COMPETITION: It Takes a Muscle (at Curzon Soho)
18:30 Wed 16 Jan 2019
A psychosomatic workout for all the senses mixing animation, moving image, prose and performance. 2018 Jarman Award nominee Larry Achiampong pieces through fragments of neglected colonial histories, whilst Cait Lyn Adamson’s fever dream female gaze reveals one young girl’s burgeoning sexuality. These shorts are doing something at the cusp of the cerebral and the visceral. 91’
LSFF UK Competition: It Takes a Muscle also screens at Rich Mix, 6.30pm, 14th Jan
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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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RELIC 1
Larry Achiampong 14 mins (UK, 2017)
Relic 1 forms part of Achiampong’s ongoing, multi-disciplinary, multi-site project manifesting in performance, audio, moving image and prose. -
INANIMATE
Lucia Bulgheroni 9 mins (UK, 2018)
A classic stop motion short film in which puppet Katrine makes the decision to leave the set and step into the unknown. -
IN THE FALL
Tom Gentle 16 mins (UK, 2018)
In a remote Scottish coastal area a boy watches his parents as they decide whether to send their loyal working horse to the knacker's yard. -
LANDLINE
Matt Houghton 12 mins (UK, 2017)
Landline journeys into the world of the people who called a helpline for gay farmers set up by a Cheshire chaplain in 2010. -
HELL HATH NO FURIE
Kitty Faingold 7 mins (UK, 2018)
Ancient myth meets modern angst in this short thriller about some very angry women. -
TO BE A TORERO
Inma de Reyes 14 mins (UK, 2018)
A grandfather pins his hopes for wealth in his 12-year-old grandson, dreaming that one day he will become a famous bullfighter. -
SOME GIRLS
Cait Lyn Adamson 19 mins (UK, 2017)
A shy teenage girls comes to terms with her sexuality as she recalls the beginnings of ner friendships and the desires and affections she develops for another girl from her school.