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New Shorts #16 Music & Video

18:30 Thu 12 Jan 2012

Roxy Bar & Screen

We consider the marriage of sound and image in this selection of creative music videos and short films with a dominant musical soundtrack accompanying the images on show.  Listen out for music by Esben & the Witch, The Oscillation, and Daedelus, as well as short documentaries on the South-By-South-West Festival in Austin Texas, and Paul McCartney’s debut 1970 solo album.

This programme includes the Kirin ‘First Press’ short film winner The Dreamers by Matt Maude.

This screening includes the Dirty Looks Award for Best Music Short, which will be presented at the end of the screening. The winning film will receive a full package picture grade and mastering for a short film. Including 1 day Baselight grade, DigiBeta and DCP (Digital Cinema) version and data files.

Tickets for this event cost £6 and are available online at the Roxy Bar & Screen website, or on the door on the night.

Films listed below are in alphabetical order.

Includes the Dirty Looks award for BEST MUSIC SHORT****

  • ALL PINATAS GO TO HEAVEN

    Paul McGhie 4 mins (UK, 2011)

    Two pinata dolls meet at a Mexican themed party. Will love blossom between them? Or does fate have a more tragic end in store?

  • BABY I’M YOURS

    Irina Dakeva 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    Run-of-the-mill roto is elevated to something post-worthy through beautiful colors and creative scene transitions.

  • CECELIA AND HER SELFHOOD

    Adrien Merigeau 6 mins (UK, 2011)

    A development of a young man as he navigates his way through an impressionistic landscape in search of an elusive monster which is intent on destroying his childhood home.

  • CONSEQUENCES OF THE KILL

    Oliver Goodrum 6 mins (UK, 2011)

    Consequences of the Kill is a tale of a suburban community battling for survival on a daily basis, as we witness isolation, infidelity and hostility from the neighborhood’s young and old.

  • DISAPPOINT YOU

    Ian Pons Jewell 7 mins (UK, 2011)

    A rather nasty policeman shows a rookie how things are done. After an argument with some youths and a packet of Dab Dab, the severe cop opens up to the eccentric world around him.

  • ELEANOR

    Jim Martin / Oliver Rothwell 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    An imaginative colourful love story between a mermaid and fisherman set in a world of cardboard.

  • ENTER THE CIRCUS

    Izabela Barszacz 2 mins (UK, 2011)

    On the way through the forest one can discover a magical circus...

  • GENTLEMEN IN SQUALOR

    Alex Sufit 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    Set in the prohibition era, the video stars Dexter Fletcher and pays homage to Bugsy Malone.

  • GHOSTLY TOUCH

    Paul Cheshire 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    At 13 o'clock the ghosts conduct an eerie but swingin' party.

  • GIRLS AND BOYS

    Clive Shaw 2 mins (UK, 2011)

    A boy and girl appear to elope in the middle of the night. When they are joined by dozens of others, massed together in woods outside a major city, a darker plot is revealed.

  • GOLDEN TREE

    Ninian Doff 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    A professional display of no-handed bike moves, featuring advanced moves like 'The Royal Wave', 'The Graceful Swan' and 'The Tony Blair Giving A Speech'.

  • GROUND CONTROL

    Michael Collins 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    A dancer arrives to a rehearsal - his face beaten and bruised. His partner waits anxiously - a tension lingers in the summer air. But can the rhythm of dance help salvage a troubled relationship?

  • HOUSE

    Prano Bailey-Bond 4 mins (UK, 2011)

    From the crevices of a decrepit house, the disjointed bodies of elegant dolls come to life, watched over by a strange and sinister little girl.

  • I DON'T HAVE A LOT TO SAY

    Tony Johnson 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    All manner of forest creatures and wild beasts are drawn to Benbo's campfire sing-song. Tragically some are less forgiving than others.

  • INSIDE / OUT

    Maia Lloyd 5 mins (UK, 2011)

    Why do we apply rules and limits which prevent us from achieving our full potential? Don’t let anything stop you.

  • LAMENT

    Julian Hand 8 mins (UK, 2011)

    Amidst undulating waves of liquified celluloid, heavens electrified and sea of grain, lies a forgotten Oceanic shrine. Here endless serpentine corridors entwine a subterranean, paranormal plain, where reality shifts and time is displaced. Locked within this vestigial undersea temple lies buried an isolate existential lament.

  • LIGHTS

    Tom Chimiak 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    The beauty of internal electronic lights from an autistic point of view.

  • MARCHING SONG

    David Procter / Peter King 4 mins (UK, 2011)

    A hypnotic, visual exploration of physical degradation.

  • MCCARTNEY THE ALBUM STORY

    Ali Assaf/Rob Tovey 10 mins (UK, 2011)

    An innovative mix of archive photography, home movie footage and animation, Paul narrates the story surrounding the break up of The Beatles and the conception of his solo album..

  • NOT JANE

    Helena Astbury 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    A female figure tells us the possible journeys of figures in this Gothic space, playing all the parts of girl, bride, woman. A dress is stolen, returned, rebuffed. A dialogue of rising and falling, returning and escape.

  • SALOON

    Tom Pietrasik 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    For many Indian men, a visit to the barber shop involves more than just a haircut...

  • SEVERED DREAMS

    Ian Bucknole 5 mins (UK, 2011)

    A lonely child builds a best friend in a scrapyard. The Boy grows to adulthood and the magical friend becomes an obstacle to his everyday life.

  • STAMPEDE ME

    Chris Shen 5 mins (UK, 2011)

    An uprising against foreign influence, fought in vain using magic beliefs.

  • STARING OUT OF THE WINDOW

    Ninian Doff 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    A 1960s singer’s rise to fame from complete unknown to megastar... entirely performed by wild crows… with human arms.

  • SUPERCOMPUTED

    Justin Rhodes 4 mins (UK, 2011)

    In 'Ali's Barbers' in Bethnal Green young Asian men can be seen getting preened and pampered and getting the sharpest cuts in the East End.

  • SXSW

    Poppie Skold 10 mins (UK, 2011)

    Follow ‘The Invisible’ performing at SXSW , a music festival in Austin, Texas, to get a deeper sense of the festival and what they are like behind the scenes.

  • SZOFITA LAND

    Szofita 6 mins (UK, 2011)

    How does a ring comes into existence? Welcome to Szofita Land’s fantasy world and musical imaginary factory.

  • THE DREAMERS

    Matt Maude 4 mins (UK, 2011)

    What if that single memory was so powerful it brought us from our sleeping beds to our sleep-walking feet...

  • THE WORLD KEEPS TURNING

    Kate Jessop 1 mins (UK, 2011)

    Natural found objects from the Icelandic shoreline can tell us about death and nature cycles...

  • TO ARDENT

    Ben Soper 4 mins (UK, 2011)

    A young woman awakes to find herself trapped in a nightclub. Will she escape?

  • WARDANCE

    Ed Edwards 3 mins (UK, 2011)

    The music starts and the soldiers dance to the death...

  • YOU LEFT YOUR HEART IN THE CITY

    Mark Duggan 9 mins (UK, 2011)

    We follow Mike through love, marriage and parenthood in a film designed to bend expectations of genre, as short film and music become entwined.

  • YOUNG SOULS

    Dean Chalkley 10 mins (UK, 2011)

    It is morning and a vintage car blasts down motorways, charges across rural landscapes and snakes through British suburban streets. Scully drops his friends home after a night of profound meaning. And we trace his 'night before'.