One Hundred Steps is a short film set inside two stately homes, Bantry House in Ireland and Musée Grobet-Labadié in France. Within the walls celebrating the great and the good, people play folk music, dance and sing, representing the voices and the cultures of the people who built these houses, worked in these houses, but…
In an empty city, at what feels like the end of time, an ancient woman recalls the world past, the world it was promised to be, and what came to be. Filmmaker Marta Pajek draws on Escher’s impossible objects and marries them to the socio-political ideas that seemed so plausible but were impossible to realise…
This comic-tragic short film opens with a shot of the Euromaidan protestors toppling the statue of Lenin in Ukraine’s capital. In tinging metal or rumbling granite, the remaining statues of Lenin lament to one another, their language of stone and steel translated for us in subtitles. “Another fallen comrade!” they sigh. To honour him, they…
Displaced is a short film about two ping-pong coaches who try to keep the sport alive in post-war Kosovo. Ermegan Kazazi and Jeton Mazreku effectively play themselves, depicting their real life struggles only a few years past. The result is a blend of drama and documentary. As Kosovo struggles to rebuild, its people struggle to…
That was fantastically interesting! So good, absolutely excellent. Where to start with this one? Ppff! Ok, so in a nutshell, All Light, Everywhere is about how photography and therefore film has its roots in scientific analysis, racism, militarism and oppression. Following those lines forward to present day, it focuses on police body cameras and aerial…
Constrain is a short film envisioning police oppression as theatre. We are all players in this piece of theatre, just without our consent, never knowing when we are stepping on stage. I know that synopsis makes it sound pretentious, but it is actually very powerful and very effective. As shown in the initial shot, the…
Glaswegian comic short film about a couple who accidentally kill a drug dealer while trying to raise the funds for a deposit on a house. Made by a bunch of pals on a budget of £2.50. Nice to see the city on screen.
A hand-drawn animation about a man having an existential crisis about his job. He is supposed to check for leaks in the water system by running taps, but must assign any findings over to plumbers to fix. The impotence and frustration of his job gets to him. A short film about the atomisation and alienation…
Unbelievably sweet short film about two guys making friends. Frank is a clueless American tourist who has brought a rolling suitcase to go camping in the snowy forest around Oslo. Luckily Thorir is on hand to point out to him that he’s trying to set up camp in the centre of a lake, which might…
A pissing contest between two middle-aged cyclists descends into a dance-off. However, no matter how much money you sink into your toys, you will never be young or cool again. Lol.