SHORT FILMS
A Pointless Film
A Film by Sihui Kuang
University College London
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
A film student buries herself in cinema to avoid her miserable family, and imagines her family members as characters in a film that she writes and directs. In her film, her father turns into a cactus and her mother no longer has to live in the illusion of having a perfect family. Her seemingly ridiculous imagination is her only escape from her mundane life, until the bubble of fantasy pops.
Mother's Gut
A Film by Matty Mancey
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
Using the human micro-biome as the stage for the United Kingdom, specifically Yorkshire, we follow a girl accidentally ingest herself and travel through her gut. She is transformed on her journey by encounters with fearful, apathetic and aggressive bacteria. The film plays on fears of foreign bodies invading us and our country. It is a child's fantasy of their mother's journey to a new unfamiliar land, made more uncanny and dreamlike with the use of classic special effects and a sci-fi experimental soundtrack.
Call Out My Name
A Film by Aikaterini Mimikou
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
Five characters celebrating Christmas over lunch. They talk to each other.
Who are they?
Who has the power? Who pulls the strings behind those stories?
What’s that language?
I can’t read everything, this is too fast!
Who has the power?
Furry hats and inappropriate shirts,
weird hairstyles and heavy jewelry,
Dobermans and Alzheimer.
Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Mothers-in-law.
Husbands, Fathers, Sons, Uncles, Fathers-in-law.
Family. Feminism. Social class. Hierarchy. Power.
A Contemplation of a Black Pond
A Film by Azul van Peborgh
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
A Contemplation of a Black Pond’ is an isolated monologue about two solitary unities, a weave contemplating a black pond. These two entities are lost in space and time, they are floating in the glitch of space and time, in another parallel line of life. The pond is a hole in the earth so deep it can be defined as a tunnel that cracks an earth in half, nestled in a withdrawal quarantine in an open land in a vast void. What is only visible is the crust of that hole that can be interpreted as a black pond in the ground since it is its surface which is only visible for others. The weave is lost because it detached innocently from its power source. Now, it is floating in the darkness and timelessness of space. It is a monologue of one unity encountering another unity and the process of its metamorphosis.
State of Limbo
A Film by George Turner and Laura Hendry
City, University of London
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
The UK is the only country in Europe with no time limit on immigration detention. For those awaiting decisions on their immigration status from the Home Office, this means life in a precarious state - unable to work or study, never knowing whether you will be detained, if so how long for, and whether the battle to remain will ultimately end in your removal from the UK. Our film follows two individuals with different stories. Luqman is fighting to stay in the UK on medical grounds; Owen is contesting a criminal deportation order. Different circumstances have led them to where we find them, but they are both living in a state of limbo.
The Beeches
A Film by Louis Allen
City, University of London
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
In this short, observational documentary, shot in the style of ‘Sunderland till I die’, we go access all areas with the characters who keep the club running - the club secretary who balances a full-time factory job with 40 hours of unpaid volunteering; the changing room manager who keeps the players well-fuelled with pre-game Haribo Tangfastics; the groundsman who moved to Tividale in his infancy and has worked there all his adult life.
Nature of the Threat
A Film by David Kamara
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
What suggestive power images hold considering they become the building blocks of our “identity”. Delve into the subconscious mind of a young man who is confronted by a past not directly linked to his own. The protagonist will have to traverse through trauma and themes of segregation, death, and separation in order to overcome this labyrinth. Join the protagonist through the twist and turns of his own mind as he discovers new things in this world of images.
Should We Starve Terminal Cancer?
A Film by Freddie Ferguson, Georgia Stewardson, and Saffron Amis
City University of London
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
Should We Starve Terminal Cancer? explores a growing, patient-lead movement that focuses on the metabolic approach to tackling cancer. Reporter, Georgia Stewardson, follows her mum Yvonne who last year was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer which had spread to her liver and spine. In addition to chemotherapy patients like Yvonne have been fighting back, adopting a cocktail of repurposed drugs, supplements and a strict diet. Following Yvonne and speaking to a range of medical, science and nutritional professionals the documentary assesses the efficacy of this protocol and asks why it is not included in the NHS standard of care.
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Fodder For the Feed
A Film by Dylan Serventi
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
It consists series of vignettes about the effects computers are having people’s lives both politically and inter-personally. The hope was to create something with a ‘slippery grasp on reality’, confronting the idea that the “real world” is somehow separate from the “online world”. The video does take place largely in digital / online spaces but tries to show the very real ramifications they can have on the people who occupy them and on the “real world”.
Waterfall
A Film by Qiaoer JIn
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
Waterfall depicts a fictional place where the tourists become workers/ “‘maids’ of the mist” to re-active the nature attraction in order to get the view of “nature”. This work intends to explore how tourism shapes the concept of "nature" and people’s perception of the natural landscape.
Left Back: Rejection, Pressure and Mental health in football academies
A Film by Laurene Rey-Millet,
Sam Lebus, and Richard Tudor
City, University of London
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford, Steven Gerrard, David Beckham. We hear the names of footballers who make it from a club's youth academy to the first team chanted from the stands every week. But what about the players who commit everything to being in those footballer's boots, but get rejected from the academy system and drop out of football altogether?
The Black Balloons
A Film by Gia Strauss
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
Films have always possessed certain qualities relating to an aspect of time that does not necessarily exist in other domains of experience. In truth it is an
illusion of time, and without the illusion of time a film cannot exist (it becomes
merely a series of ‘stills’). The purpose of my film is to consider the role of time
within film, to identify those aspects of time that cannot exist outside the world
of film, to look at the relationship between time within and beyond the experience of film, and to explore the essential connection between time and both physical and psychological movement in the creation of film.
Golden Eagle
A Film by Ralitsa Arabadzhieva
London South Bank University
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
'Golden Eagle' is a documentary about the life of golden eagles in Scotland and the challenges they face in order to survive on the land of the United Kingdom. A film highlighting the fact that wildlife and humans can only live along each other when people become willing to compromise with their lifestyle, and learn to share the land with raptors. This documentary aims to educate people about the life of golden eagles and why they are only thriving in the most remote places in Britain, instead of living and thriving amongst people.
Little Bird
Lois Bentley
University Arts London, Central Saint Martins
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
Bernard (83), engineer, trips and lands himself disorientated on a hospital ward. Is he destined to join the growing ranks of the ‘frail elderly’? Perhaps the strong call of his grand-daughter Letia(9), can bring the helpful wind that gives him back his wings.
Little Bird opens with a rich and subtle piece of social history. There was no National Health Service (NHS), no safety net. We used to know that “we need to sort it”. Deep within our everyday living we learned to rely on each other.
In the film we see that medical training brings experts into our lives. They stand or fall by adopting the latest medical science. We welcome technical expertise, but is something important being dismissed?
Our film will expose and explore these patterns of thinking. Our audience can enjoy the inter-play across three diverse generations.
catandmousecatandmousecatandmouse
A Film by Euan Gubbins
Central Saint Martins, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
It's a video that was made in Ireland, where I visited three places, Dublin, Belfast and parts of the Northern Irish countryside. This led to improvising a narrative structure of three interlocking question marks; in each place expectations were confronted with reality, leading to a confusion and resolution. For me the video is about somehow looking at the islands we live on as a place disconnected from nations and nationalism, a place to move around in. The film attempts to use a Jacques Ranciere derived idea of the image as the emancipatory portrayal of a possibility to present this idea. I became obsessed with visiting Ireland to find the ghosts of writers and where parts of my family originated; the result was an affirmation of the living and a renewed distrust of romanticism.
Not Wanted
A Film by Dariush Asadi
(Standpoint Pictures)
Middlesex University
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
Thomas, a socially isolated 16-year-old school dropout lives with his abusive father in a council estate. Thomas is struggling to know where he belongs in life. But when he bumps into his former classmate and immigrant Jamal, Thomas starts to regain the human connection that he never had in a long while. But as these two boys from two different worlds hide their struggles it’s only a matter of time before either Thomas confides in Jamal through the sense of belonging and revelation or carry on his shameful lifestyle alone as the restrictions of both Thomas and Jamal’s parents start to boil.
films you watch when you're ill
A Film by Finn Rabbitt Dove
The Glasgow School of Art
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
Like the vivid out-of-body experience of a fever, films you watch when you’re ill pulls you into a world of heightened senses where the boundaries between what is natural and what is synthetic are confused. Things are not always as they seem, and as the camera moves closer, we find worlds within worlds. Sound intensifies, a benign waterfall becomes a roar as a painting appears to animate into life. Images pulse into form out of darkness, drawing us through shifting landscapes that blur so it’s unclear where one ends, and another begins. There are parrots and penguins and pink flamingoes here, but few humans, yet signs of their presence are everywhere.
Painting of the Wall
A film by Lelia Byron
Chelsea College of Arts, UAL
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
After having painted "the wall" together, a group of artists plan what to do, afraid they might soon be caught.
Ways of not seeing
A Film by Hanyue Tang, Claudia Sambo
Chelsea college of arts, UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
Almost 50 years since the airing on BBC2 of John Berger’s seminal TV programme Ways of Seeing, Hanyue Tang and Claudia Sambo, under the fictional name of ‘Berger & Berger’ explore ways of engaging with the contemporary art gallery without looking at art in their mockumentary Ways of Not Seeing. This Chinese-Italian collaboration is concerned with employing humour and absurdity as an empowering tool, and as a means to examine conventions and power relations in institutional settings
lúbtha
A Film by Ethan McDowell
London South Bank University
To be screened Saturday July 6 and Sunday July 7.
'lúbtha' is a short film inspired by true events and follows the story of a teenager dealing with his sexuality whilst having to grow up in early 90s Northern Ireland. As physical and mental abuse become a daily struggle, Fintan retreats into a world of anger and silence. With no solution on the horizon, he yearns to escape from the small town he’s been trapped in all his life, bringing nothing but his younger brother. As he comes closer to planning his journey to freedom, one night he is shown the reality of acceptance and love.
The First Saturday of May
A Film by Ethan McDowell
London South Bank University
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
'lúbtha' is a short film inspired by true events and follows the story of a teenager dealing with his sexuality whilst having to grow up in early 90s Northern Ireland. As physical and mental abuse become a daily struggle, Fintan retreats into a world of anger and silence. With no solution on the horizon, he yearns to escape from the small town he’s been trapped in all his life, bringing nothing but his younger brother. As he comes closer to planning his journey to freedom, one night he is shown the reality of acceptance and love.
We ask and we tell and we cast the spell that we are under
A Film by Aaron Ratajczyk
Goldsmiths
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
Movement is different from the space covered. Space covered is past, movement is present, the act of covering.
Wizards
A film by George Baker
London South Bank University
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
What if Hogwarts was a state school in Peckham? Three young wizard students embark on an epic quest to lift a wicked witches curse, after they wake up after a big night out and their magic doesn’t work.
Coherence (or maybe not...)
A film by Bo Fan
Chelsea College of Arts,UAL
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To be screened Sunday July 7 and Wednesday July 10.
Here is the problem: images, texts, sounds – at heart – are longing to make sense. It seems to be about being a human being. Desire, obsession and reminiscence lubricate a diaristic journey; travelling through different spaces, forming narratives, then shuffling around, yearning for coherence.
Andante Misterioso
A film by Bo Fan
Chelsea College of Arts,UAL
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To be screened Sunday July 7 and Monday July 8.
a film that is experimenting with the typical classical music structure - Sonata - exposition, development, and recapitulation, taking you to a symphonic journal of wondering between sex and death and more.
The Passenger
A film by Olivier Pagy
Central Saint Martins,UAL
To be screened Sunday July 7 and Tuesday July 9.
Art is the mime of an immaterial reality that positions/creates itself through a web of reasoning that exists as an outcome of human reaction to emotion. By illustrating the spiderweb itself, the writer points to the relationship between his world view and his perception of immateriality which reinforces the idea that art is the mime of our internal worlds.
What am I trying to do?
Trying to feel something by adding and adding and adding, but if the feeling isn’t mine, is just general stuff going to bring it up? So, I’m looking for a feeling of permanence, like a painting, when it’s good, there’s something indescribable, a changing elements in its quality. I think that that place is the imagination.