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GET UP (RATTLE) - BINGO PLAYERS, Dir. Tim Hope
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POP-UP MUSIC VIDEO SHOWCASE

16:00 Sat 11 Jan 2014

Power Lunches

In association with Encounters Short Film Festival and Soho Shorts

Encounters 2013 has created a new international showcase and competition for music videos in partnership with Soho Shorts, which premiered in Bristol in October. Join us for a thrilling ride through one of the most innovative and ground-breaking genres in the short format – we can guarantee dazzling visual art, animated storytelling and one rather wild, off-the-wall party. Includes music by Grimes, Spiritualized, The Leisure Society, Vitalic, Passion Pit, Bloc Party, and Unknown

Mortal Orchestra.

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  • BACK TO ME - JOEL COMPASS

    Ian and Cooper 3 mins (UK, 2013)

    Back to Me is an elliptical story of a young boy, his dead father and the witchdoctor who can bring him back.

  • CRY LIKE A GHOST - PASSION PIT

    Daniel Kwan 5 mins (UK, 2013)

    Cry like a Ghost follows a girl as her life spirals out of control due to her self-destructive tendencies.

  • DON'T LET ME GO (SHE AIN'T MAD AT IT) - RUCKZOID

    Alexander Dückminor 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    A visually stunning journey into alternative graphical realities.

  • DOWN THE ROAD - C2C

    Thomas Tyman 3 mins (UK, 2013)

    In Down the Road, professional skateboarder Richie Jackson brings his psychedelic charm to a modern ghost town, hovering between two dimensions.

  • FADE AWAY - VITALIC

    Chassaing Romain 5 mins (UK, 2013)

    Fade Away follows a manhunt between professional killers, leading to an endless loop of murders. Very cinematic, the film is a tribute to classic movies such as Goodfellas, Ghost Dog or Pulp Fiction.

  • FIGHT FOR EVERYONE - THE LEISURE SOCIETY

    Garth & Ginny Jones 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    Persistent Peril were delighted to be approached by Full Time Hobby to direct a music video for The Leisure Society. A hand creates life on a little bluey-greeny planet; only things don't quite go as planned. Miniature animated destruction ensues.

  • GET UP (RATTLE) - BINGO PLAYERS

    Tim Hope 3 mins (UK, 2013)

    Tim Hope’s music video stars a group of vigilante ducks who take revenge on a group of delinquent kids. Featuring the track Get Up by the Bingo Players’ (Ft. Far East Movement) the ducks manage to get down, as well as getting justice.

  • I CAN MAKE YOU LOVE ME - BRITISH INDIA

    Darcy Prendergast 5 mins (UK, 2013)

    One Beast's drunken quest in the name of love.

  • I HAVE YOUR HEART - CRABAPPLE, BOEKBINDER & BATT

    Jim Batt 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    An intricate paper puppet stopmotion animation that tells a darkly whimsical tale of adventure, romance, and open-heart surgery.

  • KETTLING - BLOC PARTY

    James Lees 3 mins (UK, 2013)

    Filmed with a group of kids from a south-east London school James Lees captures all the excitement, aggression and fear that's associated with this downsized form of warfare - and, of course, the violence, and ensuing injuries...

  • LE MYSTÈRE - HUGO & THE PRISMATICS

    Raoul Paulet 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    Through a journey of self-discovery a woman explores the meaning of life. Choices, fears, intentions, mistakes. Her feelings are brought to life and populate her imagination.

  • LIQUID SPIRIT

    Calum Macdiarmid 5 mins (UK, 2013)

    A painter decorator is haunted by an invisible force which threatens him. Spilling paint on that force reveals a monster he was not expecting...

  • LITTLE GIRL - SPIRITUALIZED

    Vincent Haycock 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    Little Girl follows the story of a young female runaway who steals her dad's money and motorcycle to escape the god-forsaken, post-Soviet demise small town in which she lives.

  • MARZIPAN REINDEER - HOLLY AND THE WOLF

    Tony Johnson 3 mins (UK, 2013)

    A bold and resourceful Holly must journey through a perilous forest to escape the ghosts on her trail.

  • METUBE: AUGUST SINGS CARMEN 'HABANERA'

    Daniel Moshel 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    In a combination of dance club and SM dungeon the director, Daniel Moshel, stages a minutely choreographed trip into the subconscious: While “Habanera” booms in Schram’s magnificent techno remix, genders and realities collide and overlap, and suppressed emotions noisily forge ahead.

  • MY RECURRING DREAM - COLD MAILMAN

    André Chocron 5 mins (UK, 2013)

    My Recurring Dream is a seamless journey through nine different dream landscapes, accompanied by the song with the same title by Cold Mailman.

  • OBLIVION - GRIMES

    Emily Kai Bock 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    Emily Kai Bock finds beauty in contrast with Oblivion for Grimes. The effervescent singer performs her dreamy pop in a succession of male dominated scenarios of American society.

  • STARDUST

    Mischa Rozema 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    Stardust, is a story about Voyager 1 (the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system). The probe is the furthest man-made object from the sun and witnesses unimaginable beauty and destruction.

  • SWIM AND SLEEP (LIKE A SHARK) - UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA

    Bexy & Joe (Aoife McArdle) 3 mins (UK, 2013)

    Directing duo Becky & Joe's music video for Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a story of shame, redemption and voyeurism set in a colourful puppet world.

  • TIME TO GO - WAX TAILOR FEAT. ALOE BLACC

    Darcy Prendergast, Seamus Spilsbury 3 mins (UK, 2013)

    The tale of a crotchet quadropus, who journeys throughout the land turning things blue.

  • TOURNIQUET - HEM

    Jordan Bruner 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    A fox escapes to the city in hopes of pursuing his dreams. There he meets a menagerie of anthropomorphic animals going about their busy city lives. When a surprise visitor comes to him he is reminded of his primordial instincts.

  • TRUE ROMANCE - CITIZENS

    We Are From LA ... 4 mins (UK, 2013)

    We Are From L.A’s ‘True Romance’ individually approaches concepts of love by positioning passionate scenes of intimacy between couples in juxtaposing locations and situations.