• SMALL WONDER – SUPER 8

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      Director(s)
      • Various
      Cast
      Running time (mins): tbc
      Released: Various
      Countries:
      • Various

      Screening
      Date Nov 19 - 04:00PM
      Venue Nightingale
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      Despite the myriad technologies available today, Super 8mm film is still going strong and continues to attract both professional and amateur film-makers. Following a call for submissions, Ian Helliwell has put together this international programme for Cinecity featuring some of the most interesting recent experiments with the perennial small gauge film.

      The Naked Animator
      Charlie Blackfield / 2010 / UK 2.25mins

      Sea Front
      Stuart Moore / 2009/ UK / 6mins

      Die Essenz
      David Pfluger / 2011 / Switzerland / 3mins

      Unfamiliar Environment
      John Hiom / 2010 / UK / 4mins

      La Posture du Cadavre
      Wim Van Gelder / Belgium / 2010 / 4mins

      The 5th Cambridge International Super 8 Festival 2011 winners:

      So Long Kodachrome;
      Collide-o-scope;
      Putain Lapin
      Enterprise.

      So Long, Kodachrome
      Jim Granato / 2010 / United States / 7 mins
      So Long, Kodachrome is an ode to super 8, and the most beloved film stock every made. While paying huge respects to the format, this original sound super 8 short also pays homage to an American 70′s landmark film.

      Putain Lapin / Bitch Rabbit
      Guérin van de Vorst / 2010 / Belgium / 10 mins
      Putain Lapin is about the meeting between a whore and a bear, that she thinks is a rabbit. It’s also about a desolate place where people get lost and leave by charters.

      Enterprisse
      Mauricio Quiroga Kiro / 2010 / Bolivia, Argentina 9 mins
      The man, the city, the machine. Once in the game, follow the instructions.

      Collide-o-scope
      Naren Wilks / 2010 / United Kingdom / 3 mins
      Using four super-8 cameras a man in a white room replicates himself. He and his clones have until the cartridges in the cameras run out before they disappear.

    • SLOW ACTION & SACK BARROW

      Slow Action

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      Director(s)
      • Ben Rivers
      Cast
      Running time (mins): 61
      Released: 2010
      Countries:
      • United Kingdom

      Screening
      Date Nov 20 - 05:00PM
      Venue Sallis Benney
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      To complement the screening of his debut feature-length work, TWO YEARS AT SEA, two recent shorter works also made by the film-maker.

      SLOW ACTION
      Dir: Ben Rivers UK 2010. 
40 mins.
      A post-apocalyptic science fiction film which exists somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction. SLOW ACTION applies the idea of island biogeography – the study of how species and eco-systems evolve differently when isolated and surrounded by unsuitable habitat – to a conception of the Earth in a few hundred years. Filmed at different sites across the globe including Lanzarote -a beautiful island full of dead volcanoes and strange architecture – a deserted city off the coast of Japan and Tuvalu, one of the smallest countries in the world, with tiny strips of land barely above sea level in the middle of the Pacific.
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      SACK BARROW
      Dir: Ben Rivers. UK 2011. 
21 mins.
      SACK BARROW explores a small family run factory in the outskirts of London. It was set up in 1931 to provide work for limbless and disabled ex-servicemen until the factory finally went into liquidation this year. The film observes the environment and daily routines of the final month of the six workers. Years of miniature chemical and mineral processes transform the space into another world. Towards the end an extract of The Green Child by Herbert Read describes the descent into a watery cave world.

      Slow Action, (2010) has been commissioned by Picture This and Animate Projects. Supported by Bristol City Council, Elephant Trust, Arts Council England, Daiwa Japan Foundation and the British Council.

    • INTER-ACTION

      Inter-action

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      Director(s)
      • Seat
      Cast
      Running time (mins): 75
      Released:
      Countries:
      • USA

      Screening
      Date Nov 23 - 07:00PM
      Venue Nightingale

      A collection of shorts by SEAT, Seattle Experimental Animation Team.

      A collection of short animations made over the last couple of years that explore inter-actions – action between each frame of motion as well as between each subject on screen. Made individually by twelve members of SEAT and featuring a range of styles and approaches, these thought-provoking films reflect on love, insanity, faith and murder.

    • SOUTH EAST DANCE FILMS

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      Director(s)
      • Various
      Cast
      Running time (mins): 100
      Released: N/A
      Countries:
      • United Kingdom

      Screening
      Date Nov 26 - 07:30PM
      Venue The Sallis Benney Theatre
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      Join South East Dance for an evening of our most recent film commissions including work by Brighton artists. The dance films featured in tonight’s screening include: BODY OF WAR by Isabel Rocamora; BEACH PARTY ANIMAL by Liz Aggiss and Joe Murray; MRS SPARKLE by Matthew Hellett and Simon Wilkinson; HANNAH by Sergio Cruz and the stereoscopic TANGO DE SOLEDAD by Billy Cowie.

      A Q&A session with the artists will follow the screening giving audience members the opportunity to find out more about the processes and the inspiration behind the films.

      The commissions were made possible with the support of Arts Council England, University of Brighton, Brighton and Hove City Council, Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

    • SQUINT

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      Director(s)
      • Various
      Cast
      Running time (mins): 70
      Released: N/A
      Countries:
      • Various

      Screening
      Date Nov 26 - 08:00PM
      Venue Nightingale
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      Music videos in focus.

      Music videos have long been test beds for new thoughts and ideas in commercial film-making, a space where pioneering artistic visions meet the demands of clients, agents, publicists and commissioners. SQUINT is a showcase of music video work from around the world that brings the art form into focus by placing these films in a cinematic environment, giving audiences the chance to see the artistry at work in the next generation of moving image makers.

      Features videos from So Me, Lucy Needs, Ben Lankester, Max Vitali and Peter j Brant with music from Slow Club, Robyn, Sissy Wish, Mark Capanni, Kindness and many more.

    • NEW ROMANIAN SHORTS

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      Director(s)
      • Various
      Cast
      Running time (mins): 70
      Released: N/A
      Countries:
      • Romania

      Screening
      Date Nov 27 - 06:00PM
      Venue The Sallis Benney Theatre

      FREE

      With numerous award-winners, Romanian cinema has been one of the strongest national cinemas in recent years; this progamme of new short films provides further proof of its continuing renaissance.

      Includes: STRUNG LOVE Dir: Victor Dragomir. 21mins; SILENT RIVER Dir: Anca Miruna Lazarescu 28mins; THE COUNTING DEVICE Dir: Daniel Sandu 20mins.

      Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London

    • THE STEREOSCOPE III

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      Director(s)
      • Brian McClave
      • Gavin Peacock
      Cast
      Running time (mins):
      Released: N/A
      Countries:
      • United Kingdom

      Screening
      Date Dec 03 - 06:00PM
      Venue Nightingale
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      Stereoscopic (3D) video screenings of works by Brian McClave and Gavin Peacock, commissioned for film festivals and exhibitions between 2006 and 2010. Includes dawn to dusk time-lapse films of Brighton with specially composed soundtracks by local musicians, slow motion wrestling, fast moving clouds and a remote control glider’s view of the South Downs.