LITTLE RED HOODIE

Loony and award-winning!

What does a manic Little Red Riding Hood have in common with a photo of Jesus and  wild teenage sex? You can find it out in the short film series Twisted!

The bizarre and disturbing Little Red Riding Hood adaptation LITTLE RED HOODIE by Joern Utkilen just strikes all of a heap: Little Red Riding Hood is represented by a precocious and grumpy girl, the wolf is a pimpled, featherbrained village prat and the basket with wine and cake is made into a wheelbarrow with TV and video tapes. Joern Utkilen, who in 2006 enthused the britspotting audience with SIZE 5, succeeds with a very modern and loony version of the fairy tale classic. LITTLE RED HOODIE was already shown at many festivals (e.g. Edinburgh, Hamburg, BFI London) and is nominated for the BAFTA Scotland.

The inquiries which are received daily by the Hulton Archive of Getty Images are also completey crazy and comical. A photo of Jesus or the Abominable Snowman? These are just two out of many examples from Laurie Hills lovingly animated documentary PHOTOGRAPH OF JESUS which deservedly cleaned up at film festivals: In Edinburgh it won the McLaren Award for New British Animation and it was awarded Best Experimental Short Film at the Chicago International. In 2007, Laurie Hill’s MY LIFE AT 40 was shown at britspotting where he animated his childhood imaginations of his life as a 40-year-old.

The song LOVE YOU MORE by the 70s punk band Buzzcocks was the inspiration for Sam Taylor-Wood’s film of the same title. The two teenagers and Buzzcocks fans Georgia (Andrea Riseborough) and Peter (Harry Treadway) can’t aquit themselves whilst hearing Love You More and are literally all over each other in the bedroom. The award-winning director could win an impressive crew for her film. Both Oscar nominated scriptwriter Patrick Marber (CLOSER, NOTES ON A SCANDAL) and Oscar winner Anthony Minghella (THE ENGLISH PATIENT) worked on LOVE YOU MORE which was highly praised at Sundance.

You can see the full list of shorts in the Twisted series here.

TWISTED (80 min):
November, 13 - 8:30 pm – Das Filmcafé
November, 14 - 10:30 pm – Das Filmcafé

britspotting rewind:
November, 17 – 8:00 pm – Das Filmcafé

Get a taste of LOVE YOU MORE here: