CURZON SOHO
99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1
www.curzoncinemas.com
Box Office 020 7734 2255
Tickets £6.50 / £5.50 concessions / £4.50 Members
HALLOWEEN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 3 (15)
FRI 6 - MON 9 JAN
The edgiest film festival in the UK, punk-rock in its outlook and uncompromising in its vision, is bringing together the best in short film and music over four days of screenings and multi-media mayhem. Beware of the projector with teeth.
The Festival's third year finds itself at that tricky third-album time! Halloween has expanded to include screenings and events at both the Curzon Soho and the ICA.
Curzon Soho will play host to six themed screenings of the best in new short films on Friday and Saturday; the cornerstone of Halloween has always been the imaginative and challenging quality of its programming and the third instalment will be no exception. On Monday there is an Award Winners' screening to coincide with Artrocker's photography exhibition launch and a Resonance FM radio show live from the Mezzanine bar.
FRI 6 JAN 6.00PM
NEW SHORTS: LONDON LIVES
Our fair city, in all it's glory. Including the TIME OUT AWARD FOR BEST LONDON FILM. The programme includes a varied selection, including the powerful refugee dramas NON PEOPLE and THE PASSENGER, a wry look at Japanese tourists in 20/20, a damning comment on racism and homophobia in ATTACK! and a tender love story in GIRLFRIEND IN A KIMONO. Plus time travel shenanigans in Martin Pickles sweet film shot on 1800's cameras, and music by Gravenhurst in the moving LUNCHBREAK.
FRI 6 JAN 9.00PM
NEW SHORTS: FUNNY SHIT
Exactly what it says on the tin - new shorts with a smile. A chance to see the outstanding collaboration between illustration superstar David Shrigley and award winning animator Chris Shepherd in WHO I AM AND WHAT I WANT, based on Shrigley's best-selling 'comic', plus blow-up doll shenanigans in WRONG, and what really happen between Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe in THE MAKING OF GLADIATOR.
FRI 6 JAN 11.00PM
NEW SHORTS: LATE NIGHT FORTEAN
Are you ready for weird visions and strange shenanigans from the unexplained to the creepy? The Fortean Times, the monthly magazine of strange phenomena, curiosities, prodigies, and portents, hosts this screening with an Award for the film most fitting the Fortean ethos. A selection of new short filmsfrom stories about poltergeists, Norfolk Black Dogs (TO HIS KNEES HE FELL), witches (ROLLY DIAL'S DEFINING MOMENT), goblins (GOBLYNNE), mystical eggs (THE PET SHOP BOYS) and ice hotels (LIGHTWORK), and dog messiahs (THE CHIHUAHUA MESSIAH), plus where God lives in 21 st century Britain!.
SAT 7 JAN 4.00PM
NEW SHORTS: LEFTFIELD & LUSCIOUS
An eye opening range of experiments from the more abstract areas of filmmaking. Including the LUX AWARD FOR BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM. An epic programme of 20 short films from inventive minds working in animation, documentary and abstract drama, including a screening of last year's HSFF Best Film award winner Jes Benstock: THE HOLOCAUST TOURIST - an experimental and powerful documentary look at the tourism industry that's grown up in Poland in the wake of Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Plus EU2020? by recent depict! winner Myriam Thyes, and an abstract look at Manchester city centre by the enfant terribles of visual projection, The Light Surgeons, titled IN PASSING.
SAT 7 JAN 6.00PM
NEW SHORTS: TRICK OF THE LIGHT
Gorgeous cinematography and oh-so-luvverly images in this stunningly beautiful selection. A schoolboy staring out from his playground across a distant field in FENCE; two children exploring the lines on their sleeping grandfather's face in QUICKEN; an animator dreaming her creation is alive in SINGLE BED; an Indian festival celebrated in MELA; and sunflares create mindtricks in INITIATION and SOLAR FLARES.
SAT 7 JAN 9.00PM
NEW SHORTS: FUCKED UP LOVE
Romance is alive and unwell. There's obsession in THE FRONT ROOM, internet dating in GUY 101, and the powerful end of the affair in TOGETHER ALONE and FEATHERS. Plus more unconventional relationships involving rabbits and lettuce in STALK, two kids finding love in SNORKELBOY, and a bizarre remake of an old 1970's John Travolta movie using Barbie dolls in THE BOY IN THE PLASTIC BUBBLE.
MON 9 JAN 5.20PM
ARTROCKER LIVE RADIO SHOW
To celebrate the launch night of the Artrocker exhibition live from the Curzon Mezzanine bar comes their weekly radio show on Resonance FM.
ARTROCKER EXHIBITION
Artrocker celebrate the underground live music scene (that steadily goes overground) in an exhibition of photography, graphics, posters and videos about the increasingly vibrant underground artrock music scene. Featuring Futureheads, Maximo Park, The Cribs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Chalets, Les Georges Leningrad, Tom Vek, Clor, Interpol, Clor, Datsuns, Art Brut, Rogers Sisters and Black Keys, amongst many others.
MON 9 JAN 9.00PM
AWARD WINNER SCREENING
A chance to see the award winners from the previous four days: Time Out London, Dead By Dawn horror, Fortean, teenage jury award, Plexi music doc, and Lux experimental, plus Animus best animation, VX Vauxhall Auteur Theory award, the Daughters of the Kaos women's award and the big one - Best Film of the Festival. You lucky people!
All shorts programmes are approx 100 minutes each. Resident Halloween DJs in the bar area throughout the Festival.
The ICA venue will play host to further screenings and events as part of the 3 rd Halloween Short Film Festival.
ICA, The Mall, London SW1 www.ica.org.uk
- Retrospective that looks at the short films of music promo & TV director VITO ROCCO (best known for C4's recent "The Last Chancers"), and the Nottingham-based humour of Shane Meadows contemporary SIMON ELLIS
- Retrospective of rising Brit actor RUPERT PROCTER
- ARTROCKER www.artrocker.com will be back with us after a one year hiatus to collaborate on " short films make me want to rock out" , a multi-media event mixing the best in new live music from LADYFUZZ and COMANECHI with specially commissioned visual & film pieces.
- CLUB MOTHERF*CKER www.clubmotherfucker.com (London's premier queer girl-punk night out) collaborate with us on a live event featuring KAITO (direct from supporting Bloc Party on their UK tour) and 1234 records signings TWISTED CHARM , as well as hosting our Daughters of the Kaos women's themed screening with an Award.
- ADVENTURES IN THE BEETROOT FIELD www.adventuresinthebeetrootfield.com will be hosting screenings of lo-budget short films alongside a "strictly no dancing" bar event to celebrate new government entertainment licensing initiatives, with guests ABSENTEE fresh from their Green Man Festival success and ROBERT JESSE & SIMON LORD from the hotly tipped Trial & Error Recordings.
- ANIMUS FILMS - A focus on their work with horror filmmaker ROBERT MORGAN and culminating in a bar event with live animation plus guest performers, including ex-Million Dead frontman FRANK TURNER , and DIRT the musical side project of horror director Sam Walker. Plus the Animus Award for Best Animation of the festival.
- Edinburgh (and the UK's!) premiere horror film festival DEAD BY DAWN www.deadbydawn.co.uk will host our Late Night Horror shorts screening, and include the Dead By Dawn award for Best Horror Film.
- FILMONIK www.filmonik.com holds monthly screenings of brand new short films. In a special project for us, Filmonik writers have put pen to paper to produce some set texts and skeleton scripts to be shot and edited in the month before the festival. How will they differ? Come along and find out!
- We showcase the VX AUTEUR THEORY selection of short films from a competition organised by artist and filmmaker Lucia Helenka supported by Vauxhall Motors.
- animate! SALONS , an informal opportunity to talk with the maker of a recent commission from the Arts Council / C4 animate! project www.animateonline.org alongside a cinematic remix of previous animate! work by BUZZARD BUZZARD .
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