NEW SHORTS: Abrasions
21:00 Thu 16 Jan 2020
Unafraid to challenge audience limits, these works wantonly disregard both convention and pleasantries. Grit your teeth for the crude, confrontational and darkly comic, with fetishes, gruesome tween power play, hidden identities online and bingo callers losing their shit.
Paying their dues at the altar of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Innocence and Gaspar Noe’s transgressive aesthetics, these filmmakers brandish provocative visual styles and subversive handlings of narrative. Programmed by Philip Ilson. 86’
This programme contains sexual content and ambiguity around consent.
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Access
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SHE-PACK
Fanny Ovesen 18 mins (NO, 2018)
It´s a birthday party at a public pool disco, and underdog Ronja challenges the girls’ alpha female to battle for dominance. The game escalates quickly, and as their thirst for power grows, Ronja and the other girls lose control. -
BINGO
Colin Waddington / Justin Tagg 13 mins (UK, 2019)
In one night at the Shipley Bingorama, amateur bingo caller Johnny Balls is about to lose control of the biggest game of bingo in Shipley history. -
FLOSS
Popo Fan 15 mins (CN, 2019)
Floss is a story about love, fetish and interpersonal communication. Would you tell your partner about a fetish of yours that you feel ashamed of? -
SHED
Harvey Gardner 15 mins (UK, 2018)
After not seeing eye to eye for a long time, two brothers are forced to work together for one momentous task… to paint their Gran's shed. -
GOLEM
Etrio Fidora 25 mins (CZ, 2019)
J. hates how he looks so he spends his time on social networks, expressing his desires and sexual impulses in a world where nobody makes fun of him, until he's slowly dragged into a distorted digital reality that soon will become a nightmare.