Films: Competition Screening - Screen Out Loud
Venue: Exeter Picturehouse
Date: 18th February, 6pm–7.15pm
Shortlisted films for the Independent Talent Award, open to amateur and professional animators, over the age of 18, resident in the UK. The winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony.
Sat 18 Feb, 6.00pm – 7.15pm
Exeter Picturehouse, £8/6.50/6 Family £24 15+
Screen Out Loud
Moxie
Dir: Steve Irwin, 5 mins 5 sec
A pyromaniac bear misses his mother.
All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat)
Dir: Louis Hudson, 9 mins
A tiny man living inside a cat gets himself into a sticky love-triangle.
Hinterland
Dir: Linda McCarthy
Small Birds Singing are beseiged by plastic bottles. Where have they come from? Who is to blame? As Consomme and Delphinium play croquet, Spandisman investigates…
Petrified
Dir: Nicky Whitfield, 3 mins 25 secs
You'd think life on a church roof might be pretty peaceful, but not for Fletcher, the gargoyle. When Maggie the pigeon arrives, he learns that even if the world seems beyond your control, life can still present you with unexpected opportunities to escape from your problems... in one fell swoop.
Watch Me Change
Dir: Margaret Sturton, 1 min 25 secs
This animation explores the journey of a drawn line through a series of arbitrary images. Through the line's metamorphosis, the viewer meets a series of delightful characters.
Encounter With A Crow
Dir: Katy Shepherd, 1 min 24 secs
My animation is a response to an unexpected encounter with a crow when walking down the street. I used pencil, chalk and charcoal sketches, photographs and my memory to recreate the moment when our two worlds crashed together.
Pythagasaurus
Dir: Peter Peake, 3 mins 52 secs
Bumbling cavemen awake to find a volcano on their doorstep. Could their only hope be a dinosaur who is good at maths?
Instrumental
Dir: Adam Bailey, 4 mins 5 secs
What do instant 'lemur', 'minstrel tuna', 'lunar mittens' and 'internal smut' all have in common? Instrumental is the story of a short blue man's love for music and his struggle with a clogged woodwind instrument.
White + Black = Red
Dir: Simone Giampaolo, 2 mins 11 secs
White + Black = RED is a socially positive animated short with a strong anti-racist message. The story is about an argument between two opposite characters: one whiite and one black, who by the end of the film, learn how to respect and love each other.
The Voice of the Shed
Dir: Fin McMorran, 4 mins 34 secs
After a long time watching the seasons and reflecting, a shed becomes philosophical, offering his views on trees (possible ancestors) and humans. He shares important truths about the nature of shed-time and shed-space and it's effects on human creativity. Entering a garden shed takes you to another world, literally.
Painting
Dir: Fin McMorran, 3 mins 22 secs
The trials of the creative process, as seen from both sides of the paintbrush.
Spin Spun Span
Dir: Emily Howells, Anne Wilkins, 4 mins 31 secs
A surreal journey through the cotton factories of the North West of England, led by a choir of singing spindles and a spinning mule.
The Science Museum: Head Room
Dir: Leo Bridle, 2 mins
A compelling viral for a new exhibition at the Science Museum - James Watts workshop. Featuring stop motion of 18th Century artefacts and computer animation, 2d and 3d.
The History of Denim
Dir: Drew Roper, 4 mins 29 secs
Johnny, a foundry worker, tells us how he's the creator of denim & explains the epic tale behind it all.
The Existenatial Pleading of the Inner Heart: Fear of Flying
Dirs: The Brothers McLeod, 1 min 37 secs
Colin T Heart examines his fear of flying in the latest installment of The Existential Pleading of the Inner Heart.
Hinterland dir. Linda McCarthy
