ANGEL Moving Image
Festival
Highlights
Simon
Green at Candid
Projection Room
Night School
15 mins
2004
Brand new film by Candid favourite Simon Green receiving it's first London screening. Do not miss.
Third Angel
With the
Light On
19 minutes
Super 16 mm
1996
A real documentary about fictional characters. Two sisters sit on the sofa of an untidy living room. They begin to speak, talking directly to camera. Gail, the eldest sister, is a nurse for the elderly. Stella, the youngest, is depressed. Gail thinks that Stella should just cheer up. Beautifully shot and brilliantly performed, With The Light On was nominated for Best Script and Best Drama at the 1966 British Short Film Festival.
Anne Cleary and
Dennis Connolly
Scenes from
the Boulevard
54 minutes
Digital video
2002
A run down and overcrowded Parisian boulevard becomes the gigantic set for a series of 24 shorts, one for every hour of the day, all shot from a single point of view. 24 hours &endash; 24 films: stories, choreographies, incidents, experiments… the day to day life of the boulevard, ordinary and extraordinary, liberally shot trough with the musical and comic performances of Cleary and Connolly. Cameras and microphones explore the limits of fiction and reality.
Barbès
Promenade Mouvement ("BPM")
17 minutes
Digital video
2003
Every winter evening, rush hour on the Boulevard Barbès is packed with rhythm - I find myself walking differently. Barbès Promenade Mouvement strikes me as a stark succession of slides in which the rhythm of the boulevard becomes overwhelming. But then the staccato of the slide show starts to take over… a clack, a beat … while the city races I wander. I gauge the rhythm of my step. It oscillates between 0.603 and 0.578 steps per second &endash; from 99 to 104 beats per minute - the tempo of dance music. Barbès Promenade Mouvement is controlled by these two scales but it's not just a metronome. By marrying the two beats: that of the slide projector and the step I can slide just outside the tempo, jazz drummer and dazed pedestrian. Based on text by Jean Philippe Renault
Tristan
Christann
The Picture
of the Shoe
52 minutes
2003
Whereas the European shoe is permanently faced with the thread of its own deterioration, the American shoe is not. An American shoe can't deteriorate, since historically, it doesn't exist. An American believes that god creates the shoe each and every second. The shoe becomes the word, the word searches for its shoe but the shoe has expired and the word stripped of its shoe withers and dies.
Ayten & Thibaud
De Souza
Koseka
48 minutes
Digital video
2003
In a small Kurish village in the east of Turkey, Zeynep has just come back from high school when her father announces his intention to marry her to a man of his choice. This film looks at the repercussions of such an arranged marriage, a custom which is still common in the middle east. The patriarch's decision provides the narrative thrust through which we discover daily Kurdish life with all its ups and downs. Far from clichés and conventions, the film captures joys, fears and disenchantment without drama or artifice.
Marianna
Ellenberg at
Candid Projection Room
Cut Snip Ooze
5 minutes
S8mm/16mm
2003
Incorporates animated sequences of slippery ephemera and a sparse soundtrack of electronic noise to create an illusive meditation on the sensuality and volatility of bodily processes.
Exercises in
Seething and Soothing, #1
10 minutes
Super 8mm transferred to video
2004
Hi frequency tones meet low tech aesthetics as Super 8mm images of a lost tooth are animated, slowed down and sped up to create a sensuous portrait of self consumption. The tooth traverses worlds of colour and deceit, only able to emerge in low frequency panic rooms and high frequency quicksand; faced with its flickering shadow and enamel remains.
Sam Huntley
Polish your
shoes
11 minutes
2003
Six London born brothers and sisters recall memories of their dead father. Polish your shoes is a very personal film for director Sam Huntley, and tells the story of the grandfather he never knew.
Jun keung
Cheung
Bus Strike
13 minutes
B/W Super8
1998
A monologue by "Selena" dealing with the impossibility of marriage in her life. Her feelings are echoed in the melancholic black and white images of Vancouver where she works as a prostitute. Bus strike deals with her life and the crippling nature of her past.
Sabrina
Doyle
Polanov
21 minutes
2002
A wintry morning deep in the Polish countryside: two newlyweds are making their way to Polanów. She was born there and now - for love's sake &endash; he must go there. They stop on the shores of a frozen lake. Polanów is on the other side, but a sudden mist prevents him from seeing it. They spend a day waiting for it to emerge. A day of rising winds and falling passions. A day that just gets colder and colder. When a messenger from the other side leads her through a sea of reeds onto an abandoned jetty, one question remains: will he follow all the way to Polanów or will he be left behind?
Jeannie
Simms
Blood relations
35 mins
2003
Explores the dynamics of a psychologically entangled working class family against the backdrop of the Southern California desert, contrasting its arid vastness with the complex optimism intrinsic to the suburban developments that border it. The desert's vast expanse, loaded, as it is, with the myth of manifest destiny, emphasises the family's insularity. I used some of my own experience to construct a family whose members long to connect with one another but cannot. Never having recovered from the death of their husband and father each character finds their own way to cope and access their passions and obsessions. Mother reads murder mysteries, one after the other, sometimes deeply identifying with the stories she reads. Johnny has sex and argues with his girlfriend Kelly whilst becoming increasingly desperate to achieve financial independence by starting a towing business with his pickup. Lou turns to acting, often performing elements of her own life in a cathartic attempt to articulate her emotions.
The film's narrative is inter-cut with surreal sequences in which Lou runs anxiously trough a series of unfamiliar spaces. Lou is the film's most perceptive and outwardly curious character so it is she who embodies its emotional inner life and drives its inexplicable quest forward. The film expresses ideas with images more than with dialogue, its footage unfolding in an emotionally logical way instead of a traditional narrative one &endash; fantasies, dreams and ideas punctuate the story in short vignettes to help create the psychological atmosphere of the characters and their world.
Alicia
Duffy at Candid
Projection Room
The Most Beautiful Man in the World
5 minutes
35 mm film
2002
On a hot day a small girl searches for something to do. Aimlessly she walks into the path of a stranger.