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New Shorts #8: SURREAL WORLDS
12:30 Sun 6 Jan 2013
A powerful selection of short films that will bend the mind and amaze and astound with stunning imagery and twisted stories. Watch out for the warped Will Self adaptation FLYTOPIA and the Christina Rossetti poem made life in GOBLIN MARKET. Aiden Gillan features in the stunning EKKI MUKK with music by Sigur Ros, and blind Maxine Peake believes she’s living with Jesus in DEAFBLIND
Total: 115 min
Curzon Soho
W1D 5DY
Access
Please find all access information here, or drop a line to Helen MacKenzie at access@shortfilms.org.uk for more information or special requests.
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DEAFBLIND
Ewan Bailey 15 mins (UK, 2012)
A deaf and blind woman and a young man share a spiritual and disturbing connection. -
EKKI MUKK
Nicholas Abrahams 11 mins (UK, 2012)
Featuring music by Icelandic rockers Sigur Ros, acting by Aidan Gillen (the Wire/Game of Thrones) and the voice of folk legend Shirley Collins, the film is a magical odyssey through the British countryside, following a man's search for his way home. -
FLYTOPIA
Saul Freed, Karni Arieli 20 mins (UK, 2012)
A dark fantastical tale in which a man enters into a pact with all the insect inhabitants of his rural cottage.dripping with honey,sex,flies,meat... and a very sticky end. -
GOBLIN MARKET
Anna Blandford 18 mins (UK, 2012)
Goblin Market: innocence lost forever. -
GRAND FESTIN, LE
Dan Childs 3 mins (UK, 2012)
The film revolves around four colourful characters that come together around a designer table to enjoy a bizarre and whimsical dinner party. -
MAN CUTS DOWN A TREE AND IT HAS CONSEQUENCES, A
John Panton 8 mins (UK, 2012)
The title says it all: A Man Cuts Down a Tree and It Has Consequences -
SEARCH FOR INSPIRATION GONE, THE
Ashley Michael Briggs 8 mins (UK, 2012)
A poet awakens within a strange garden in need of his notebook, pencil and inspiration. A divine couple, breakfasting, observe. A debate unfolds; would inspiration arise from help, or hinder? Will the poet find his inspiration? -
SIGNALBOX #100
James Gunn 11 mins (UK, 2012)
In the middle of a thick forest, a nameless Signalman's job is to regulate a mysterious train line, until one day he receives an unexpected message from an unknown sender. -
SPACESHIP
Alex Taylor 6 mins (UK, 2012)
Chloe transforms herself into Ridley Scott’s alien, making a costume out of PVC. She meets a group of 2012 conspiracy theorists who tell her that she has connections with angels. -
TURING TEST, THE
Edwin Mingard 15 mins (UK, 2012)
Sarah needs a job, to pay back her rent arrears. Andrew builds computer programs that impersonate human beings. As the world of automated, service-sector work closes in around her, Sarah seeks a means of escape, and a way to prove she's still a human being...