Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
The cinematic Trojan horse returns, smuggling short film-makers into the big league, even more so now it's a qualifying festival for the Oscars and Baftas. Admittedly, some of this year's entries hardly need a leg-up. Pitch Black Heist, for example, stars Michael Fassbender, while animation Bertie Crisp features the voices of Tamsin Greig and Kathy Burke. Notable first-timers this year include the Jesus And Mary Chain's Douglas Hart (Long Distance Information, starring Peter Mullan) and Matthew "Garth Marenghi" Holness (A Gun For George), but with 180 new live-action and animated films, there are plenty of new names to be made for sure.
Watershed & Arnolfini, Wed to 20 Nov
Soundtrack Film Festival, Cardiff
As the title suggests, music and cinema come together here, and not always in predictable ways. Ok, so Guillemots are playing an improvised score to Fw Murnau's 1926 silent classic Faust but how will Ivory Tower,...
The cinematic Trojan horse returns, smuggling short film-makers into the big league, even more so now it's a qualifying festival for the Oscars and Baftas. Admittedly, some of this year's entries hardly need a leg-up. Pitch Black Heist, for example, stars Michael Fassbender, while animation Bertie Crisp features the voices of Tamsin Greig and Kathy Burke. Notable first-timers this year include the Jesus And Mary Chain's Douglas Hart (Long Distance Information, starring Peter Mullan) and Matthew "Garth Marenghi" Holness (A Gun For George), but with 180 new live-action and animated films, there are plenty of new names to be made for sure.
Watershed & Arnolfini, Wed to 20 Nov
Soundtrack Film Festival, Cardiff
As the title suggests, music and cinema come together here, and not always in predictable ways. Ok, so Guillemots are playing an improvised score to Fw Murnau's 1926 silent classic Faust but how will Ivory Tower,...
- 11/12/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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