Saturday 7th January 2006
1pm, ICA cinema 1
Simon Ellis and Rupert Procter retrospective + Q&A (146 mins)
And after 2004’s focus on Brit actress SIENNA GUILLORY’s impressive short film output before she hit Hollywood, this time around we feature the drama & comedy of rising Brit actor RUPERT PROCTER with a look at his varied short film career from his comic turns in Little Clumps of Hair and Short to his darker roles in Strange Little Girls and A Changed Man which are exercises in uncomfortable but essential viewing, showing him to be one of our most talented character actors.
2.30pm, 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 D.I.Y auteurs.
4pm, Curzon Soho cinema 3
Leftfield & Luscious new shorts + award (109 mins)
An epic programme of 20 short films from inventive minds working in animation, documentary and abstract drama, including a screening of last year’s HSFF Best Film award winner Jes Benstock new work THE HOLOCAUST TOURIST - an experimental and powerful documentary look at the tourism industry that’s grown up in Poland in the wake of Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”. Plus EU2020? by recent depict! winner Myriam Thyes, and an abstract look at Manchester city centre by the enfant terribles of visual projection, The Light Surgeons, titled IN PASSING.
4pm & 6pm, ICA cinema 2
Vito Rocco retrospective + Q&A
Rocco originally studied oceanography in Acapulco, but soon became enmeshed in the motion picture industry. Before long he found himself working for a small Mexican studio as an underwater fight choreographer. After a number of unsuccessful pictures culminating in the disastrous 1965 picture Perils of the Deep, the studio went bust and Vito Rocco found himself out the streets. We could go on, but best you come down and find out more for yourself and meet the man….
6pm, Curzon Soho cinema 3
Trick of the Light new shorts (94 mins)
Showcasing gorgeous cinematography and oh-so-luvverly images in this stunningly beautiful selection: A schoolboy staring out from his playground across a distant field in FENCE; two children exploring the lines on their sleeping grandfather’s face in QUICKEN; an animator dreaming her creation is alive in SINGLE BED; an Indian festival celebrated in MELA; and sunflares creating mindtricks in INITIATION and SOLAR FLARES…
6.30pm, ICA cinema 1
Music documentaries + award (119 mins)
Includes new short films on East London’s subversive superstar SELFISH C*NT, KASABIAN in the Eastern Bloc, an in depth look at the UNKLE phenomenon, an artistic overview of radio station RESONANCE FM made by young people, and a look at modern day fans in I’M WITH THE BAND.
8pm, ICA theatre/bar
Artrocker presents Art Over Rock featuring Ladyfuzz & Comanechi
Artrocker return to the Halloween bringing the art in bucketloads, as acts perform one-off specially commissioned visual pieces exclusive to the Halloween Short Film Festival. Rising rock n rollers LADYFUZZ perform tonight’s set from the Barfly, the Astoria, and a host of other venues, as well as being live on the ICA stage, plus excusive footage and outtakes from their latest stunning animation video. Guitar and screaming duo COMANECHI (White Heat) perform a single improvised song to accompany lead singer Akiko’s own video work, which will no doubt be a noise and visual car crash of immense proportions.
9pm, Curzon cinema 3
F*cked Up Love new shorts
Where romance is alive and unwell; there’s obsession in THE FRONT ROOM, internet dating in GUY 101, and the powerful end of the affair in TOGETHER ALONE and FEATHERS. Plus more unconventional relationships involving rabbits and lettuce in STALK, two kids finding love in SNORKELBOY, and a bizarre remake of an old 1970’s John Travolta movie using Barbie dolls in THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE.
10.30pm, ICA cinema 1
Late Night Horror new shorts + award
Includes an Award by Edinburgh’s premiere horror film festival DEAD BY DAWN and features a horrific mix of zombies (IN CASE OF ZOMBIES), haunted hotels (LITTLE BLACK), cockroaches (INFEST), monsters (THE EEL), and general scariness and atmospheric terror in CCTV drama SWEET SALLY and evil-in-the-home in SHAME.
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