Grim. Down is an animated short film about a hole that gets bigger the more is put into it, and which has a morbid attraction for people. An analogy for the Covid pandemic, the narration is in the form of emails back and forth between two workers, one of whom was initially sent to assess…
Filters is a short film about Kira, a woman whose insecurities are increasingly exacerbated by image filters. Kira has years of work experience in admin, but struggles to find a job. Doing interviews over Zoom, she notes a distinct drop-off in interest when potential employers see she has Down Syndrome. Her friend suggests she use…
A horror-comedy short film. It’s like Hitchcock’s The Birds but with fly-tipped mattresses. Gotta say, I really enjoyed watching the ominous lurking of a dingy tartan mattress. Full to the brim with horror tropes, beautifully reworked for a ludicrous threat. Just when you thought it was safe to emerge after the pandemic, little did you…
Really liked this one. 4 people select a work of art of their choosing in the Tate galleries, and express their reaction to it through dance. Some of the dances take from the meaning of the artwork, some the form, some simply from the emotion it evokes. The first dancer takes Maggi Hambling’s 2016, a…
A woman interacts with animations of things that annoy her over the course of her day. The first film endeavour of Wendy Belcher, it is an amusing look at mundane irritation. Enjoyably curmudgeon.
Tom Lightfoot works at a call centre that is essentially Google over the phone. He has the answers to everything except how to deal with his secret. Inside his heart is a flutter, and over the course of this short film, he finds the courage to set it free. A beautiful design appears on his…
Music video for Danielle Makes Songs’s Can’t Stop Drawing. It is about her love of expressing herself through artwork, be it drawing or painting. She dances, sings and signs about her creative drive.
A cute little animated short about a Covid-19 virus called Colin. In down-to-earth comedy fashion, he apologies for all the fuss he’s caused, which has admittedly got out of hand, but he just wanted to travel and see the world. Now he’s seen everywhere, he dispenses handy hygiene advice to get things back to normal.…
Went to see the Oska Bright Film Festival’s Best of the Fest 2022 selection. First up was This Is News Radio, an Australian comedy short film. It shows the radio presenters playing all their jingles live, instead of just using a mixer of recordings, and it’s actually really amusing. Their producer is like, ‘Again, with…
That was bloody brilliant! Have you ever seen something that was absolutely barmy, and excellent at the same time? That’s this. As a total newcomer to Peter Greenaway’s films, and this being the second of his films I’ve seen in a week, watching them feels like smoking strong dope, or that particular kind of absinthe…