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NEW SHORTS: Fucked Up Love

15:00 Sat 9 Jan 2016

Hackney Picturehouse, Cinema TBC

Our popular selection of fucked up shorts returns with stories of relationships gone wrong, from extra-marital affairs to role play sex games, from misread moments to prostitution. How we fuck with our minds and hearts.  

ROLE PLAY Philip James McGoldrick 20 mins

HOTEL SEX Dean Loxton 8 mins

MEN BUY SEX Alice Russel 8 mins

CRUELTY Anna Blandford 12 mins

THE VOICE OF REASON Riyadh Haque 5 mins

THE LIGHTER Amandine Kaya 4 mins

DUST Daniel Butler 6 mins

MORNING IS BROKEN Simon Anderson 11 mins

BOKS Mathias Askeland 7 mins

LOVE IS BLIND Dan Hodgson 6 mins

HEN PECKED Marcus McSweeney 13 mins

100 mins

  • BOKS

    Mathias Askeland 7 mins (UK, 2015)

    Through the lens of a photo booth, we see a couple trying to take a picture they can both agree on, but it proves to be easier said than done.

  • CRUELTY

    Anna Blandford 12 mins (UK, 2015)

    Young lovers, Alice and Jude take a romantic evening walk by the canal. As darkness begins to envelop them a difficult, mutual decision forces Jude to commit the brutal killing of a dying dog and Alice to witness it. This creates a schism that reveals they are strangers to one another after all.

  • DUST

    Daniel Butler 6 mins (UK, 2015)

    A young couple’s relationship is altered after an abortion. Returning to Belfast after an abortion, a girl attempts to reconcilewith her ex-boyfriend, who learned of her pregnancy elsewhere. We witness glimpses of the tumultuous period that follows as they battle to salvage their relationship with neither party willing to concede ground. Filmed in Belfast featuring workshopped and improvised scenes.

  • HEN PECKED

    Marcus McSweeney 13 mins (UK, 2015)

    Hen Pecked tells the story of a destructive, long term relationship and the pain that lies beneath by visually representing the psychological and emotional truth of what is happening between STAN and CYNTHIA: the madness, the claustrophobia, the fantasies and finally the rebellion.

  • HOTEL SEX

    Dean Loxton 8 mins (UK, 2015)

    Strangers meet for sex in a Manhattan Hotel with unexpected results.

  • LOVE IS BLIND

    Dan Hodgson 6 mins (UK, 2015)

    Exploring a fresh take on a traditional love triangle! Love is Blind finds Alice in the passionate embrace of her young lover as she finally succumbs to temptation. When her husband James returns home early to try and make amends for his recent infidelity and inattention for their marriage, Alice finds herself in the midst of an emotional minefield. Racked with guilt for being unfaithful just as James offers an olive branch, while simultaneously negotiating her lover's escape.

  • MEN BUY SEX

    Alice Russel 8 mins (UK, 2015)

    This is a documentary about paying for sex. Three men share three radically different experiences while three women lip sync to their words. A frank exploration of gender inequality that uses subverted perspectives to ask: What can their stories tell us about our society, others, and ourselves?

  • MORNING IS BROKEN

    Simon Anderson 11 mins (UK, 2015)

    Morning is Broken tells the story of Sam a student struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. Sam meets Nick at his brother’s wedding and, feeling an instant connection, they flee the party in the early hours. Once out in the morning light, things start to unravel as Sam struggles to make sense of his feelings. Morning is Broken is about growing up and learning who you are.

  • ROLE PLAY

    Brynach Day 15 mins (, 2014)

    In rural West Wales, Emma, 9, tends to her baby brother while her mother placates her boyfriend. When her older brother's friend takes an interest in Emma, he introduces her to a world she is too young to understand.

  • THE LIGHTER

    Amandine Kaya 4 mins (UK, 2015)

    In The Lighter, disheveled Alex knocks at the door of Sarah, his ex. It is early morning and she opens, irritated by his visit. Alex asks for a lighter- their lighter, the one they used to share when they were together. Sarah returns it. Bit by bit, Alex dismantles it, letting go of the past and finally moving on.

  • THE VOICE OF REASON

    Riyadh Haque 5 mins (UK, 2015)

    A couple attempt to reconcile their incompatibility despite a deep infatuation with each other.