Join the University of Salford for this evening showcasing the very best of this year’s moving image work. The selection of shorts from both undergraduate and postgraduate students will feature films from across the School of Arts & Media, from animation to artist film and fiction. This screening will be taking place as part of the University’s annual Create Salford celebrations and delivered in partnership with HOME.
Films screening are:
Bob the Bipolar Blob
Dir Lucie Nouraud, GB, 2017, 3 Mins
MA Media Production: Children’s Television Production
Boo narrates the rough day her dad Bob is having, explaining the different behaviours and emotions that can arise in people who have bipolar. From sadness to exhilaration, the different states Bob goes through are explained with simple words and animation to help people with bipolar disorder explain what happens to them.
Corrugated
Dir Matthew Williams, Aimee Leigh Brown, Aaron Wallace, Camden Nightingale, Georgia Pownell, Petru Sandovici, GB, 2016, 6 mins
BA (Hons) Film Production
Two separate people are isolated in a cramped storage containers, neither knowing of the other’s existence. All they have is one gun to keep them company.
Dance Again
Dir Terry Hall, GB, 2016, 8 mins
BA (Hons) TV & Radio
Cleaner Emily teaches Bernard to Dance Again after the death of his wife.
Immanent
Dir George Foy, Kathleen Karnak, Tilly Ogden & Faris Sami, GB, 2016, 2 mins
BA (Hons) Film Production
Boy wakes up in the woods with nothing but a Jack-in-the-Box, he tries to escape from it but it follows him everywhere. He later finds out it was just a dream.
It’s Not My Fault
Dir Julia Strelczuk, GB, 2016, 6 mins
BA (Hons) Film Production
A boy who is abused by his mother for being imaginative developed an imaginary friend to help his loneliness
Know Your Place
Dir Jake Lyne, GB, 2017, 3mins
BA (Hons) Visual Art
Contains strong language & physical violence.
Little Seed
Dir Holly Petrie, Scott Tate, Kieran Willoghby, Mica Henry & Chris Baker GB, 2017, 4mins
BA (Hons) Animation
Trying to survive in a winter wasteland, Little Seed travels around trying to scavenge supplies until she encounters an apple and a dying tree. She attempts to save the tree only to make matters worse. While the tree does die, there is hope in the seedlings that appear from the apples.
Space Between Us
Dir Tremaine King, GB, 2017, 3 Mins
BA (Hons) Fashion Image Making and Styling
This artistic film explores the unease behind Britain’s current political turmoil, pulling visual input from the media’s repetitive portrayal of mass immigration and the conflict between chaos and control in our freedom of speech.
The Animalympic Games
Dir Alexandra Parkinson, Dylan Jones and Al Conteh, GB, 2017, 7 Mins
BA (Hons) Animation
An all-animal Olympics with a true underdog! At the Animalympic Games, everyone has something they’re good at but someone who hasn’t found their place at the games is Water Dog. He’s just a helper at the games, who longs to take part in the races and more than anything would love to take home a shiny gold medal. Will he have what it takes to win?
The Artist
Dir Michael Carr, GB, 2017, 7 Mins
MA Media Production: Children’s Television Production
The Artist is the story of a painter with an unusual approach to his work who learns the importance of choosing your own path in life.
The Building Was Red
Dirs Ben Young, Victoria Ejgierd, Lewis Conlan & Marc Lambert , GB, 2016, 1 min
BA (Hons) Animations
A true story about a small team of voluntary firefighters that fought to protect their country during the Blitz in London (1940). The heavy air raids caught them by surprise but they fought bravely to put the fires out. A huge wall came collapsing down on them. Most of them survived and were blessed to live another day…
ReBirthday
Dir Kiel Mitchell, Faris Sami, Samuel Fitzjohn, Jonathan Dissington, GB, 2016, 6 mins
BA (Hons) TV & Radio
The Ghost Army
Dirs Sean Jones, Cheryl Parker, Dan Maden, GB 2017, 2 mins
BA (Hons) Animation
The Ghost Army was a U.S special troops unit used to deceive German troops during World War II.
The Logbook
Dirs Daniel Rickard, Maria-Larisa Covaciu, Eleanor Hamer & Megan Williams, GB, 2016, 2 mins
BA (Hons) Animation
An animation telling the story of ten year old Heather Barton who used to hide in the bathtub to escape the 1941 bombings.
Torpidity
Dir Rob Foulkes, GB, 2017, 20 mins
BA (Hons) Media & Performance
Unhappy with the way his life is playing out, Jack Trainor finds a way to see how his life could play out so much differently, but not always for the best.
Yellow Madness
Dir Holly Drabble, GB, 2016, 5 mins
BA (Hons) Film Production
A museum curator gets a mysterious box delivered to him and he begins to uncover its mysteries.
For further information on this year’s festival visit the University of Salford’s website.
Take a look at Programme 2 for documentary focused films from across the School of Arts & Media.
