August 2005
 FUTURE SHORTS MONTHLY SCREENING
Future shorts at Rushes Soho
Take 291
YES - Q&A with Sally Potter
Frida Kahlo's Corset
AFRICA 05 - Best of Buffalo Film Festival
AFRICA 05 - Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
Collective Vision Retrospective
ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW - Special Preview + Q&A
Raindance Course
Cutting East
NOKIA 15 SECONDS FILM COMPETITION
Edinburgh Film Festival
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL (LIAF 2005)
Raindance Course: Directing Performance
London International Animation Festival
NIGHTWATCH - Special Preview
NPA Shorts Night
SUMMER STORM - Q&A with Marco Kreuzpaintner
Monday, 1 Aug
FUTURE SHORTS MONTHLY SCREENING
7.30pm £5/£4 Concessions
Ritzy Cinema - Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, SW2 1JG , London
Contact: Future Shorts, info@futureshorts.com, 08707550062, http://www.futureshorts.com
The Best of Shorts International
6-8pm, Free Vouchers on line
Vue West End Cinema - Leicester Square, West End, WC2H 7AL, London
Contact: Shorts International, simon@britshorts.com, 020 7734 2277, http://www.shortsinternational.com
Shorts International are pleased to present an evening of Britain's leading short films at Rushes Soho Shorts Festival on Tuesday, 2 August. Films shown will include the classic short, DESSERTS, starring Ewan MacGregor, hot new BAFTA-nominated KNITTING A LOVE SONG and CALL REGISTER, starring Martin Freeman.
To register for your FREE tickets, go to ww.myvue.com and click on the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival icon.
Wednesday, 3 Aug
Future shorts at Rushes Soho, 10am - 5pm, FREE
Vue Cinema, Leicester Square, WC2H 7AL, London
Contact: Future Shorts/Rushes, info@futureshorts.com , 02074393255, http://www.futureshorts.com
The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival is a cool, creative and relaxed annual event where the work of both established filmmakers and newcomers is viewed and judged on a completely level platform.
Thursday, 4 Aug
Take 291, 8.30-10.30pm, £3
291 Gallery - 291 Hackney Road, Hackney, E2 8NA, London
Contact: Charlie Phillips, projects@291gallery.com , 0207 6135676, http://www.291gallery.com
Take 291, London's weekly showcase for experimental, underground and avant-garde artists' film, continues every Thursday in August, with more amazing international work.
Thursday 4th August features:
British Premiere of ERIKA YEOMANS' stunning tribute to legendary cult artist, Bas Jan Ader, 'In Search of Bas Jan's Miraculous'
PLUS Richard Squires, Martin Hamblen, Kurt d¹Haeseleer, Gianluca Bonomo, Ruth Hinkel-Pevzner, Esther Johnson
Take 291 is an ongoing weekly event. Each week follows the format of a
showcase of a wide range of emerging and emerged film artists followed by a
screening of a 'classic' artists film. There is an opportunity for
filmmakers to present and discuss their films with the audience and each
other, during and after the film showings.
In the future, we will be continuing to have special Take 291 events in
conjunction with other film and visual art organisations, plus special
one-off events from unique curators. We hope to generate interaction and
enthusiasm between experimental filmmakers in London and beyond.
All suggestions from artists and curators for how Take 291 could evolve
along with their needs are very welcome.
Keep sending in your film and video submissions to the address above!
Friday, 5 Aug
YES - Q&A with Sally Potter , 6:30pm, £8.50
Curzon Mayfair - 38 Curzon St , London , W1J 7TY
Contact: Curzon Cinemas, shelley.mccarten@curzoncinemas.com , 020 7495 0500, http://www.curzoncinemas.com
Sunday, 7 Aug
Frida Kahlo's Corset , 3pm, free
Tate Modern - Bankside, London , BS6 7TW
Contact: Tate Modern, liz@roaring-girl.com , http://www.roaring-girl.com
Directed by Liz Crow, 'Frida Kahlo's Corset' is a short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the painter (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets because of impairment. The film draws on Kahlo's own words and characteristically bold painting style. It refutes the picture of Kahlo's life as one of tragedy and suffering.
Tuesday, 9 Aug
AFRICA 05 - Best of Buffalo Film Festival
6pm, £5 / £4 concessions
Curzon Soho - 99 Shaftesbury Ave, London, W1D 5DY
Contact: Curzon Cinemas, shelley.mccarten@curzoncinemas.com , 020 7734 2255, http://www.curzoncinemas.com
The Buffalo Black & Asian short film festival is an annual celebration of Black and Asian film that takes place annually at Battersea Arts Centre. The ethos is to promote new and thought provoking filmmakers from around the world to new audiences helping to push forward ideas that pulse with entertainment. On the eve of the third Festival, Curzon Soho and Africa 05 present a selection of the best black work from the previous years. There will be guest DJs in the Curzon Soho bar afterwards playing a mix of chilled funk and African beats.
AFRO-DEUTSCH
Director: Ayassi. Germany . 10mins.
A young black male has to escape from a group of thugs. On the run he experiences
flashes from his past.
A PROPER ONE
Director: Michael Picer. UK . 1min.
A pompous film director wants his actor to play himself.
BABY GIRL
Director: Simon Brown. UK . 6min.
Sometimes a girl has to make a choice between an insistent boyfriend and responsibilities to herself.
JOE
Director: Yann Demange. UK . 10min.
A heart-felt exploration of teenage friendship touching on issues of race and class.
DIGITALIS
Director: Beyonder. UK . 5min.
Written and performed by Beyonder, this is a poetic and pacey odyssey into the digital world. Through the vagaries of digital and analogue technology the film explores our relationship with the technological accoutrements in every day life.
BROWN LIKE ME
Director: Wade A. Jacks. UK . 8min.
Written by Sonia Rai. A tale of forbidden love, race, generational conflict, with
a light-hearted look at the dilemmas facing second generation Asians in 21st century Britain .
MAN MADE
Director: Erma Elzy-Jones. USA . 15mins.
After setting a tasty trap for her unfaithful boyfriend, a young woman takes a very enterprising approach to finding a new man. Best Short Film at Atlanta , Georgia 2004 Urban Mediamakers Film Festival.
Wednesday, 10 Aug
AFRICA 05 - Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog)
6pm, £5 / £4 concessions
Curzon Soho - 99 Shaftesbury Ave, London, W1D 5DY
Contact: Curzon Cinemas, shelley.mccarten@curzoncinemas.com , 020 7734 2255, http://www.curzoncinemas.com
Werner Herzog's 1992 documentary LESSONS OF DARKNESS is both a rumination on the horrors of war, and a commentary on cinema-verité filmmaking. Filmed in the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait , music guides the viewer through oil-coated expanses.
Roy Villevoye: Since the early-1990s, he has been making work in the Asmat region of Papua, formerly known as Irian Jaya.
"Resolutely averse to romanticising the Papuans, Villevoye's work shatters the illusion of Papua as an untainted innocent Eden . Instead he shows a global village full of rumours, myths, and misunderstandings set against the background of a seriously dysfunctional economy." Sven Lütticken (Artforum, March 2005).
The exhibition titled PROPELLER is at The Photographers' Gallery (a touring show from the Frans Hals Museum in The Netherlands) and runs from 12 August to 25 September.
Presented by the Photographer's Gallery
Thursday, 11 Aug
Collective Vision Retrospective , 6-11pm, Free
Westbourne Studios - 242 Acklam Rd, Westbourne Park / Notting Hill, W10, London
Contact: Paco Sweetman, info@collectivevision.co.uk , http://www.collectivevision.co.uk
Collective Vision has been around for over 2 years. The films on show are both old and new and cover numerous genres from short drama's to documentaries and music videos. After party goes on until 2am.
Take 291
8.30 -10.30pm, 291 Gallery, Hackney, London
Take 291, London 's trailblazing weekly experimental,avant-garde and underground artists' film night continues. Featuring MONA HATOUM's 'Measures of Distance'
Friday, 12 Aug
ME YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW - Special Preview + Q&A ,
6.40pm, £8.50
Curzon Soho - 99 Shaftesbury Ave , London , W1D 5DY
Contact: Curzon Cinemas, shelley.mccarten@curzoncinemas.com , 020 7734 2255, http://www.curzoncinemas.com
Saturday 13, Aug
Raindance Course
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT MASTERCLASS
With Carl Schoenfeld
Time tbc
Venue The Diorama Arts Centre, London
3-7 Euston Centre, Regents Place ,
London NW1 3JG . Nearest Tube Warren St.
Cost £49 + VAT (10% discount to Raindance members)
www.raindance.co.uk/courses
Sunday, 14 Aug
Cutting East , 6.30 -10pm, suggested donation £2
Spitz - 109 Commercial Street, Old Spitalfields Market, Shoreditch, E1 6BG, London
Contact: Tower Hamlets Films Office, filmsoffice@towerhamlets.gov.uk , 020 7364 7920, http://www.lbthartsandevents.net
To Submit your film for inclusion in the short film programme please send your entries by the 5th aug, on VHS or DVD to Films Office, The Brady Arts Centre, 192-196 Hanbury Street, London, E1 5HU including your contact details, a brief synopsis and the running time.
Alternatively bring your film down to the Spitz on the night for inclusion in the infamous 'Open Deck Session'
Open Deck Rules:
· You must submit your film by 6.45pm on the night
· You must be prepared to introduce your film
· Your film must be on DVD, VHS, Mini DV, DVCam or Beta SP
· Your film must be less than 10 mins in length
· Your film MUST BE CUED UP OR WE WON'T SCREEN IT!
For more details on how to submit your film for screening and info on the open deck session email filmsoffice@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Produced in association with Tower Hamlets Arts and Events, Tractor Films and Spitz
Monday, 15 Aug
NOKIA 15 SECONDS FILM COMPETITION , FREE
Raindance Film Festival, Soho, Across the UK
Contact: Raindance Film Festival, info@raindance.co.uk
This years Nokia Shorts competition features a new category for films made on a mobile telephone.
Shane Meadows has made a 15 second drama in an housing estate in teh Midlands using the new Nokia N90 telephone.
To see his film, to find tips on shooting movies on a mobile telephone and for details on how to submit to this years competition, go to http://www.raindance.co.uk
Wednesday, 17 Aug
Edinburgh Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
The London Film Group - Networking Event
8-11pm
Salisbury Pub - 1, Grand Parade, Green Lanes, Haringey , N4 1JX , London
Contact: Stefan Carter, stefan171@gmail.com , 07843011630
The club is about making connections, collaborating and sharing knowledge.
Thursday, 18 Aug
Edingburgh Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
Take 291, 8.30 - 10.30pm, 291 Gallery, Hackney, London
Take 291, London 's trailblazing weekly experimental and underground artists' film night continues with a special event.
"Straight 8 Art @Take 291" - An evening of the experimental and avant-garde side to the 'straight 8' competition.
Saturday, 20-21 Aug
Edinburgh Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
Raindance Course: Directing Performance
Directing Performance introduces directors to the acting process, and demonstrates proven techniques to enable directors to promote strong performances. By developing the inner and outer worlds of the characters, through their relationships with their environment, other characters and themselves, a great story can be given further depth and will create a greater involvement for the audience.
£195 + VAT: 10% discount to members!
From 6.30-9.30pm. Call 0207 287 3833
www.raindance.co.uk.courses
Sunday, 21 Aug
Edinburgh Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
FUTURES SHORTS MONTHLY SCREENING
9pm £5, £4/Concessions
Clapham Picture House, Clapham, London
Contact: Future Shorts, info@futureshorts.com , 08707550061, http://www.futureshorts.com
London International Animation Festival
Curzon Cinema - Shaftesbury Ave , Soho, London
Contact: Nag Vladermersky, info@liaf.org.uk , http://www.liaf.org.uk
LIAF will screen the largest and most up-to-date explosion of animation to be seen in the UK this year.
As well as the latest short films from all around the world in seven competitive screenings, LIAF will screen kids animation, the latest UK films in a special British panorama, student animation and computer animation.
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL (LIAF 2005)
The 2nd London International Animation Festival screening at:
The Curzon Cinema Soho , 99 Shaftesbury Avenue , W1.
Tuesday 23-Sunday 28 August.
Tickets: single session £8 Full / £5 Concession
Festival pass (limited amount available): £65 Full / £45 Concession
Bookings: 020 7734 2255 or www.curzoncinemas.com
More information: www.liaf.org.uk
Kids animation session screening at:
The Clapham Picturehouse, 76 Venn St , Clapham SW4.
Saturday August 27 th .
After the success of last year's inaugural London International Animation Festival, this years' festival has moved to a new venue, to the home of independent and arthouse cinema, the Curzon Soho. With several sold-out sessions last year and Time Out proclaiming in their New Years issue "At last the long awaited arrival of an annual London animation festival" we are proud to say we are back with more of the world's best and most recent animation, as well as a whole heap of specialised programmes, retrospectives and themed sessions. LIAF will showcase over 200 animated films from more than 30 countries from August 23 rd to the 28th.
Highlights of the festival include: All five 2005 Oscar nominated films including a special programme based around the winning film 'Ryan' by Chris Landreth, the UK premiere of the new animated feature film from Estonia's top animation studio - Eeestijoonisfilm - entitled 'Frank and Wendy', and a special visit to the festival from award-winning Canadian animator Jacques Drouin.
Wednesday, 24 Aug
Edinburgh Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
London International Animation Festival
www.liaf.org.uk
NIGHTWATCH - Special Preview
6.30pm, £8.50/£5.50 concession
Curzon Soho - 99 Shaftesbury Ave , London , W1D 5DY
Contact: Curzon Cinemas, shelley.mccarten@curzoncinemas.com , 020 7734 2255, http://www.curzoncinemas.com
NIGHT WATCH (Nochnoy dozor) (15)
Director: Timur Bekmambetov. Starring: Konstantin Khabensky. Vladimir Menshov. Valery Zolotukhin. Maria Poroshina. Russia 2004.
NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR) is the first installment of a trilogy based on the best-selling Russian sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko (which also includes DAY WATCH and DUSK WATCH). Set in contemporary Moscow , the film uncovers the other-world battle that upholds a 1000-year-old truce between the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness. This visionary horror fantasy film features a dazzling mix of mind-blowing effects (including animated subtitles), adrenaline-fuelled action and suspenseful terror. The look of NIGHT WATCH owes something to Terry Gilliam but there are also echoes of DELICATESSEN in the film's wide-angle hyper-realism.
For more information on the Russian Promenade visit www.ensembleproductions.co.uk
Presented by the Moscow City Committee for Tourism and Russian National Orchestra
Thursday, 25 Aug
Edinburgh Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
London International Animation Festival
www.liaf.org.uk
NPA Shorts Night
6.30 - 10pm, £2 minimum donation
NPA - 1.07 The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, Liverpool Street , E1 6JJ , London
Contact: New Producers Alliance, queries@npa.org.uk , 02076130440, http://ww w .npa.org
Arrowman Sam by Tom Rowson, 15 minutes.
A fun and fulfilling storyline, compelling to watch.
Wolf by Ben Bannister, 13.32 minutes.
Hilarious and quirky with a very clever twist.
Downfall by Will Borthwick, 14 minutes.
Intriguing and action packed, not one to miss.
Foighioinn by Simon Miller, 15 minutes.
A fable and mystical piece to watch, bracing and enjoyable.
Trophy by Simon Reed, 10 minutes.
Fast- moving but thorough, full of dimension.
Dark Green Fields by Richard Cambridge, 15 minutes.
A love triangle waiting to explode.
To book email queries2npa.org.uk quoting "Shorts Night" in the subject line.
Take 291
8.30-10.30pm, 291 Gallery, Hackney, London , £3
Take 291, London 's trailblazing weekly experimental and underground artists' film night continues. Every Thursday, only £3for loads of films challenging the norm. Special screening of HUMPHREY JENNINGS' wartime documentary 'Listen to Britain '
Friday, 26 Aug
Edinburgh Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
London International Animation Festival
www.liaf.org.uk
SUMMER STORM - Q&A with Marco Kreuzpaintner
6.40pm, £8.50
Curzon Soho - 99 Shaftesbury Ave , London , W1D 5DY
Contact: Curzon Cinemas, shelley.mccarten@curzoncinemas.com , 020 7734 2255, http://www.curzoncinemas.com
As cox and oarsman, best friends Tobi (award-winning Robert Stadlober)
and Achim (Kostja Ullmann) have helped their team win several rowing cups in the past and are now looking forward to the big regatta in the countryside. But as Achim's relationship with his girlfriend grows more serious, Tobi starts to realize that his feelings to Achim run deeper than he is willing to admit. When the much-anticipated Berlin girls' team is being replaced by a team of cliché-bursting young gay men, Tobi and his teammates are suddenly forced to grapple with their prejudices, their fears, and perhaps their hidden longings. As tension grows, Tobi, Achim and the others head towards a confrontation as fierce and as liberating as the summer storm gathering over the lake.
With thanks to Parasol Peccadillo Pictures
FUTURESHORTS MONTHLY SCREENING , 9pm, ARTS PICTURE HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE
FUTURE SHORTS MONTHLY SCREENING, 10.15pm, RIO DALSTON, DALSTON, London
FUTURE SHORTS MONTHLY SCREENING , 11.30pm, OXFORD PHOENIX , OXFORD
Sunday, 28 Aug
Edinburgh Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
London International Animation Festival
www.liaf.org.uk
FUTURE SHORTS MONTHLY SCREENINGS
7:30pm, £5/£4 concessions
RICHMOND FILMHOUSE, RICHMOND , London
Contact: FUTURESHORTS, info@futureshorts.com , 02083320030, http://www.futureshorts.com
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