Friday 6th January 2006
6pm, Curzon Soho cinema 3
London Lives new shorts + Time Out award (96 mins)
LONDON LIVES includes the TIME OUT AWARD FOR BEST LONDON FILM, featuring the powerful refugee dramas NON PEOPLE and THE PASSENGER, a wry look at Japanese tourists in 20/20, a damning comment on racism and homophobia in ATTACK! and a tender love story in GIRLFRIEND IN A KIMONO. Plus time travel shenanigans in Martin Pickles film shot on 1800’s cameras, and music by Gravenhurst in the moving LUNCHBREAK.
6.30pm, ICA cinema 1
Teenage Britain - new shorts including teenage jury award (105 mins)
TEENAGE BRITAIN includes an Award given by our Teenage Jury of 15 - 18 year olds, and includes the multi-award winning HIBERNATION about coming to terms with death, the powerful South Wales documentary LAST MEN STANDING about how young people cope with dead end life and unemployment in the valleys, and LADY MACBETH concerning a teenage temptress.
6.30pm, ICA cinema 2
Bitesize Cinema shorts selection from Leapfrog Entertainment (60 mins)
8pm, ICA cinema 2
BBC Film Network shorts (60 mins)
A selection of the best shorts - from straight drama and offbeat comedy to cutting-edge animation and music promos - submitted to the BBC’s interactive short film showcase.
8pm, ICA bar
Adventures In The Beetroot Field featuring Absentee and Trial & Error
After their successful art & music club nights at Koko, ADVENTURES IN THE BEETROOT FIELD will be hosting screenings of lo-budget short films alongside a “strictly no dancing” bar event to celebrate new government entertainment licensing initiatives, with guests ABSENTEE, and ROBERT JESSE & SIMON LORD with their beautiful Bert Jansch-inspired music from the hotly tipped Trial & Error Recordings. Visuals by Max Hattler and Visual Development Unit.
9pm, Curzon Soho cinema 3
Funny Sh*t new shorts (94 mins)
FUNNY SH*T does exactly what it says on the tin - new shorts with a smile. A chance to see the outstanding collaboration between illustration superstar David Shrigley and award winning animator Chris Shepherd in WHO I AM AND WHAT I WANT, based on Shrigley’s best-selling ‘comic’, plus blow-up doll shenanigans in WRONG, and what really happen between Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe in THE MAKING OF GLADIATOR.
9.30pm, ICA cinema 2
Vauxhall VX Auteur Theory shorts (50 mins)
The VX VAUXHALL AUTEUR THEORY showcases a selection of short films from a competition organised by artist and filmmaker Lucia Helenka, supported by Vauxhall Motors. The competition was aimed at talented filmmakers with a strong personal vision and hands on approach to filmmaking, and this programme introduces the next generation of DIY auteurs.
10.30pm, ICA cinema 1
Adventures In The Beetroot Field present Lo-Budget Mayhew (84 mins)
Lo-budget shorts are hosted by the Camden multi-media club night ADVENTUES IN THE BEETROOT FIELD, with nearly 20 gems that cost virtually zero to make - witness KILL BILL in Lego, Neanderthals in Piccadilly Circus in 2005AD, a 15 second poem by John Cooper Clark in CHRYSANTHEMUMS THE WORD, a puppet David Bowie in ROCK N ROLL SUICIDE, a Western without any horses in W.A.N.T.E.D., 3-d shenanigans in SEA DOG & ROBOT (we’ll provide the glasses!), and many many more!
11pm, Curzon Soho cinema 3
Late Night Fortean new shorts + Fortean award (106 mins)
A selection of new short films from the twilight zone - blood curdling tales of the unexplained and strange phenomena to amaze and shock, from stories about poltergeists (HOME SWEET HOME), Norfolk Black Dogs (TO HIS KNEES HE FELL), witches (ROLLY DIAL’S DEFINING MOMENT), goblins (GOBBLYNNE), mystical eggs (THE PET SHOP BOYS) and ice hotels (LIGHTWORK), and dog messiahs (THE CHIHUAHUA MESSIAH), plus where God lives in 21st century Britain!.
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