TITLE:This was forever (2008)
PLAY>> Duration:
10' This was forever is about Manor Gardens
allotments in east London and the struggle of a
community to hold its own in spite of Olympic
development for the 2012 games.
FESTIVALS:
Mora Gora Festival (Serbia)
COMMENT:
This film is one of the Films
from the River Lee series - filmed over
a year until the allotments were demolished
in 2007. Funded by First Light.
TITLE:I remember walking up one day (2008)
PLAY>> Duration:
10' I remember walking up one day is a
film about the connections between the past
and the present, hammers and ships, lighthouses
and bollards, matches and strikes.
FESTIVALS:
Mora Gora Festival (Serbia)
COMMENT:
This film is one of the Films
from the River Lee series - filmed with
a group from Swanlea school in east London.
Funded by First Light and Leaside Regeneration.
TITLE:Mudlarking (2008)
PLAY>> Duration:
6'
At low tide men can often be seen scratching around the Thames shoreline. We discover just what it is theyíre up toÖ
FESTIVALS:
Mora Gora (Serbia), London Short Film Festival
COMMENT:
This film is one of the Films
from the River Lee series made with the help of the Mudlarking Society.
TITLE:Myth (2008)
PLAY>> Duration:
6'
In the beginning was creation and since then
we have continually invented myths as to how
and what created - while destroying the earth.
FESTIVALS:
Mora Gora (Serbia)
COMMENT:
This film is one of the Films
from the River Lee series made with Swanlea
School and funded by First Light and Leaside
Reneration.
TITLE:Until when you die (2006)
PLAY>> Duration:
3' TRAILER (29' FULL VERSION) Until when you die is about a woman
who left Vietnam in 1979 with her family in
a fishing boat. We travelled back to her home
and discovered that the village where she had
grown up had been told that the boat had sunk
and everyone had drowned. It was as if a ghost
had returned...
FESTIVALS:
Leipzig (GER), IDFA Silver Cub Award
nominee (HOL), True/False Festival (USA), Oxdox
(UK)
COMMENT:
This film was directed by polkadots
founder Mark Aitken in close co-operation with
the Vietnamese community of south London. Support
came from community funding and the lottery.
The clip here is a trailer - the full half hour
version can be obtained on request.
TITLE:As above, so below (2005)
PLAY>> Duration:
7' As above, so below is about the secret
spaces inbetween - underground rivers, fox holes,
killer crows and parakeets dreaming of warmer
climes.
FESTIVALS:
Showcomotion - Winner Best Experimental
Film, Winner Audience Best Film, Videotivoli, Finland, Clerkenwell Film
Festival, London
COMMENT:
We made this film over a half
term where each participant took on the role
of a park animal. Each animal then had to interact
in some way. Made with the help of the Friends
of Brockwell Park and local squirrels.
TITLE:Where is Morton Valence? (2005)
PLAY> Duration:
7'38" Where is Morton Valence? is about
a notoriously difficult-to-get-hold-of London
band. An intrepid crew take to the streets and
encounter muggers, terrorists and tourists along
the way...
FESTIVALS:
Halloween Short Film Festival
COMMENT:
When faced with the limitation
of making a film about a band who weren't available,
we invented characters and situations that made
a virtue out of the problem. The film makers
became the stars of their own film.
TITLE:Resonance FM (2005)
PLAY>> Duration:
6'42" Resonance FM is about a community arts
radio station in London. Rather than film dj's
and studios, we made an investigation into the
very nature of sound...
FESTIVALS:
Halloween Short Film Festival, Videotivoli,
Finland
COMMENT:
The film makers each took on
a role to investigate the nature of sound. An
Artist, a Philosopher and a Scientist all devise
their various points of view through experimentation.
This film was made in a half-term in north London.
TITLE:
Talking about us
(2003)
PLAY>> Duration:
11'46"
Four London youth clubs took on the idea of
citizenship and produced moving and personal
takes on what it means to be a teenager today.
FESTIVALS:
London Film Festival
COMMENT:
The London Film Festival commissioned
this film as part of it's citizen awareness
programme. We weren't exactly sure what citizenship
meant so the groups took the lead. One group
from Ealing went back to the children's home
where they'd grown up and reconstructed their
memories.
