A grumpy old man is irritated by everything to do with Christmas, from the incessant Christmas music, to the wholesale takeover of the telly. Unable to escape it even in his own home, he’s jostled by the snowballs hitting his window. He runs outside to chase the weans away, not realising they were actually hitting…
Ronnie, a young autistic student, has his whole life disrupted by the Covid pandemic. He finds it very difficult to be out his routine, and is isolated from friends at his college and his club. He finds an outlet by combining his two passions – running and trains. Making this film with his family, Ronnie…
The Secret Life of Jim Henry is about a polyglot who learns to speak the language of dust. Dust just constantly whispers about what it was before it was dust. Which kinda means all those ghosts whispering folk can hear is just dust trying to communicate.
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.