RETRO Films

THANK YOU TO ALL THE FILMMAKERS ........

THOMAS BLANCHARD (France), Flowers  2:23 min

Time lapse flowers with a retro touch

 

TESSA GARLAND (UK)   Double Bill   3:10 min

Double Bill is a playful work that focusses on a remote area of the Mojave Desert, California, where age old objects and pieces of art can be found side by side.

 

 LEANDRO SANTINI & MATTR MEDIA(UK) Star Wars Changed My Life 

A film series made by Star Wars fans about Star Wars fans for Star Wars fans.

 

The Tattooist        (2:50 mins)

The Droid maker  (2:50 mins)

The Light Saber master    (2:50 mins)

 

BILLY DOSANJH  (UK) Mutha  Tung   10:14 mins

Mutha Tung (local Chaucerian dialect for ‘Mother Tongue’ takes as stimuli a dozen letters written in the 1960’s by South Asian women in Dosanjh’s hometown of Smethwick to their families in India and Pakistan.

 

SCOTT  WILLIS  (UK)   Dear Peter  25 mins

After discovering a large collection of handwritten postcards filmmaker Scott Willis begins a journey to track down their owner. The messages on the postcards create a picture of unknown man called Peter. But, with the collection spanning over seventy years, a reunion seems unlikely. Who was Peter? How did his life end?

 

 

STUART POUND(UK)   Retro Disk Chunter   1:00 min

Files are copied then deleted from one of the 3.5" floppy discs that have almost disappeared into our past. 

 

DAMON MOHL (Germany)   Nightclerk   1:35 mins

A song for a Night clerk with retro office equipment from a hellish job.

 

 

KATIE GOODWIN  (UK)   Dawn of The Rainbow   3:00 min

Dawn of the Rainbow is made from the film leader from the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz". The film starts with the drab real world in black and white and converts to colour. This film is an attempt to celebrate and look back at that moment in cinematic history.

 

 

MARC MARTI (Spain)   Facsimil   8:00 min

An experimental mix of documentary and fiction about the 'unique work' in cinema. The film has been made with the exact same techniques that you see on screen.

 

 

 

 

ANDRE PARDO (Spain)   Data   7:48 min

By combining archive, animation and philosophical and scientific essay DATA explores the spaces of collective nostalgia, trying to outline the methods of human memory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ESTHER JOHNSON (UK)   Analogue Kingdom   24:00 min

A poetic portrait of Gerald wells, founder and Curator of the British Wireless and Television museum. As the digital switchover approaches Wells analogue collection is a reminder of the magic that may soon be lost