POSTPONING THE INEVITABLE

Experimental • UK • 2007 • 16 min • OV

Director: Noam Toran, Onkar Kular

Producer: Noam Toran, Onkar Kular

POSTPONING THE INEVITABLE is a short film presenting alternative interpretations on the theme of near-death. Based on true stories, the film’s three chapters Falling, Faking and Freezing conceptually sit between traditional cinematic storytelling and an ambiguous space of visual representation, asking the viewer to interpret the clues provided.

MATTER IN MOTION

Experimental • UK • 2008 • 5 min • OV

Director: Semiconductor

The Universe is at once in a constant state of integration and disintegration. In searching for an understanding of the material world around us, Semiconductor have restructured the city of Milan. In each setting field recordings have been made and used to directly reconstruct the fabric of the city, introducing a temporal and spatial allusion. “Give me matter and motion and I will construct the universe” – Rene Descartes (1596-1650).

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;

Experimental • UK • 2008 • 2 min • OV

Director: Ian W. Gouldstone

The film is the result of Ian W. Gouldstone’s animation residency at Newport University. It’s a fresh experiment in collaborative filmmaking that’s bound to turn a lot of animation thinking on its head.

IVUL UNMADE

Experimental • UK • 2009 • 18 min • OV

Director: Matt Hulse

A Super 8 sniping on the set of Andrew Kotting’s third feature film, IVUL.

WITHOUT YOU

Experimental • UK • 2008 • 4 min • OV

Director: Tal Rosner

Producer: Tal Rosner

Inspired by a poem by Josef Albers, WITHOUT YOU is a visual exploration of London’s industrial suburbia. Focusing on an imaginary circle drawn at a 10 mile radius from Charing Cross, where the natural and manmade environments lie side by side in harmonic indifference, the film follows a colour-coded and surface-determined path, where identifiable or ‘simple’ forms are sculpted and submerged into one another, resolved only through the abstraction of their immense revealed complexity.

6 ESSENTIAL BOOKS

Experimental • UK • 2008 • 2 min • OV

Director: Stephen Sutcliffe

Crabby and condescending an old man spreads out six books in front of him, six books he thinks are essential for students. The sound thwarts his speech with irreverence.

COBRA MIST

Experimental • UK • 2008 • 6 min • OV

Director: Emily Richardson

COBRA MIST explores the relationship between the landscape of Orford Ness and the traces of its military history, particularly the experiments in radar and the extraordinary architecture of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. The film records the physical traces of it’s often secretive past using the photographic nature of 16mm film and time lapse to construct an impossible experience of the landscape and expose its history to the camera.
The soundtrack is composed by Benedict Drew from sound recordings taken from Orford Ness by Chris Watson.

A TIME AND A TIME

Experimental • UK • 2008 • 3 min • OV

Director: Sarah Cox

A TIME AND A TIME is a film constructed entirely from archive footage shot in Bristol over the last century. Three specific locations are chosen and filmed images from these geographical points are cut up and reassembled so that we recreate the place with people and buildings and vehicles that span time.

COPY CITY

Experimental • UK • 2008 • 4 min • OV

Director: Denise Hauser

COPY CITY is an experimental exploration into marginal worlds, having its roots in the new media development, Web 2.0 and real/virtual life.

THE ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES

Experimental • UK • 2008 • 16min • OV

Director: Ben Rivers

A film begun as a portrait of S, a 75 year old man living in a remote part of Inverness-shire. S has been obsessed with Darwin’s works for much of his life. Since a child he has wondered at life on Earth and, though he never became an academic, found in Darwin many answers to his questions.

TERMINAL COMMUNICATION

Experimental • Ireland • 2008 • 3 min • OV

Director: Michael Fortune

TERMINAL COMMUNICATION is a fixed-frame work featuring the actions of drivers as they approach a badly signed junction leading into Rosslare Harbour ferry port, in County Wexford. Filmed from a vantage point overlooking the junction, the camera captures the incidents which local’s then claimed was an everyday occurrence.