writing created as part of the 'Re-enactment' research group at Royal College of Art in October 2018. Since then the story has taken on several incarnations of form and voice, including a sinister bedtime installation, READ (5) shown recently in ‘There’s something lurking in the shadows that might be interesting’ at Dyson Gallery March 19, and as a short film.
Inside the Mosque
A Film by Mahfuj Sheikh
London Southbank University
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
When hundreds and thousands of people visit the mosque, who are the men that facilitate for them? Who are the people that clean and look after, who manage and run the place?
Dive into the inner workings of the mosque and understand who these people are. Why they do and how they do the things they do. What makes a mosque run. Know when they enter the mosque, do they have other meaning but to please their lord?
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Prepare
A Film by Alessandro Paiano
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
A journey with many turns, a journey with different speeds, a journey who’s root is recorded in a memory map. Between birth and death that's where the memory field is, a record that should be kept safe to show us how it was, how it is and contribute for a better will be.
We are living in a time where everything is decaying very fast, everything appears and disappears often without leaving any traces, a card castle always very close to collapse on itself. That makes us always ready for what will come next without giving any real weight to what is the present and the past. Time for me rhythm, tension, sounds, actions. You can get a feeling of all that in “Prepare” a London kitchen film realised in May 2019 were I am looking back at the ‘70 in a sort of conversation with Martha Rosler.
Looking back yes but not in a nostalgic way although in an analytical way trying to get the sense
and essence of those falling leaves.
Beyond Good and Evil
A Film by Cyrus Lamprecht
Central Saint Martins,UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
We do not know what lies in the world of the unconscious. We hope it is happiness, but only melancholy might exist in the unconscious world. Humans are forced to leave the boat or are abandoned when they reach the threshold of the conscious and unconscious world. We are bound by our reason, like a chain that restrains us from entering the unconscious world. We will be stuck in the threshold, and there will not be any way for us to move forward to the unconscious, or return to the conscious. A state of despair and emptiness is what we will experience. We are meant to suffer—the closest state of happiness we can achieve could be emptiness. Even though hope might lead to emptiness, when it does lead to something, no matter what it is, it could be happiness.
Parasite
A Film by Ella Barnard
Chelsea College of Art ,UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
The mother daughter relationship is complex and nuanced and like all relationships can be difficult to navigate. Conflict, violence, blurring of identity all mixed with a heavy dose of unconditional love and care.
Parasite is a film exploring this space and the interplay between the mother and daughter when exploring their relationship and their individual identities and roles within it.
Throughout the film there are emotional and physical shifts showing the ever changing and evolving connection. The desire to be separate and the desire to be connected. Navigating that tension between dependency and individuality.
Wander wonder
A Film by Daisy (DQ) Quinie
Chelsea College of Art ,UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
The mother daughter relationship is complex and nuanced and like all relationships can be difficult to navigate. Conflict, violence, blurring of identity all mixed with a heavy dose of unconditional love and care.
Parasite is a film exploring this space and the interplay between the mother and daughter when exploring their relationship and their individual identities and roles within it.
Throughout the film there are emotional and physical shifts showing the ever changing and evolving connection. The desire to be separate and the desire to be connected. Navigating that tension between dependency and individuality.
Nterlude
A Film by Huw Howell
Chelsea College of Art ,UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
This is a video exploring the coexistence of technology and nature. I like the juxtaposition of the tangible natural world with the immaterial technological world. The video is comprised of 2D animation and VHS video, and was made over the period of 6 months. The choice of having overlapping frames was inspired by the image of multiple windows open on a computer screen. The animated loop of a hand and brain is a symbol of human experience which is necessary for knowing and harnessing nature and technology. The video footage was filmed on a visit to New South Wales (Australia), the area I grew up. The natural locations where almost all places I had visited as a child, a time when digital video cameras where unavailable, so I chose to film the landscape in VHS.
sound&color
A Film by Maria Baga
London College of Communication, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
Two different forms of artistic expression have built the bridge to a solid friendship between Ruxandra and Alessia. This film is about what inspires the two friends to find meaning in art and is an overlook of their friendship in the last year together before leaving their hometown.
Please Continue
A Film by Gabriele Masiokaite,
Mahsa Sadresfahani
Royal College of Arts
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
Both coming from different cultural backgrounds (I am from Lithuania, and Mahsa, from Iran) both met in London and working together since.
Collaboratively working for 4years, while exploring idea of identity within construction, from old order into new.
Through naturally developed and constructed conversations, between moving images overlaying each other becoming one, through materiality of sounds how they echoes in their difference, remaining to belong to one single feeling of longing of freedom.
It might sounds a bit like it is a search for immortality beyond words, but the effort is to create a new manual design for togetherness. How can we continue with our exchange in this chaotic order,. The only way is to create another order. Sequence of events, sequence of images, sequence of certainty, only from the act of togetherness.
Notion of afterlife
A Film by Parichat Tanapiwattanakul
Wimbledon College of Arts，UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
In this short film, I exploring the cycle of life and the notion of an afterlife in some Buddhist belief which is seen in Thai cultural ceremony. Certainly, the passage of time always let every entity be able to die; they wilt, rot and fade away. However, perhaps, our irrevocable finality should be something to be overcome and extend in life after it. Thus, I embrace this notion and interpret through actual Chrysanthemum flower which is used broadly in a Funeral.
Control
A Film by Helen Dear
Wimbledon College of Arts，UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
Control is the process of living. Control is to influence an activity, person or situation as much as is deemed necessary, to gain a desired outcome, and then maintaining that authority until it doesn’t need to be that way anymore…. To be, is to control. To create, is to control…..
Bouche Fermee
A Film by Antonis Sideras
Wimbledon College of Arts，UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
Queerrot (they/them) is a gender queer mime who is perpetually in search of company. Bouche Fermee introduces a softer side of Queerrot to the audience. The theatrics fade away to the sound of a sentimental tune which exposes the hurt that lies underneath the mask. Queerrot’s heart shines through this tale of marginalisation as they overcome their invisible oppressors by embracing their ‘outcast’ nature.
Do your followers know you're dead
A Film by Thomas Walker
Chelsea College of Arts，UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
"Do your followers know you're dead" is a film I made based on a narrative, one being if you died, would your followers know? This idea stemmed from the imagery of the car (in the film) that had been parked for days and I thought about if the owner had died, and then had the naive thought of whether they're instagram followers would know. Then thought about my own mortality and this film was basically inspired by having an existential crisis.
Pop culture did it, so it must be cool
A Film by Thomas Walker
Chelsea College of Arts，UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
This film is more of an art film rather than one that holds a narrative, yet Its fun, there's a fun sheep that jumps about.
I wanted to express my ideas and understanding of what is post internet art and post internet aesthetic through this film and express the appropriation of post internet aesthetic through pop culture. But, the sheep is fun!