The films and filmmakers that featured in January's screening
PHOEBE HALSTEAD Derek and his Shells 3:00mins
In the
backwaters of Norfolk there is a broad, and by that broad there is a house.
And
at the back of that house there is a caravan.
And in that
caravan is Derek and his shells.
Short film made for Channel 4's Random Acts 2013
JACK WORMELL A
Roost for Every Bird 5:42mins
A
friend of mine likes to make sweeping statements about London. He sometimes
says things like: “In South London you can’t get a good kebab”; implying that
you can only get a decent kebab in North or East London because of the large
Turkish and Greek communities in the area. Then he had a really good kebab in
Camberwell. Features sheep and skyscrapers.
EMMA CHARLES After the Bell 3:48mins
After The
Bell is a financial term for activity by traders occurring after the close of
the stock market. Used here to refer to the night workers that enter these
spaces after trading has stopped.
Based in the
financial district of London, this video is an investigation of the unseen and
the marginal. Concentrating on the maintenance staff working within a
stockbroker company, it explores the relationship between two types of
‘invisibility’ – that of the night workers and the environment in which they
work, which functions on the basis of abstract monetary exchange which has
itself, no physical entity. Hundreds of workers enter these spaces at night,
momentarily crossing paths with a trader working late. They are fundamental to
the everyday functioning of a global economy yet their presence is only
recognised under the cover of darkness.
RHODRI WILLIAMS Art of
Motion 4:09mins
'Art of Motion' is a short documentary exploring 'Parkour'. It looks at the deeper philosophical meaning behind the activity and its sense of community'
MELANIE MENAUD Disciplinary Institutions 7:00mins
'Disciplinary
Institutions' explores places used to make undesirable/helpless people
disappear discretely (Magdalene convents, mental asylums, workhouses). Rather
than purely documenting the buildings, it shows how the long gone inmates keep
imprinting these places long after they are dead, and the malevolent aura still
cast by those buildings in collective memory.
KATIE GOODWIN Tuprutus
5:00mins
Animation
with the voice of Timo Halonen
WILLIE ROBB Take 7 5:48mins
Take 7 is a short
film that follows the energy stories of seven families over four seasons and
the influence that solar power has had on their lives. All the families, who
relied on pre-payment meters for paying their electricity bills, were given
solar panels by their social landlord in the summer of 2014.
MANDY
WILLIAMS Riverbed Stories 5:00mins
'Riverbed Stories is a short video that documents an area of London along two riverbeds- a place of natural beauty polluted by fly tipping. The video, which uses colour, black and white and toned footage, is a personal response to this landscape with its underlying narrative about presence and loss.
SELLOTAPE CINEMA Journey
Reimagined 3:38mins
Sellotape Cinema creates film worked directly onto sticky tape and played through a specially adapted projector. This medium lends itself to processes usually associated with experimental film, montage, direct to film techniques, as well as media specific techniques, notably 'flayed paper'
ESTHER
JOHNSON Chalk Trace
2:36mins
As a child
in the 1950s, Ron Cockroft drew a chalk line from his school in Oldham to his
home in Chadderton. Chalk Trace commemorates and reanimates his graffiti
journey through a now much changed network of streets. The film was
photographed in the original streets of Oldham as they stand today – over 60
years after Ron’s original graffiti.
Commissioned by Film London for the Channel Four television strand Random
Acts
in association with Arts Council England
HETTIE GRIFFITHS 
EMILY HOWELLS
& ANNE WILKINS. PRODUCED BY ROB
SPERANZA 
JAYNE WILSON 
CHRIS OAKLEY 
CHRIS OAKLEY 
