FRIDAY OCT 4 -
SUN OCT 15
Saturday Oct 5th
11:00 - 12:40
From the Soundwaves
1h 19m plus Director Q&A
International short films
In this selection of films, the auditory element is just as powerful as the visual. Ranging from powerful poetry and spoken word to mechanical droning, the sound cascades out from the screen, drawing the audience in.
Determination by Tony x Matilda Butler
Matilda Butler / 5m / UK
Music Video for the Penzance based band Tony, shot at Geevor Tin Mine on 16mm. Butler is a Cornish artist based in Cornwall and London.
All Beloved
Laurie Huggett / 4m / UK
“A short Poetry Film capturing an imagined memory; sprung from my childhood wanderings through churchyards in West Cornwall looking for connections with a past that wasn't mine.”
Huggett is a poet and musician based in West Cornwall who has recently begun to bring film into their creative practice.
Fuck It... Pass The Salt, Please
Ceri Baker / 4m / UK
A spoken word poetry film set on Slapton Sands, written and performed by Ceri Baker, exploring the lived experience of medical negligence. Themes of vaginal mesh injury, medical gaslighting, the power of the creative process (and nature) to recover and regain autonomy, as well as self actualisation.
[Please note: this film includes strong language and discussions of injury]
Eternal Depth
Onyou Oh / 8m / Korea
“The camera captures the texture of the water, documenting the fluidity it unravels, and the poem in the film delves into the process of finding perpetuity in vulnerable moments, eventually becoming combined with the series of oceanic images. It is an experiential and sensorial dream intertwined with the ever-pulsating nature of the waves, a letter to all the forgotten times breathing underwater.”
Born in South Korea and raised in the Philippines, Onyou Oh is a filmmaker whose works vary from abstract, experimental pieces to poetic, narrative films.
Latitude Mesh
Agnés Hayden / 8m / Spain
“Latitude Mesh is a 16mm film that puts different photosensitive emulsions into dialogue. The film is structured by three concepts: the descent in photographic latitude from the most light-sensitive emulsion to the least, the descent in geographical latitude, filming from north to south, and a physical camera descent.”
Agnès Hayden (Madrid, 2000) multidisciplinary artist: filmmaker, music producer, DJ and programmer. She has a background in Cinematography Direction and is specialised in filming and processing 16mm and Super 8mm film.
The Hours of our Lady
Cathy Rogers / 9m / UK
‘The Hours of Our Lady’ is an experimental film exploring the interaction between words, image and sound. It is a collaboration between artist/filmmaker, Cathy Rogers, and sound designers, Adam Collins and Sean Price. The film is a response to ‘The Hours of Our Lady’, an extended prose-poem by David Frankel. It represents the idea of film as a ‘trick of the light’, which is where the ghost-like titular character of ‘The Hours of Our Lady’ resides.
Ompuromo
Irina Chernikova / 3m / USA
“Ompuromo is a short experimental animation film, which takes inspiration from parts of the Ohlone creation story. The Ohlone creation story tells of a coyote who escaped to the top of a hill, while most of the world was destroyed by flooding.”
Irina is a self-taught photographer, filmmaker, animator, 3d and video artist. In her work, she likes to explore the boundary between calculation and randomness.
Moth Print
Sarah Bliss / 4m / USA
Moth Print traces lines of loss and confronts failure of memory. A cameraless handmade film, it employs a laser printer to image directly onto a clear film leader, creating both (optical) sound and image. Each printed sheet contains 231 frames patiently composed and assembled one by one: 9.6 seconds of projected film. It utilises two texts: a digital video shot of a Galium Sphinx moth compulsively dive bombing a light that could destroy it, and a manuscript page from Bliss’s father’s unpublished memoir in which he describes visiting his own father who was dying of Alzheimer’s.
A Ghost Subject
William Luz / 12m / UK
Through the film, Luz explores whether the acts of playing with materials, touching, looking, feeling, moving, or simply being can be considered drawing.
Confident
Karen Akerman, Miguel Seabra Lopes / 12m / Brazil
Confident is a 2016 Portuguese language documentary starring André Dahmer, shot on 35/16mm. Karen Akerman is a partner of the independent production company Pela Madrugada. She worked as editor in over forty films and has made five short films with international screenings.Miguel Seabra Lopes is a member of the production company AS-Produções. He has worked in film as an assistant director, producer, screenwriter, editor, director, also in television and advertising.
