Explore York Experience Film 15 venues. 200 films. 4 days. 8 - 11 November 2012 www.asff.co.uk Festival Partners
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ASFF opens on Thursday 8th November and continues until Sunday 11th November.
The time for short film across the city of York has come again, and the credits Aesthetica team couldn’t be more excited. The judging and programming Cherie Federico Dale Donley process has, once again, been a fantastic journey. We are delighted to screen Grace Henderson films from over 20 countries in a rich and diverse programme, expanding Helena Culliney choice for you, the viewers. Genres include drama, documentary, music video, Rob Cheung Laura Barr artists’ film, comedy, thriller, animation and experimental. Elli McFarlane Hannah Clugston This year’s masterclasses include Danny Cohen (The King’s Speech) in Katie O’Neill Abbe Robinson partnership with BAFTA on cinematography, Warp Films on the latest in film Chris Brooke production, Raindance, Channel 4, a lively panel discussion on the implications Lumen Arts of film criticism, Chris Jones, author ofThe Guerilla Film Maker’s Handbook, and award-winning screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh (Nowhere Boy and Control). practical information The Festival Hub is located at Visit York, 1 Museum We have a number of events for networking, such as Meet the Filmmakers, as Street, York , YO1 7DT. well as special screening programmes from BAFTA, Warp Films and Yorkshire (+44) (0) 1904 629 137 Film Archive. It’s going to be a weekend fuelled by creativity with the added Some of the films may bonus of experiencing the best in new and innovative independent filmmaking. contain flashing images.
Due to the historical nature of some of our venues, seating is allocated on a All films are screened in original language; if this is first come, first served basis. However, we have programmed enough screenings other than English, English to ensure you’ll be able to see all of the films that you would like to, but if there subtitles will be provided. is a specific film that you’d like to see, please arrive at the venue early. All films Most films are C12A, are up for an award in their category alongside Best of Fest and the People’s some may be C15. Choice Award. We look forward to welcoming you to ASFF 2012. See venue for details. Inside View: Talks from the Industry
On Friday 9th November, a series of talks will take place at York St John University and York Theatre Royal. Drinks reception for masterclass attendees at York St John (6-7pm).
Warp Films The Latest in Film Production Venue Barry Ryan, Head of Production for Warp Films, York Theatre Royal (Dead Man’s Shoes, This Is England) will bring you the latest in film production and provide tips for the Time 12:00 - 13:30 best way to get ahead in the industry. He will explore the intricacies of film production and offer insights Price into what the future looks like for filmmakers. £8
BAFTA Danny Cohen on Cinematography Venue BAFTA nominated Cinematographer Danny Cohen York Theatre Royal (The King’s Speech, The Boat That Rocked ) will join us to discuss his creative process. Fresh from completing Time 14:30 - 16:00 Tom Hooper’s adaptation of musical Les Misérables, he will discuss the process of working with directors Price across features, shorts and television drama. £8
Chris Jones It’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Filmmaker... Venue But, on the flipside, we now compete in an York St John University overcrowded filmmakers’ world. Chris Jones, filmmaker, Director of London Screenwriters’ Time 12:30 - 14:00 Festival and co-creater and author of The Guerilla Film Maker’s Handbook will discuss how to get your Price production moving in this current landscape. £8
4 Matt Greenhalgh Matt Greenhalgh on Screenwriting Venue BAFTA award winning Screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh York St John University (Control, Nowhere Boy) will give insight into the finer Time details of screenwriting in a lively discussion. Find 15:00 - 16:00 out how to make your screenplays stand out, new approaches to screenwriting, and tips on how to Price succeed in the industry. £8
Raindance Filmmaking: The Essentials for Success Venue Chris Thomas of Raindance Film Festival will give you York St John University a viable plan and dozens of filmmaking tips on what Time works in the business. Including a troubleshooting 16:30 - 18:00 session covering finding cast and crew, shooting tips, getting your film seen, climbing the career ladder, Price distribution, exhibition and how to get paid. £8
Tabitha Jackson The Art of Television Venue Tabitha Jackson is Channel 4’s Commissioning York St John University Editor for Arts. Tabitha will focus on the recent Time series All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson 13:00 - 14:00 Perry, illustrating television’s attempts to work with artists and present visual art in a new, more Price accessible way. £8
Ed Atkins / Patrick Ward Art on Film Venue Screening Defining Holes , Dr Sam Lackey, Curator York St John University at The Hepworth Wakefield, will discuss with Ed and Time Patrick video art and explore the boundaries between 15:00 - 16:00 contemporary practice and traditional filmmaking. Reflecting on their own work, both Ed and Patrick will Price explain how they use this medium as an art form. £8
5 Inside View: Talks from the Industry
Myles McLeod Creating an Animated World Venue BAFTA winning Animators The Brothers McLeod York St John University have worked for BBC and Disney, directed TV Time commercials for Guinness and Skittles, and worked 13:00 - 14:30 with Tate and Wii/PlayStation. Myles McLeod will provide insight into creating an animated world, Price £8 exploring the process of shaping characters.
Panel Discussion the The Trouble with Film Criticism Venue How do critics affect the industry? Ginette Vincen- York St John University trouble deau, Professor of Film Studies at King’s College Time with London, contributor to Sight & Sound and BBC Radio; 13:00 - 14:00 Jason Wood, Curzon Cinemas Programmer and Ac- film quisitions Advisor for Artificial Eye, and Matt Bochen- Price criticism ski, Editor of Little White Lies address this question. £8
Channel 4: Ravi Amaratunga Media Revolution Venue With the arrival of the DSLR revolution and online York St John University video platforms like Vimeo, the way that audiences Time are consuming and producing media has changed. 16:00 - 17:00 Channel 4’s Short Form Editor Ravi Amaratunga will showcase some of the best works from Random Acts, Price The Shooting Gallery. Followed by a lively Q&A. £8
Hussain Currimbhoy Making Your Short Film Work For You Venue Hussain Currimbhoy, Programmer at Sheffield Doc/ York St John University Fest, will cover the programming principles and Time processes of the festival. This masterclass will offer 14:00 - 15:30 insights into ensuring your film gets noticed, and advice on getting your film onto the festival circuit Price and how filmmakers should approach festivals. £8
6 Schedule of Events Prices
Thursday 8th November 3 day screening pass - £25 Opening Night at City Screen. Gives full access to all festival screenings from Screening of films and after-party. 9 - 11 November, including the BAFTA, Warp Films and Yorkshire Film Archive special programmes. Guests to the Opening Night will receive a complimentary drink with their ticket and an ASFF 1 day screening pass - £12 Goody Bag filled with a selection of great gifts. Gives access to all of the screenings taking place on your chosen day of the festival, meaning you Limited tickets are available for this won’t miss out if you can’t attend on all 3 days. event so be sure to book early. Saturday Night Party: Friday 9th November Meet the Filmmakers - £6 Screenings across the city throughout the day. Event at St William’s College from 7pm until late. A series of talks at York St John University and Screening at 8pm, followed by a panel York Theatre Royal during the afternoon, fol- discussion with our filmmakers and lowed by a drinks reception and networking. networking opportunities, music and bar.
Please note we can only accommodate a limited Closing Day Event: Awards Ceremony -£6 number of people per talk, so please book early. All winners will be announced at our award ceremony at the Yorkshire Museum Saturday 10th November from 6pm - 9pm. Free drink with your Screenings across the city throughout the day. ticket from 6pm and networking. Meet the Filmmakers event at St William’s College from 7pm, with screening at 8pm, followed Category winners will be announced, as well as by a panel discussion with our filmmakers Best of Fest Award and the People’s Choice. and networking opportunities. DJ and bar. network at our Offical BAR: 1331 Sunday 11th November One of York’s most popular bar/restaurants, 1331 Limited screenings across the city. is an ideal place to socialise with friends old and Award Ceremony at the Yorkshire Museum. new between ASFF screenings and events. Tucked away inside the venue is Brandy Brown’s Little An award ceremony will round off the festi- Cinema, a boutique cinema space providing val at the Yorkshire Museum from 6pm, free a luxurious viewing experience with its leather drink with your ticket and networking. Cat- reclining chairs and sofas. The cinema will be egory winners will be announced, as well as screening our comedy and drama programmes Best of Fest Award and the People’s Choice. throughout the festival, allowing you to combine networking and catching the films you want to see.
Please book all tickets by visiting www.asff.co.uk or call us on + 44 (0)1904 629 137.
7 Special Screenings: BAFTA/Warp/Yorkshire Film Archive
ASFF is proud to host a programme of special screenings of award-winning shorts, animation and archive film.
BAFTA ASFF is proud to host a special screening of BAFTA nominated short film and short animation this year. On Friday 9 November, attendees will be able to experience innovative and experimental film from a selection of the most talented British filmmakers, including this year’s BAFTA winners for Short Film, Pitch Black Heist, and Short Animation, A Morning Stroll. Showing eight shorts in one unique feature-length presentation, this screening gives you the opportunity to watch incredibly creative and engaging stories from those who will go on to become some of the world’s top filmmakers and animators. www.bafta.org.
Chalk Mwansa The Great Martina Amati / Gavin Rungano Nyoni / Gabriel Emerson / James Bolton Gauchet (Icreatefilms Ltd) UK, 2010, 18m 24s UK / Zambia, 2011, 23m 9s A gymnast selected for A young boy who aspires to be the national training camp a hero embarks upon a journey discovers something new to prove his greatness, with about bodies and boys. unexpected consequences.
Only Sound Remains Pitch Black Heist Arash Ashtiani / Anshu John Maclean / Poddar (London Film Gerardine O’Flynn School) Iran / UK, 2010, 15m UK, 2011, 12m In the wake of the post- Liam and Michael are election protests in Iran, Babak professional safe crackers who and Nahid try to hide bad news meet on a job to relieve an from Babak’s grandmother. office safe of its contents.
Two and Two Abuelas Babak Anvari / Gavin Cullen Afarin Eghbal / Francesca (Flick Art Productions) Gardiner (National Film UK, 2011, 8m 25s and Television School) In a school governed by UK, 2011, 9m 14s a strict regime, pupils are An old woman eagerly informed that simple facts are awaits the birth of her no longer true. grandchild.
Bobby Yeah A Morning Stroll Robert Morgan Grant Orchard / Sue Goffe UK, 2011, 23m (Studio AKA) Bobby Yeah finds himself UK, 2011, 7m in deep trouble when he A New Yorker walks past a steals the favourite pet of chicken on his morning stroll; some extremely dangerous we’re left wondering which individuals. one is the real city slicker.
8 ASFF is proud to host a programme of special screenings of award-winning shorts, animation and archive film.
Warp Films Now celebrating its 10 th anniversary, Warp Films is one of the most exciting production companies in the UK. With a string of successful films such asThis Is England, Submarine and Four Lions, Warp Films has become synonymous with the best in independent British film. The team at arpW Films skilfully captures not only the essence of our times, but also our hearts and minds. Here at ASFF, we have worked with Warp Films to bring you a special programme, in association with WarpFilms10, to celebrate some of their earlier works, as well as their commitment to the short form. Saturday 10 November. www.warpfilms10.com.
My Wrongs Rubber Johnny #8245-8249 and 117 Chris Cunningham Chris Morris (Warp Films) (Warp Films) UK, 2005, 6 m, 9s UK, 2002, 12 m Meet Johnny, a hyperactive, BAFTA winning debut shape-shifting mutant child. for both Chris Morris Featuring music by legendary and Warp Films. electronic composer Aphex Twin.
Scummy Man Dog Altogether Paul Fraser Paddy Considine (Warp Films) (Warp Films) UK, 2006, 16 m UK, 2007, 16m She won’t take it lying A man plagued by rage down. Scummy Man is scours the landscape, brutally honest, intense searching for redemption and not afraid. in his life.
Curtains The Organ Grinder’s Monkey Julian Barratt / Jake & Dinos Chapman Dan Jemmett (Warp Films) (Warp Films) UK, 2011, 15m 15s UK, 2009, 15m Pablo follows Ifans from It’s the final curtain call for pub to studio, pursuing a heavy drinking, worn-out his dream, heading for a Punch and Judy man. sticky end.
Yorkshire Film Archive Yorkshire Shorts, by Yorkshire Film Archive, is a series of short films from its collection Seasons, introducing cinema-going audiences to regional film archive content. YFA took a more creative and artistic approach to interpreting and curating the film footage – sourcing a vast range of material from the collections to curate the final four films: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. ASFF will be screening Seasons on Friday 9 November and Sunday 11 November.
9 Venues
Taking place across the city of York, ASFF will screen in a number of iconic locations all within walking distance of one another, combining the historical with the contemporary. Explore our 2012 venues below.
Visit york ASFF Festival Hub Visit York is York’s official tourist information centre and ASFF Hub where wristbands and tickets will be available.
Our staff will be there throughout to help with any queries you have about the festival.
Fully accessible.
City Screen York St John University Overlooking the River This prestigious civic Ouse, this cultural venue is university, with an award the heart of independent winning campus, has roots film in the city. going back to the 1840s. Fully accessible. Fully accessible.
Micklegate Bar Museum Mansion House Situated on the route of The Mansion House is the York’s famous walls walk, official residence of the Micklegate Bar Museum has Lord Mayors of York, and as stood sentinel to the city for such it is the first and oldest over 800 years. Mayoral residence in the country.
10 GuildHall Barley Hall Located behind the Mansion A stunning medieval house House and on the River rediscovered in the 1980s Ouse, the Guildhall has been and restored to its original the site of government and splendour. Partial access. commerce since 1445.
Thirteen Thirty One York St Mary’s This popular gastro-bar York St Mary’s is a beautiful is a hive of activity, medieval church which housing a luxury cinema opened as a contemporary with fully reclining seats visual art venue in 2004. and table service.
St William’s College White Stuff Built in 1461, St William’s Renowned for its quirky College, under the license features, this boutique granted by King Edward IV, fashion and lifestyle store was originally a college for in the heart of York houses Minster priests. a relaxing boutique cinema. Partial access.
York Explore Library Bar Lane Studios Explore York Library is Bar Lane Studios is an a flexible space that is engaging combined arts a modern city library, space offering studios and which is located in the workshops. Visit for the heart of the city. artists’ film reading area. Partial access.
York Theatre Royal Yorkshire Museum A theatre since 1744, built Opened in 1830 by the on the ruins of St. Leonard’s Yorkshire Philosophical Hospital, the building is a Society and recently perfect blend of architectural restored to its former styles from the past three Georgian glory. centuries. Partial access. Fully accessible.
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City Screen Bar Lane Bar Lane York Explore 1331 Barley Hall Micklegate (Basement) (Gallery) (Basement) Library Bar Museum 10:00 Art 1 (on Loop All Day) Documentary 1 Documentary 1 10:00 - 17:00 Music Video 10:15 - 11:15 10:15 - 11:15 11:00 10:30 - 11:45 Comedy 1 Thriller 1 11:00 - 12:00 11:15 - 12:15 Art 2 (c15) Documentary 2 Documentary 2 12:00 (on Loop All Day) 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 10:00 - 17:00 Animation 1 12:00 - 13:00 Thriller 2 Drama 1 Drama 4 13:00 12:30 - 13:30 12:30 - 14:00 12:30 - 14:00 Art 3 Documentary 3 Documentary 3 (on Loop All Day) Animation 2 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 10:00 - 17:00 13:15 -14:15 14:00 Thriller 3 14:00 - 15:00 Drama 2 Art 4 Animation 3 14:15 - 15:45 Comedy 2 Documentary 4 Documentary 4 15:00 (on Loop All Day) 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 -15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 10:00 - 17:00 Thriller 4 15:15 - 16:15 16:00 Music Video Documentary 5 Experimental 5 15:45 - 17:00 Drama 3 Drama 5 15:45 - 16:45 (On Loop All Day) 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:30 Thriller 5 10:00 - 17:00 17:00 16:30 - 17:30 Documentary 6 17:00 - 18:00
18:00 Comedy 3 18:00 - 19:00 (c15) 19:00
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14 City Screen Bar Lane Bar Lane York Explore 1331 Barley Hall Micklegate Mansion GuildHall St William’s St William’s White Yorkshire (Basement) (Gallery) (Basement) Library Bar Museum House College 1 College 2 stuff Museum Art 1 Drama 1 Experimental 1 Music Video (on Loop All Day) Documentary 1 Documentary 1 10 :00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 17:00 10:00 - 17:00 Music Video 10:15 - 11:15 10:15 - 11:15 on Loop all day 10:30 - 11:45 Comedy 1 Drama 10 Thriller 1 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:30 11:15 - 12:15 Art 2 (c15) Documentary 2 Documentary 2 Experimental 2 (on Loop All Day) 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 10:00 - 17:00 Animation 1 Drama 2 12:00 - 13:00 12:00 - 13:30 Thriller 2 Drama 1 Drama 4 12:30 - 13:30 12:30 - 14:00 12:30 - 14:00 Art 3 Documentary 3 Documentary 3 Drama 6 Experimental 3 (on Loop All Day) Animation 2 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:30 13:00 - 14:00 10:00 - 17:00 13:15 -14:15
Thriller 3 Yorkshire 14:00 - 15:00 Drama 2 Film Archive Art 4 Animation 3 14:15 - 15:45 Comedy 2 Documentary 4 Documentary 4 14:00 - 15:00 Experimental 4 (on Loop All Day) 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 -15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 10:00 - 17:00 Drama 12 Thriller 4 15:00 - 16.30 15:15 - 16:15 Drama 10 (c15) Music Video Documentary 5 15:30 - 17:00 Experimental 5 15:45 - 17:00 Drama 3 Drama 5 15:45 - 16:45 Animation 2 (On Loop All Day) 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:00 Thriller 5 10:00 - 17:00 Drama 7 16:30 - 17:30 16:30 - 18:00 Documentary 6 Drama 13 17:00 - 18:00 17:00 - 18:30 Comedy 1 17:30 - 18:30 Comedy 3 Thriller 2 18:00 - 19:00 18:00 - 19:00 (c15) Drama 8 18:30 - 20:00 Drama 14 Comedy 2 Special 19:00 - 20:30 19:00 - 20:30 programme - Drama 11 Thriller 3 BAFTA award 19:30 - 21:00 19:30 - 20:30 winning and (c15) nominated shorts and Animation Drama 9 19:00 - 21:00 20:30 - 22:00 Thriller 4 Drama 3 21:00 - 22:00 21:00 - 22:30 Comedy 4 21:30 - 22:30
15 FIlm Schedule: Saturday 10th November
City Screen Bar Lane Bar Lane York Explore 1331 Barley Hall Micklegate (Basement) (Gallery) (Basement) Library Bar Museum 10:00 Art 1 Drama 14 (on Loop All Day) 10:00 - 11:30 Documentary 4 Documentary 6 10:00 - 17:00 Music Video 10:15 - 11:15 10:15 - 11:15 11:00 10:30 - 11:45 Comedy 1 Thriller 5 11:00 - 12:00 11:15 - 12:15 Art 2 (c15) Documentary 3 Documentary 5 12:00 (on Loop All Day) 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 10:00 - 17:00 Animation 3 Drama 13 12:00 - 13:00 12:00 - 13:30 Thriller 4 Drama 11 13:00 12:30 - 13:30 12:30 - 14:00 Art 3 (c15) Documentary 2 Documentary 4 (on Loop All Day) Animation 2 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 10:00 - 17:00 13:15 -14:15 14:00 Thriller 3 Drama 12 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 - 15:30 Art 4 Animation 1 (c15) Comedy 2 Documentary 1 Documentary 3 15:00 (on Loop All Day) 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 -15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 10:00 - 17:00 Thriller 2 15:15 - 16:15 16:00 Music Video Documentary 6 Experimental 5 15:45 - 17:00 Drama 10 15:45 - 16:45 (On Loop All Day) 16:00 - 17:30 Thriller 1 10:00 - 17:00 17:00 16:30 - 17:30 Documentary 5 17:00 - 18:00
18:00 Comedy 3 18:00 - 19:00 (c15) 19:00
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16 City Screen Bar Lane Bar Lane York Explore 1331 Barley Hall Micklegate Mansion GuildHall St William’s St William’s White Yorkshire York (Basement) (Gallery) (Basement) Library Bar Museum House College 1 College 2 stuff Museum St Mary’s Art 1 Drama 14 Drama 1 Experimental 4 Music Video Experimental 5 (on Loop All Day) 10:00 - 11:30 Documentary 4 Documentary 6 10 :00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 17:00 10:00 - 11.30 10:00 - 17:00 Music Video 10:15 - 11:15 10:15 - 11:15 on Loop all day 10:30 - 11:45 Comedy 1 Drama 6 Thriller 5 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:30 11:15 - 12:15 Art 2 (c15) Documentary 3 Documentary 5 Experimental 3 (on Loop All Day) 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 10:00 - 17:00 Animation 3 Drama 13 Drama 2 Art 1 12:00 - 13:00 12:00 - 13:30 12:00 - 13:30 12:00 - 13:00 Thriller 4 Drama 11 12:30 - 13:30 12:30 - 14:00 Art 3 (c15) Documentary 2 Documentary 4 Drama 14 Experimental 2 (on Loop All Day) Animation 2 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:30 13:00 - 14:00 10:00 - 17:00 13:15 -14:15 Art 2 13:30 - 14:30 Thriller 3 Drama 12 Drama 3 (c15) 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 - 15:30 14:00 - 15:30 Art 4 Animation 1 (c15) Comedy 2 Documentary 1 Documentary 3 Experimental 1 (on Loop All Day) 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 -15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 Art 3 10:00 - 17:00 Drama 13 14:45 - 15:45 Thriller 2 15:00 - 16.30 15:15 - 16:15 Music Video Documentary 6 Experimental 5 15:45 - 17:00 Drama 10 15:45 - 16:45 Drama 4 Drama 12 Art 4 (On Loop All Day) 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:00 Thriller 1 10:00 - 17:00 Drama 9 (c15) 16:30 - 17:30 16:30 - 18:00 Documentary 5 17:00 - 18:00
Comedy 3 Thriller 4 18:00 - 19:00 18:00 - 19:00 (c15) Drama 8 18:30 - 20:00 Meet the Special Filmmakers Programme Drama 5 Thriller 5 19:00 -23:00 Warp Shorts 19:30 - 21:00 19:30 - 20:30 19:00 -21:00 Drinks from 19:00 - 20:00
Drama 7 screening and 20:30 - 22:00 panel discussion Thriller 1 20:00 - 22:00 21:00 - 22:00 Comedy 4 drinks and music 21:30 - 22:30 22:00 - 23:00
17 FIlm Schedule: Sunday 11th November
City Screen Bar Lane Bar Lane York Explore 1331 Barley Hall Micklegate (Basement) (Gallery) (Basement) Library Bar Museum 10:00 Art 1 (on Loop All Day) Documentary 1 Documentary 3 10:00 - 17:00 Music Video 10:15 - 11:15 10:15 - 11:15 11:00 10:30 - 11:45 Drama 9 Comedy 1 Thriller 1 11:00 - 12:30 11:00 - 12:00 11:15 - 12:15 Art 2 (c15) Documentary 2 Documentary 2 12:00 (On Loop All Day) 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 10:00 - 17:00 Animation 1 12:00 - 13:00 Thriller 2 Comedy 2 13:00 12:30 - 13:30 12:30 - 13:30 Art 3 Drama 5 Documentary 4 Documentary 1 (On Loop All Day) Animation 2 13:00 - 14:30 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 10:00 - 17:00 13:15 -14:15 14:00 Thriller 3 Comedy 3 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 -15:00 Art 4 Animation 3 (c15) Documentary 5 Documentary 6 15:00 (ON Loop All Day) 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 10:00 - 17:00 Yorkshire Thriller 4 Film Archive 15:15 - 16:15 15:00 - 15:30 COMEDY 4 16:00 Music Video 15:30 - 16:30 Experimental 5 15:45 - 17:00 Drama 14 (On Loop All Day) 16:00 - 17:30 Thriller 5 10:00 - 17:00 17:00 16:30 - 17:30 Drama 11 17:00 - 18:30 (c15) 18:00
19:00 Drama 12 19:00 - 20:30 (c15) 20:00
21:00 Drama 10 20:45 - 22:15
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18 City Screen Bar Lane Bar Lane York Explore 1331 Barley Hall Micklegate GuildHall St William’s St William’s White Yorkshire York (Basement) (Gallery) (Basement) Library Bar Museum College 1 College 2 stuff Museum St Mary’s Art 1 Drama 1 Experimental 4 Music Video Experimental 5 (on Loop All Day) Documentary 1 Documentary 3 10 :00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 17:00 10:00 - 11.30 10:00 - 17:00 Music Video 10:15 - 11:15 10:15 - 11:15 (On Loop all day) 10:30 - 11:45 Drama 9 Comedy 1 Drama 6 Thriller 1 11:00 - 12:30 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:30 11:15 - 12:15 Art 2 (c15) Documentary 2 Documentary 2 Experimental 3 (On Loop All Day) 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 11:30 - 12:30 10:00 - 17:00 Animation 1 Drama 2 Art 1 12:00 - 13:00 12:00 - 13:30 12:00 - 13:00 Thriller 2 Comedy 2 12:30 - 13:30 12:30 - 13:30 Art 3 Drama 5 Documentary 4 Documentary 1 Drama 7 Experimental 2 (On Loop All Day) Animation 2 13:00 - 14:30 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:30 13:00 - 14:00 10:00 - 17:00 13:15 -14:15 Art 2 13:30 - 14:30 Thriller 3 Comedy 3 Drama 3 (c15) 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 -15:00 14:00 - 15:30 Art 4 Animation 3 (c15) Documentary 5 Documentary 6 Experimental 1 (ON Loop All Day) 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:30 Art 3 10:00 - 17:00 Yorkshire Drama 8 14:45 - 15:45 Thriller 4 Film Archive 15:00 - 16.30 15:15 - 16:15 15:00 - 15:30 COMEDY 4 Music Video 15:30 - 16:30 Experimental 5 15:45 - 17:00 Drama 14 Drama 4 Art 4 (On Loop All Day) 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:30 16:00 - 17:00 Thriller 5 10:00 - 17:00 16:30 - 17:30 Drama 11 Drama 13 17:00 - 18:30 17:00 - 18:30 (c15)
Awards Ceremony 18:00 - 21:00 pm
Drama 12 19:00 - 20:30 (c15)
Drama 10 20:45 - 22:15
19 Comedy
The Future In the Bleak of Midsummer Venetia Taylor Richard Higson (Human Productions) (Curve Films) Australia, 2011, 7m 11s UK, 2012, 7m When you’re young and It’s Christmas Day for David. in love the future seems For everyone else, it’s 18 bright... but then what? August.
Pvt. Craine PHOTOSHOPPING Ben Mallaby Mark Davenport (Grey Area) (FishmongerFilm) UK, 2011, 1m 59s UK, 2011, 15m 30s Pvt. Craine finds his A darkly comic tale about sergeant’s body after a a celebrity photograph bomb blast, and events hunter, obsession, and Screening 1 take a dark turn. breaking a world record.
Cook Book Old Birds Screening 1 Andrew William Robb Maarten Kroonenburg (Distant Object Productions (One Stop Films and Slash Ltd) UK, 2012, 6m 25s Picture Factory Co Production) A hapless bachelor struggles Canada, 2011, 7m 18s to cook a romantic dinner and It’s not going to be a typical gets some unexpected help day of selling consolidation from his kitchen appliances. scams for Larry Wilcox.
Rescue Yourself Beep Beep (Bip Bip) Daniel Seideneder Philippe Grégoire (dropout-films) (Independent) Germany, 2011, 12m 16s Canada, 2010, 4m 34s Paramedic Schmidt and his Francis wants to fall asleep apprentice are in trouble. beside the woman he loves… Their next emergency call must go smoothly…
Cockatoo TUMBLEWEED! Matthew Jenkin Jared Varava (Ninja Milk) (An Illusion of Movement) Australia, 2011, 11m 12s USA, 2012, 7m Sometimes it’s best to let The true and historically sleeping birds lie.... accurate tale of one tumbleweed that did not Screening 2 tumble.
7 Miles From Bradford ZALET Screening 2 Lucy Ray Miroslav Stamatov (DFA Productions) (Pepe & Lupe Production UK, 2011, 14m 53s and Viktorija Film) Black comedy about three Serbia, 2012, 23m 45s boys from Bradford who go Two young actresses camping in pursuit of a girl. chasing a famous film director. True story.
20 Wild Dan The White Mosquito Evdoxia Kyropoulou Marco Gadge (Ela Films/Goldsmiths, (Visixgroup Leipzig) University of London) Germany, 2012, 15m 50s UK, 2011, 9m 41s In a quiet provincial town, Cowboy Dan embarks on two policemen come up with a journey leading him to a disastrous idea. become a real hero.
Where’s My Supermalt? Sushi Or No Sushi...? Daniel Onyia Jean-Claude Flaccomio (Independent) (WeGo Productions) Screening 3 UK, 2012, 2m 39s France, 2012, 8m The impatient Tobi takes In the 1980s, a woman raises
Screening 3 matters into his own her baby and her daughter hands after waiting for his alone. Her only companion favourite drink. is a goldfish...
Male Receptionist Wurst Case Scenario Richard Kaponas (Wie Zijn Wij) (Independent) Thibault Bonte / Ilja Van USA, 2012, 7m 26s Autreve (Koersekwie Films) A painfully self-aware Belgium, 2012, 9m 27s man attempts to connect Born loser Matthias decides with his co-workers in an to take back his life in his endless white void. own hands.
Just Desserts Your Health Ltd James Page / Richard Higson Amanda Leissner (Curve Films) UK, 2012, 3m (Everyone We Know) It’s another uneventful, Sweden, 2011, 7m miserable meal for married Sweden 2011. Schools, couple Roger and Carol, nursing homes and hospitals until Carol starts receiving are being auctioned off to Screening 4 suspicious text messages.... the lowest bidder.
BEAST For Elsie Christopher Granier- David Winstone Deferre (Poisson Rouge (University of Westminster) Pictures) UK, 2011, 16m 13s UK, 2012, 23m A deliciously dark black Glenn is about to experience
Screening 4 comedy about a child the hardest piano lesson: killer, his flatmate and their teach a gangster’s daughter favourite cheese. or have his hands broken.
Happy Birthday Jim Giles Ripley Pretzel Films UK, 2011, 5m 22s A surprise birthday party goes horribly wrong.
21 Music video
Blaudzun: Elephants Little Dragon: Crystal film Yaniv Wolf (Submarine) Daniel Wirtberg Netherlands, 2012, 3m 2s (Daemon Film) A mini movie that portrays Sweden, 2012, 4m 25s the life and times of an Tormented by nightmares of unstoppable womaniser, set walking scarecrows, a girl finds against the backdrop of the herself all alone in the world, city of love, Paris. with no one to help her.
We Could Have It All Staygold: Backseat David Greenman Daniel Wirtberg / Jonas (Independent) Rudström (Daemon Film) UK, 2012, 3m 28s Sweden, 2012, 4m 8s A video illustrating A group of friends head seasonal change through a out in their brand new car, combination of animation but the party really starts and real footage. in the backseat...
Class Clown Miracles Club: Roman Przylipiak Church Song (Independent) Judah Switzer Poland, 2012, 5m 16s (Judesays / Team Video) Nobody knows what the real USA, 2010, 4m 40s life of class clown looks like. Honey Owens and Rafael Fauria keep the party movin’ with their hit Church Song.
Bull: King Volt Nicolai Aass Paul Mumford (Encore Film) (Labmeta) Norway, 2012, 2m 49s UK, 2012, 3m 17s Hunger for power. A polygon reactor fuelled Fuelled by rage. by geometry mutates like All hail the Bull-King. “a chance for redesign…”
Lost reels: Blacksmif: Bad Waters, Jenny Wilson And The Sun Rose Out Sophie Winqvist Robert Hackett (Shouting Cow Productions) (We Free The Box) Denmark, 2012, 4m 47s UK, 2012, 3m 41s A woman confined in her safe A series of abstract and place leaves on a crusade to detailed close-ups reveals confront her past. the reincarnation of flowers.
Come On Road to Recovery Vittoria Colonna Jim Hope (Independent) (Independent) Ireland, 2012, 3m 10s UK, 2011, 3m 10s A renegade bride wreaks An eclectic visual collage havoc in a typical Dublin celebrating nature, surfing pub, and all hell breaks and unique lifestyle in the loose…. far north.
22 Paul Weller: Dragon Fly Let It Go Franck Trebillac Ashley Dean (Soup Factory) (Broken Pixel) UK, 2012, 3m 42s UK, 2012, 5m 9s A whimsical representation A tale of tragedy, heartbreak, of dreams the character is hope and determination, having, using her body as inspired by Minecraft and a canvas. Desert Island Discs.
DU - SO HOT Backfacing Normals: Karl Erik Brøndbo Cage (The Norwegian Jos Meijers Film School) (Independent) Norway, 2010, 3m Netherlands, 2012, 3m 30s A boy, an old man and an It will not mean the same eagle in a post-apocalypic to everyone, but it will mean universe. something...
Jamal Defto ¡OYE!: Krzysztof Skonieczny When I’m Small (remix) (głebokiOFF) Alex Browning Poland, 2012, 4m 39s (University of Manchester) Contemporary Bonnie & UK, 2011, 3m 29s Clyde. Suitcase with dollars. A tragic chase between Destination unknown. Love fantasy and reality. A dance of breaking down the borders. the protagonist’s nightmares.
Robin Foster: Forgiveness Black Black Hills: Peter King & David Procter The Celebration (Agenda Collective) Christopher Strong UK/France, 2011, 4m 32s (Blac Ionica) UK, 2011, 4m Amidst a graveyard of The Celebration depicts the forgotten industry, a exploits of an illegal metal weathered man begins a detectorist (a ‘Nighthawk’) in dark task... rural England.
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23 Animation
Flat Frog Botanical Nightmare Margherita Premuroso Tom Lucas (Inky Mind) (University of Glamorgan) Italy, 2012, 5m 30s UK, 2011, 3m 5s Flat Frog tells the story of Two scientists investigate the misadventures of two a strange creature on an frogs anxious to cross a uncharted planet. busy road.
From Dad To Son The Cartographer Nils Knoblich (School of Jane Shadbolt (Jane Arts & Design, Kassel) Shadbolt and Karinn Germany, 2012, 5m 16s Cheung Productions) A prisoner receives the Australia, 2011, 11m 30s message that his old father A girl finds herself in a world needs help with ploughing of mysterious motives and Screening 1 the field. uncertain geography.
Slow Derek Worlds Apart Screening 1 Dan Ojari Bonnie Phelps (Royal College of Art) (Cogswell College) UK, 2011, 8m 12s USA, 2011, 9m 6s The tale of Derek, an Worlds Apart explores office worker, as he the universal themes of struggles with the true stewardship of nature and speed of planet Earth. the fate of humanity.
Gus Hinterland Andrew Martin Linda McCarthy (Honeydew Studios) (Tiny Elephants Ltd) Australia, 2010, 7m 58s UK, 2010, 2m An animated film about Hinterland is a very short not giving up on people, stop-motion animated film especially those you care with a big environmental about most. message about recycling.
The Golden Bird The Weightless Traveller Catriona Bruce Eva Colmers (Edinburgh College of Art) (No Problem Productions) UK, 2011, 11m 37s Canada, 2011, 15m 50s A Brothers Grimm With no possessions to tie adaptation of the fairytale her down, an ingenious vaga- The Golden Bird. bond takes off to the big city, Screening 2 the desert and the jungle.
The Man With The Stolen Heart Common Ground Screening 2 Charlotte Boulay-Goldsmith Mike Ackerman & (Humpty Dumpty Films Ltd) Cara Bolley (Huntingdon UK, 2011, 7m 30s University DMA Production) A surreal animated tale USA, 2012. 3m 33s narrated by Bill Nighy The story of two men from about a man looking for his different social levels brought runaway heart. to the same plane.
24 The Reality Clock The Jockstrap Raiders Amanda Tasse (Independent) Mark Nelson USA, 2011, 7m 11s (University of California, An elderly watchmaker’s Los Angeles) struggle to accept the USA, 2011, 18m 53s influence of early stage A group of underdog misfits dementia on his identity are all excluded from the war Screening 2 and sense of time. due to various abnormalities.
THE GOODS Butcher’d Meats Screening 2 Lars Jandel Brandon Pedersen (Lars Jandel Films) (Brigham Young University) Germany, 2012, 3m USA, 2012, 5m As a child gets into danger, Clarence, down on his luck, a man sacrifices his world hungry, fights for the hope and unveils another truth. of a better life.
Thora 999.999.999 Seamus Spilsbury Gerald Grunow (Oh Yeah Wow) (IFOG Akademie) Australia, 2011, 3m 12s Germany, 2011, 10m Thora rests on a vast Adrien tries to find a way mountain top. Her only out of the daily grind in a protection is a lonely beast, futuristic, depressing Munich. Solomon.
Life and Stuff Shattered Past Kumar Satkunarasa Boris Sverlow (Bournemouth University (KASK Hogeschool Gent) NCCA) UK, 2011, 4m 29s Belgium, 2011, 8m 12s One life in under A man relives his childhood five minutes. memories when he suffers a stroke at his writing desk. Screening 3
Bertie Crisp Brave New Old Screening 3 Francesca Adams Adam Wells (The National Film and (Independent) Television School) UK, 2012, 9m 30s UK, 2011, 8m 5s Brave New Old is about Bertie’s wife demands a baby, a man who tries to make but the “traditional method” something honest. isn’t working! Time for plan B.
Above as Below The Guest Michelle Arbon Henrik Malmgren (Independent) (The Animation Workshop) UK, 2011, 1m 43s Denmark, 2010, 7m 16s Above as Below follows a After having her lonely young soldier during his dinner brutally interrupted, first experience of war. Elsa realises that “Paradise is lost without others.”
25 Documentary
Heilig Architecture Alive Steven Hatton Ole Stenum (Electric Egg) (FILMBUREAUET) UK, 2011, 17m 4s Denmark, 2012, 15m An intimate portrait of Architectural works Jewish Kindertransport are perceived through refugee Gerhard Heilig. the people that make Screening 1 architecture alive.
Return of the Sun A Delicate Canvas Screening 1 Glen Milner & Ben Hilton Joey Bania (Independent) (University of Otago) Greenland, 2012, 4m New Zealand, 2011, 25m A fisherman and his son are Environmental artist Martin forced to adapt to the Arctic Hill ventures into the wilds environment. of New Zealand.
Crossing Over: On Another Note The Art of Jeremy Down Emma Dove Mike Bernard (University of Stirling) (Independent) UK, 2012, 11m 21s Canada, 2011, 12m 6s Sarah Kenchington has An artist nearly drowns and always been musical, but is saved by two eagles. could never access music Screening 2 in a conventional way...
Dekay’s Guide to Estates Eyes In The Forest: The Screening 2 Anna Edwards Portraiture Of Jim Lawrence (Mosaic Films) Miriam Needoba UK, 2011, 20m (Small Town Films Inc) Rapper Dekay explores life Canada, 2012, 10m 38s on Maiden Lane Estate in this A study of landscape and musical doc about finding wildlife, and a conversation community in urban decay. between two artists.
Gone Curling Sassie’s Gran Roland Kahurangi Derville Quigley & Rachael Patching (Double Band Films) (University) UK, 2011, 6m New Zealand, 2011, 25m Belfast beauty queen Jean Deep in Central Otago is looks on as her grandson the last place on earth still takes to the stage in drag. Screening 3 curling on natural ice.
The Long Journey Home Three Blind Mice Screening 3 David Fairhead Chris Whitehead (Independent) (Film Infinity) UK, 2012, 22m 50s UK, 2012, 3m 23s 1938: an English woman The story of Geoff Souster, marries her sweetheart and bespoke tailor, and how he moves to Germany against became involved in his trade. her father’s wishes.
26 MACHINE MAN Blind Encounter (Hombre máquina) Kevin Andrews Roser Corella / Alfonso (Type2 Films) Moral (Independent) UK, 2011, 10m 2s Spain, 2011, 15m A blind Greek busker A reflection on modernity has some inspiring views and global development. on the world. Men as machines.
Come in and see the bed Rose In London Simon Aeppli Saskia Reis UK, 2011, 8m (The Lovestreet) Screening 4 A strange story about the UK, 2011, 4m 30s filmmaker’s mother and her A transgender performance
Screening 4 elderly neighbour. artist who travels nightclub and cabaret stages between New York and London.
Home Moeder Thomas Gleeson Roma D’Arrietta (Independent) (University of New Zealand, 2011, 11m Technology Sydney) What is it that makes a Australia, 2011, 13m 9s house a home? A daughter’s attempt to make sense of the tragedies that live inside her mother.
The Sugar Bowl Notes From The Underground Shasha Nakhai / Richard Lukas Demgenski Williamson (Squire (Independent) Entertainment) Canada / UK, 2012, 9m 29s Philippines, 2012, 20m Punctuality and speed The rise and fall of are everything. There are a Philippine island’s machines, noise and artificial Screening 5 sugarcane industry. light, but also the human.
The Fisherman Back On Road Tom Burke Fliss Buckles (Areaman Productions) (Second Shot Productions Ireland, 2011, 12m and University of Exeter) Pat climbs the hill of Bull na UK, 2011, 9m 24s
Screening 5 Mór to honour his father’s The story of three prisoners memory and to contemplate as they prepare for release a life spent at sea. from HMP & YOI Doncaster.
Oil And Water Adam Docker (Red Earth Studio) UK, 2011/2012, 11m Bob is a truck driver hauling water in the forgotten prairies of North Dakota.
27 Documentary
My Neighbourhood Lasting Rights Julia Bacha / Jon Gordon & Niko Alajoki Rebekah Wingert-Jabi (Independent) (Just Vision), USA, Israel, UK, 2012, 11m 49s Occupied Palestinian A short documentary about Territories, 2012, 24m 45s a tragic death and the need Mohammed is a Palestinian for further parliamentary Screening 6 teenager in East Jerusalem. debate about assisted dying.
Timed Sid Burnard “Free Spirit” Screening 6 Mike Jones Alex J. Wright (Who is Mike Jones (Goldmark) Productions) UK, 2012, 25m UK, 2011, 7m 37s Sid Burnard welcomes us An intimate, visually poetic into his weird and wonderful exploration of the mind of world of beachcombing. an aspiring Olympian.
Artists’ films
Irlam House Bequest States of Matter David Jacques Jim Nilsson (Independent) (Kingston University) UK, 2011, 24m 10s UK, 2011, 5m 34s A shape-shifting agit An enveloping experience prop collective operating with sounds you can feel out of a Bootle tower and images seductive block in the late 1980s... enough to touch.
Daddy The Unnamed Sydney Southam Ya-Li Huang (Independent) Taiwan, 2010, 10m 48s Screening 1 Canada / UK, 2011, 3m 58s This film is constructed A visceral expression of the upon visual poetry and a
Screening 1 artist’s knowledge of her sensual fluidity. father’s suicide.
Surface ii Citizens: Sam Spreckley Teasel and Scabious (Independent) Lyndsay Mann UK, 2012, 2m 6s (Independent) A short work exploring UK, 2012, 19m 11s sound, image, surface A conversation: silence and and control. language, performance and rhythm, action and memory.
28 Artists’ films
The High Mountain The Siren Simon Clode Laura Jean Healey (Films / Video Feet) (Independent) UK, 2012, 6m 43s UK, 2012, 4m 30s Beauty is all around Explores the feminine us; you just need your mystique within the screen, eyes opened. revealing the enchanting nature of seduction.
Bare Breath Nocturne #2 Samuel Dowd Pieter Geenen (Indpendent) (Independent), Screening 2 UK, 2011, 19m 58s Belgium, 2012, 12m A journey into solitude, The streets of Tehran
Screening 2 Bare Breath contemplates registered with a mobile being, dwelling and the phone during spring 2011. overwhelming tide of nature.
Doran Emerald City Frances Odim-Loughlin Neon & Landa (Independent) (Independent) UK, 2012, 11m 12s NL / LV, 2012, 5m 49s A narrative is pieced A ray of light finds its way. together from fragments of Glowing points connect one man’s life, set against entangled emerald strings. streets in rural Ireland. Sounds drift.
Layerscape (peat bogs) The Centre and Laura Harrington the Circumference (Independent) Vicki Thornton UK, 2012, 15m 37s (Independent) An immersive journey UK, 2011, 6m 40s into the upland peat lands A dream narrative, a scene of the North Pennines from a misremembered film, and Northumberland. an ellipsis...
You can do a lot of Come To Heaven Of Hearts things in the kitchen Linn Karen Foerland Ann Petersson Malmstedt (PWSFTviT, Polish National Screening 3 (Independent) Film School) Sweden, 2012, 3m 27s Poland, 2009, 4m 58s
Screening 3 A study of the human effort A surreal and poetic film to conceptualise perceptual depicting an old woman at matters in the kitchen. the end of her life.
The Art of Loneliness Becomes and the Beauty of Fear Hélène Bélanger-Martin Natasha Melbourne-Telfer (Alto Design & Galerie (Independent) ROCCIA) UK, 2012, 10m 22s Canada, 2011, 20m A woman reflecting on Devenir is a soft-paced foray marriage, a stuttered writing into the studio of sculptor career and loneliness. André Desjardins.
29 Artists’ film
Mars was a Place Reduction Study Hondartza Fraga (Ping Pong) (Independent) Joanna Tam (Independent) UK, 2011, 11m 25s USA, 2012, 7m 12s A long distance conversation The video examines foreign between two friends unfolds accent perception in relation against a sweeping remote to social identity and and anonymous landscape. cultural standardisation.
12.16pm, 24 March 2010, Resident Alien / 52°37’40” N, 1°17’35.5” E, Situation Nr1 looking North Barbara Gamper Screening 4 Chris Loukes (Independent) (Independent) Italy, 2011, 20m 20s UK, 2011, 3m 25s Short film portraying an image A metaphor for the of the neo-human in a place, unfolding of daily life. which seems beyond time.
Look Up La Signora Screening 4 Liz Banks Caroline Marceron (Independent) (Independent) UK, 2012, 4m 58s UK, 2012, 7m 30s A film about the The film follows the daily experience of grief events of La Signora; and the transformative events punctuated with power of nature. moments of suspense.
Ely Andrea Dojmi, Lorenzo Bona (Independent) Italy / USA, 2011, 15m 27s Ely has been on a space mission. The launching ramps are now in the most complete abandon.
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30 experimental
Beef The Search for Oliver Dürr Inspiration gone (Autobahn Produktionen, Ashley Michael Briggs University: Academy of (Magic Word Productions) Fine Arts-Mainz) UK, 2012, 8m 40s Germany, 2012, 19m 20s A poet searches for The film shows how to cook inspiration within a fantastic a steak in 20 minutes. 19th century landscape.
Hurdy Gurdy ABCDead Daniel Seideneder Camilla Robinson (Dropout Films) (Dapper Films) Screening 1 Germany, 2011, 3m 30s UK, 2012, 2m 4s This short film uses its A darkly wry, gothic tale of extraordinary aesthetics to sadness, woe and untimely question reality. ends.
Peeping Tom METACHAOS Screening 1 Thomas Humphreys Alessandro Bavari (Met Film School) (Independent) UK, 2011, 6m 12s Italy, 2010, 8m 27s Why focus on new When two dichotomous architecture when so and diametrically opposed many usable structures realities meet and mix, we are going to waste? enter into the Metachaos...
Les Questions Élémentales New Empire Lanka Haouche Perren Sasha Litvintseva (Funded by the Arts (Independent) Council of Ireland) UK / Russia, 2012, 24m Ireland, 2012, 8m The cyclicity of history and Rooted in the elements and the story of a civilisation that vision of Irish artist Clare rises amidst melting snow in Langan’s films. the ruins of a fallen empire.
Path/Frontyard/ From I to I Collapse/Silence Christopher Hollaran Kai Miedendorp (Gerrit Rietveld Academie Screening 2 (German Film and Television Amsterdam) Academy Berlin) UK, 2011, 7m 43s Germany, 2012, 8m Animation and film warp Illustrating the divide between the paradigms of visual nature and man. communication in cinema.
Hamlet‘s Hybris (a remix) Fleeting Lights Screening 2 Juha Hansen (Instant Kenya Brading Leffa Independent Film (MET Film School, London) Priduction) Germany / UK / UK, 2012, 5m Finland, 2012, 15m An experimental film An experimental narrative exploring the mind, body music short adapted from and soul within us. Shakespeare‘s Hamlet.
31 experimental
Khalil the Great Home Jacqueline Passmore Matthew Kennedy / (Foundation for Art & York University (Independent) Creative Technology/UK Canada, 2012, 10m 51s Film Council/Vision & A journey through the Media) UK, 2011, 11m subconscious exploring Khalil explores attitudes place and memory from the toward working class youth. perspective of an immigrant.
Spare What On Earth Jeongeun Choi Ackroyd & Harvey, Lucy (The London Film School) Cash, Curious, Robin Screening 3 South Korea, 2011, 3m Deacon, Matthew Robins A collaboration with and Graeme Miller
Screening 3 National Gallery based on (Artsadmin & Xenoki) AWheat Field with Cypresses UK, 2011, 23m 3s by Vincent van Gogh. Pressures on our planet.
L’Invitation au voyage The strategy of Madame Bretó Amélie Raoul Zoraida Roselló Espuny / (Sydney Film School) aZora films (Independent) Australia, 2011, 3m 43s Spain, 2012, 9m 14s A man discovers how A woman living in a farmhouse related outer and inner follows virtual lessons on the travels are. theory of strategy.
To The Sea Stop: Go Anna Valdez Hanks / Lucy Kendra Anna Blanford (Independent) (Beyond Films) UK, 2011, 2m 50s UK, 2011, 14m 59s Night traffic: A celebration A man’s guilty of rhythm and occurrence conscience separates in everyday life. him from his family.
JP Auclair Street The Line - Four Projections Segment from All.I.Can Minna LŒngstršm Dave Mossop / Eric (Independent) Screening 4 Crosland (Sherpas Cinema) Finland, 2012, 15m Canada, 2011, 4m 46s A woman dreams about
Screening 4 The JP Auclair Street Segment the complexity of projections from the movie All.I.Can by and their origins. Sherpas Cinema.
Superliminal BAD LUCK CITY Sebastion Melo Aaike Stuart (Independent) (Authentic Boys) Chile/UK, 2011, 10m Netherlands/Germany An underground journey 2012, 11m 30s into a fragmented time Bad Luck City follows a landscape built upon long man on a solitary and exposure photography. superstitious journey.
32 experimental: dance/movement/sound
Conditions I met Heine on Kyle Wilson the Rue Fürstenberg (Little Earth Productions) Andreas Rochholl UK, 2011, 10m 4s (KADMOS) Conditions is a man’s internal Germany, 2011, 13m 8s revisit to a past environment Morton Feldman’s chamber he once experienced. music juxtaposed with seemingly random scenes.
Trace Knead Chris Adamescu, Disa Krosness Adam Tanguay and (Independent) Monica Thomas (Montom Denmark/Sweden, 2012, 9m Arts) USA, 2011, 5m 46s Knead is derived from Trace is a trio between a intuition with a wish to dancer, a videographer, and convey bodily experience. found footage.
Barely MASINA Natalie Metzger Krzysztof Stasiak (Independent) (BMC Film) Screening 5 USA, 2012, 3m 36s Poland, 2012, 23m 48s A motion poem of memory Referring to the characters and isolation. played by Giulietta Masina, poetic meditation on femininity told by body language.
Pohyb Plan Of The City Screening 5 (Movement) Joshua Frankel Katarina Complova (Earthworm) (University College USA, 2011, 13m Falmouth) UK, 2011, 5m 8s The skyscrapers, water Exploring the movement, towers and subway trains rhythm and possibilities of of New York City blast off capturing dance on camera. into outer space.
VMB 2011 MASS Consulado Henning M. Lederer, Brazil, 2011, 2m 10s Charlotte J. Vogel, Vaetxh, The VMBs are MTV Brazil’s King Deluxe (Independent) video music awards, and the Germany / UK / Canada, theme in 2011 was “music 2011 , 5m 58s never stops.” A body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape.
Vanish Daniel Schwarz / Davide Cairo (Fabrica Spa, Benetton Group’s Media and Communication Research Center), Italy, 2012, 4m A mesmerising journey through surreal landscapes.
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Sunny Boy Every Good Boy Does Fine Jane Gull Dan Smyth (Em Media) (Factory Gate Productions) UK, 2011, 11m 14s UK, 2011, 14m 14s Danny lives in a world A reclusive youth of darkness due to his secretly studies the art rare skin condition. of violin making.
Hush The Roar of the Sea Georgia Oakley Ana Rocha Fernandes / (Shire Productions) Torsten Truscheit (Niama Screening 1 UK, 2012, 12m Film GmbH, Stuttgart) Two young strangers find Germany, 2010, 26m
Screening 1 solace in the silence of each A story about an unusual other’s company. friendship between an African refugee and his prison guard.
La hegira York 800 Liteo Deliro (Liteo Deliro These films explore universal P.C., Kiko Medina P.C) themes of the changing face Spain, 2011, 19m of society, and its impact Mohammed’s struggle to upon individuals in today’s decide between what his diverse communities. They mind and his heart tell him. explore the meaning of belonging in the 21st century.
The Assassination Line 102 of Chicago’s Mayor Damian Schipporeit D. Schmüdde / (FILMBLICK Hannover) Kathryn Henderson Germany, 2012, 22m (EARTHCIRCL.ES) A bus driver shows the USA, 2012, 12m door to a girl. Immediate The righteous are never on consequence: The girl trial in the eyes of God. becomes a victim of crime.
Somebody’s Daughter The Fir Tree Gareth Peevers Lars Ostenfeld (Independent) (Plus Pictures) Screening 2 UK, 2011, 9m 53s Denmark, 2011, 26m 30s A young hitchhiker To travel is to live.
Screening 2 gets a lift with a But what if you’re a tree? troubled older man.
Our Ordered Lives Thrown Christine Entwisle Ryd Cook (UK Film Council & (Project Trident) North West Vision) UK, 2011, 13m 25s UK, 2011, 10m A family bereavement leads A young woman to a favourite chair being escapes from horror into assigned to the scrap heap. Cumbrian fell tops.
34 Dylan’s Room Candid Layke Anderson Nicholas Paton (Independent) (Independent) UK, 2012, 20m UK, 2011, 10m 12s A mother finds solace in her A supernatural mystery son’s deserted bedroom, emerges from the images making discoveries and snapped by a photographer confronting the past. in this hypnotic film.
No More Shall We Part The Runner Shaun Hughes (Factotum Parker Ellerman Films / Edinburgh College (COMRAD) Screening 3 of Art / Screen Academy Germany / South Africa, Scotland) UK, 2011, 25m 2012, 9m 10s
Screening 3 A brooding tale of one man’s A boy from Cape Town struggle against the wilderness needs money for his and his own psyche. mother’s vital surgery.
Rhinos No Ball Games Shimmy Marcus (Let’s Not Richard Pengelley Lose It Productions) (Irresistible Films) Ireland, 2011, 17m UK, 2012, 6m 47s Despite a language This wall won’t play ball. barrier, a couple learn more about each other than they thought possible.
1937 Ruby Svetozar Golovlev (Post- Iain Mitchell graduate School of Script- (Achiltibuie Films) writers and Film Directors) UK, 2011, 10m 26s Russia, 2011, 18m As John’s behaviour A young couple secretly becomes increasingly baptize their child, hidden disturbed, Doreen from the government. struggles to care for him.
Hinterland The Ties That Remain Boris Kuijpers Isabelle Swiderski (Independent) (Seven25) Screening 4 Belgium, 2011, 12m 11s Canada, 2012, 11m 40s Astrid (nine) slowly realises A pharmaceutical rep and
Screening 4 she has to let go of her an ailing elderly lady both father, who just passed discover life’s gifts can come away. at any time.
Grey Matter Uncle Fran Ben Dixon (Musser Mike Forshaw Leghorn Productions) (Vision+Media) UK, 2012, 25m 37s UK, 2011, 12m An urban comedy about Fran drank because the misplaced love, badly world was beyond him. kept secrets and an The world is beyond Fran African Grey Parrot. because he drinks…
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Kingsland #1: The Dreamer The Night Before Tony Grisoni (Kvelden For) (The Bureau) Marius Myrmel UK, 2008, 21m (Danvik Folkehøgskole) A young Kurdish man, Norway, 2012, 14m unable to speak English, The night before Christmas, arrives in Kingsland, everyone is cheerful. North London. Everyone except Julie.
Dusk Life is Beautiful - Stephen Hanks The child is father to the man (Tantrwm Productions) Mark de Cloe Screening 5 UK, 2012, 9m (Submarine in co-production A father takes his daughter with HUMAN)
Screening 5 to the beach, perhaps for the Netherlands, 2011, 3m 56s last time. The similarities and differences between father and son.
Skin Deep The Pizza Miracle Troels B. Larsen Tony Grisoni (Film Värk) (EMU Films) Denmark, 2011, 18m 30s UK, 2010, 23m A young woman finally How not to make a pizza. breaks a wall of silence that And lose God. has existed between her and her chronically sick mother.
A Short Film About Fifty Pence Love and Affection Eric Kolelas Simon James (Independent) (Shatterproof Productions) UK / France, 2011, 12m 47s UK, 2012, 20m 40s No matter how much you A repressed teen learns the win or lose, always leave with darker side to life on one something you came with. fateful journey to school.
Let Me Go Onni Kirstie Bennett Lauri Anssi Moilanen (Northern Film School) (Lahti University of Screening 6 UK, 2012, 14m 20s Applied Sciences) A film that explores the Finland, 2010, 13m 17s
Screening 6 lengths a loving daughter Eero has lost his son. will go for her terminally Who is to blame? ill mother.
82 Ready to Talk Calum Macdiarmid / Alexei Angeles Reine Slater / Jessica Turner (Turn (ARA Productions) The Slate Productions) USA / Spain, 2011, 22m UK, 2012, 6m 10s A school massacre plunges A postman, played by Nick a community into mourning, Moran, lets us into a dark Michael has to overcome the world in a quiet suburbia. tragedy and look ahead.
36 Magwitch ACT OF MEMORY Samuel Supple Jack Ryder (David Pugh (Violafilms) & Dafydd Rogers, Laura UK, 2011, 17m 40s Crampsie), UK, 2011, 12m 17s Mad? Bad? Misunderstood? Based on the award winning The untold story of one of short story by Mary Grace Dickens’ most colourful and Dembeck. Set in England enduring villains. at Christmas in 1948.
The Shed Loved One David Tallon & Jon Moy Geraldine Spicer (University College at (GNT Productions) Screening 7 Bournemouth) UK, 2011, 21m UK, 2011, 15m A teenage London boy
Screening 7 Young Neil visualises a becomes victim of a local futuristic spaceship in his gang after the death of very own garden shed. his best friend.
Heaven’s Secret Squared Ed Wiles Radislav Jovanov Gonzo (Wily Films) (Propeler Film) UK, 2011 , 6m 45s Croatia, 2012, 18m 55s An inhabitant of Heaven Sara wishes Mia could say relates his jungle murder something nice out loud for as well as the secret to a change, instead of only ascendance. writing in on post-it notes.
Animal Day Long Distance Information (Djurens dag) Douglas Hart Tommi Seitajoki (HSI London) (Kinoproduction Oy) UK, 2011, 7m 40s Finland, 2011, 22m 30s Father always told us Two shy lovebirds at a “never talk to strangers” … masquerade festival. But surely we have to phone home sometimes?
R Hourglass Doyle Hooper Pedro Collantes (Hooper Field / (News On Request) Screening 8 Film London) Norway, 2012, 16m UK, 2011, 17m 46s As we grow up, friendships
Screening 8 A young family are stretched often fade away. Or do they? to the limit during Rick’s day release from prison.
Nocturn Settling Leanne Welham (UK Film Shariff Nasr / Bouke van Council / Screen South / der Veer & Shariff Nasr Proud Mary Productions) (Edge Creative Media UK, 16m Netherlands) Netherlands, Jody has insomnia. She walks 2010-2012, 10m the empty streets of suburbia. A romantic parable of human But tonight will be different. beings’ desire for territory.
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Low Doremi Michelle Fox Rafael Medina Adalfio, (Shudder Films) Alvaro Gago, Luca Emma, UK, 2009, 7m Pilar Seijo (The Other Self) A contemporary silent film UK, 2011, 20m 20s about a brief connection In a psychiatric hospital, a between two cancer patients. man awakens in a catatonic state within his subconscious.
Still Early Butler Gerard Leonard William Powers (London (1000CUTS Films & College of Communication) Screening 9 El Zorrero Films) UK, 2012, 13m Ireland, 2011, 18m 22s An old master tries to make
Screening 9 The end of a relationship, amends with the ghosts of a man and a woman, lovers his past but has no one to who cannot leave. talk to except for the butler.
Mensch Suddenly, Zinat Joachim Nielsen Navid Nikkhah Azad (Idefilm & Toolbox Film) (Shamid Navid Denmark, 2011-2012, 9m Nikkhah Azad) During a hunt a wealthy Iran, 2012, 20m 38s businessman presents a A decisive choice will change decadent way of finding the the lives of three people. meaning of life.
Split Birdland Charlotte Wolf Cole Webley (Independent) (Über Content) UK / Canada, 2011, 11m 28s USA, 2011, 14m 9s Claire is having a A teenage boy reveals a very unusual affair. side of himself that no one could have seen coming.
Supermarket Girl Playing Nurse Matt Greenhalgh Miranda Howard-Williams (Creative Force Films Ltd) (Fourth Culture Films / Screening 10 UK, 2011, 9m 07s University of Westminster) A film about the blossoming UK, 2011, 9m 12s friendship between Lucy wants to help her Screening 10 Michelle and Andy over the father, but this nurse gives a supermarket checkouts. different kind of medicine.
Into The Silent Land The Dead Are Silent Jean Hogg Nikolaj Hans Belzer (Campbell Cloud Films) (Everything is Okay / UK, 2011, 14m 42s London Film School) Into the Silent Land is UK, 2011, 8m 20s a hypnotic tale that An accident befalls Emma’s explores the world of lover. Should she risk identical twin sisters. exposing her double life?
38 Atados (Bound) Episode Ian Thomson, Ollie Verschoyle Susan Barenberg (Independent) (Hafengold Film GmbH) UK, 2012, 5m 44s Germany, 2011, 4m 35s A woman forgets herself A birthday. A cycle of for a moment and then abuse. But who is exactly comes to her senses, bound to whom? slightly embarrassed.
Elegy For a Revolutionary Marichen Paul Van Zyl Katja Sambeth (Market Street Productions) (Katharina Ingwersen) Screening 11 South Africa / USA Germany, 2010, 8m 2012, 24m 7s A young woman and a Two friends who turn to little girl together on the violence to oppose apartheid Berlin train. Suddenly destroy their friendship. things change.
Hollow Tiziana Screening11 Rob Sorrenti Fernando Talló (Future Time Pictures) (Tacap films) UK, 2011, 20m Spain, 2011, 16m Hollow is a sensitive On her last working day observation of the nature at Joaquin’s, domestic of addiction. assistant Tiziana discovers a couple of things.
1000 Grams Electric Sheep (1000 Gramm) Daniel Gomes Tom Bewilogua (ONE25 PICTURES) (HfbK) USA, 2012, 10m 54s Germany, 2011, 15m An android must deliver a A film about flesh. Flesh in father’s dying message to his all of its meanings. daughter.
MAELSTRØM Peekaboo Tom Geraedts (MIE) Debbie Howard UK/Netherlands, (Big Buddha Films) Screening 12 2011/2012, 7m 44s UK, 2012, 14m 50s Psychedelic, deep and visual After losing three babies, a film that shows the inner couple’s world is torn apart. state of a young woman. Will their relationship be strong enough to survive?
One Year On Escape Screening 12 Ben Hecking / Rosa Hannah Ziegler Bryony Chaplin (Wendländische (Edgewax Films) Filmkooperative) UK, 2012, 19m 48s Germany, 2011, 21m Two former lovers meet to Two homeleess teenagers clear the air. She wants to on the run, fleeing from the move on. He wants... police and their difficult past.
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Storm House Savage Rose Glass Lisa Jackson (Independent) (Violator Film Inc / UK, 2011, 13m 50s Clique Pictures Inc) In wordless isolation, Canada, 2009, 6m something is changing... A residential school musical.
The Collector You & Me (Tu & Eu) Andrew John Rainnie Edward Shieh (Independent) (Red Rope Productions UK, 2012, 18m 22s LLC) USA / Portugal A film about an 2011, 14m 15s obsessive-compulsive A phone conversation
hoarder, struggling with pushes the limits between Screening 13 his addiction. lovers around the world.
The Visitor (Vieras) Paper Mountains Screening 13 Lauri Anssi Moilanen & Lynsey Miller Italo Moncada (Spray Films) (Independent) UK, 2012, 12m 22s Finland, 2012, 14m 14s An exploration of childhood A young woman notices food innocence in a tough urban mysteriously disappearing environment. from her kitchen.
2A CPR Alfonso Díaz Kimberly Warner (Alfonso Díaz PC) (Grieveyard Productions) Spain, 2012, 3m 51s USA, 2011, 6m 35s Olga is just the woman Jon While watching lifeguards needs for his movie… perform drills at a local pool, a woman faces her own need to be saved.
Thriller
The Dark Night - DISILLUSIONED DREAMS A Black Hearted Love Natasha Cosila Luchmun Daniel Marini (Independent) (Spikefilm) UK, 2012, 3m Italy, 2012, 21m 15s Exploring the last few
Screening 1 The Dark Night is a moments of a young man’s journey to the dark side life before his eventual of the Möbius strip. death.
40 Blue Monday Umbral Charles Chintzer Lai Guillermo Gómez Puentes (Independent) (Independent and Grymo UK, 2012, 23m 26s Studios) Claire is trying not to Chile, 2012, 5m 30s celebrate her birthday A suicidal man is interviewed this year. while blissfully rowing a small boat across the river.
Ta Ta Then Closure Simon Roser & Ben Sharrock Mick Lucas (Screen Academy Screening 14 (BoogieDown Movies) Scotland) UK, 2011, 5m UK, 2011, 3m 8s Ta Ta Then is a moving A young man seeks story of sacrifice, closure from a traumatic friendship and love. childhood event.
GLICK’S LAST TOUR Dublin Screening 14 John Henry Owen David Aronowitsch (Slate 7 Films) (Independent) UK, 2012, 15m 41s Sweden, 2012, 29m Fortunes and misfortunes Daoud has no influence over of a veteran entertainer his future. He is in the hands and his ventriloquist of a quiet and suppressive dummy, Mr Glick. system controlling his life.
Mum’s not in Claire Fowler (Columbia University) UK, 2011, 6m 45s When a stranger comes knocking it’s up to six-year- old Mali to keep him out.
He Moved Through The Fair The Stain Jack Kavanagh Alex Little (Trench Entertainment Ltd) (Independant) Screening 1 Ireland, 2011, 14m UK, 2012, 19m 1s A supernatural chiller that Simon is under pressure tells the story of a disbeliever to deliver. And his job is as and his encounter with the ominous as his employers... Faerie folk.
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AUGENBLICKE Dystopia St. Martin Bargiel David Cave (into focus & University of (Kirkwood Media) Applied Sciences and Arts) UK, 2011, 10m 40s Germany, 2011, 19m Lost in a nightmare world, If you can’t sleep but dreams a man must find the key to still haunt you, then how do his escape. Screening 2 you know what’s real?
Hostage Welcome to Leathermill Joanna Jang (OVERIDE) Russell England Canada, 2011, 5m 58s (Four-Legged Films) A woman is taken hostage UK, 2011, 10m 44s by a man who doesn’t speak Please drive carefully
Screening 2 English. The film explores through our village... how they connect beyond The neighbourhood is language. watching.
La reverberación New with Tags Fernando Usón-Forniés Matthew Nesbeth Spain , 2012, 19m 40s (University of the A photographer obsessed West of England) by the ruins of a Spanish UK, 2012, 5m 48s village meets a mysterious Lose yourself. woman there.
SEA MEADOW 108.1 FM Radio Lily Baldwin Angelo & Giuseppe Capasso (Eams Productions/Curbside (Independent) Italy, 2011, 15m Films/Topiary Productions) A driver, a hitch-hiker and a USA, 2011, 12m 17s radio programme. A night A woman stumbles upon an trip between suspicion and estate that haunts her with a paranoia. A brief metaphor Screening 3 stylised dance tableau. about mass media.
American Gun Fear View Jonathon Crewe Keith Eyles (Three Brain Cells) (Snakegully Productions / UK, 2011, 11m 23s Jemsea Films) A bullied teenage loner is UK, 2009, 5m 34s
Screening 3 pushed over the edge with Driving home in the dark will devastating consequences. never be the same again: don’t look behind you!
The Ambulance Bon Giacomo Sardelli Nils Ljunggren / Max (Independent) Vitali (Callboy) Italy, 2012, 7m 35s Sweden, 2011, 1m 52s An anonymous Actress Noomi Rapace emergency call drags an dressed in Thomas ambulance crew into the Tait at Orionteatern, matrix of Good and Evil. Stockholm, Sweden.
42 Perfect Sinkhole Anya Camilleri Adam Brown (Pandemonium Films Ltd (Yellow Line Pictures) in association with USA, 2012, 4m 30s The Comedy Unit) A young man has a surreal UK, 2005, 14m experience during a A redundant estate agent mundane job interview. takes revenge on the world.
Tell My Story Revealing Diary Rajesh Shinde Guerrier Brothers (Northern Film School) (Independent) Screening 4 UK, 2012, 13m 34s UK, 2012, 5m 7s A journalist finds himself A self help book that’s drawn deeper into his more than it seems. murder story than he ever imagined…
THE SHOT Hold Out Screening 4 David Schofield Sam Wilkins (Ironbeard Films & (Hold Out Productions / Blue Robot Films) Bournemouth University) UK, 2012, 8m 35s UK, 2011, 15m 30s Graham meets Chelsea. She Two feuding men hold out shows him the best places after a crime. One dies. Then for photos and more. the real fight begins.
The Caretaker Scarecrow (Vaktmästaren) James Arden Martin Åhlin (Blåfilm) (Independent) Sweden, 2012, 13m UK, 2012, 12m 4s A caretaker cares for an A lonely farmer is old, abandoned school and haunted by a scarecrow during a routine check he on his barren land. realises something isn’t right.
Red Letter First Date Tom Marshall Andreas Beltzer (University of Westminster) (AB Create Productions) Screening 5 UK, 2012, 22m UK, 2011, 15m Charlie is alone in this A human story set within desolate place, with no one the confines of a tense for company except the old action sequence – a heist lady who lives next door. that has gone wrong.
Red The Secret Number Screening 5 Simone Louise Smith Colin Levy (Lightning (Independent) Hill Pictures / Savannah UK, 2012, 5m College of Art and Design) A disturbed photo USA, 2011, 15m 30s journalist is haunted by What would it mean if there visions of war... was a secret integer between three and four?
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