Riddles & Recitals

An eclectic mix of short films with everything from Oscar-nominated animations to locally made documentaries.

From multi-narrative inventions to playful animated skits, with just about everything in between, this smorgasbord of shorts is truly an eclectic mix of styles and genres.

Featuring a strong animation contingent, including new work by Edwin Rostron, Elizabeth Hobbs, Louis Morton, Tess Martin, and Dutch trio Job, Joris and Marieke - who are up for an Oscar with their short, A Single Life (pictured). Representing live action drama is Chris Lee and Paul Storrie’s The Hedgehog - an intriguing work which follows a man to an old house where he stumbles upon a peculiar truth to his lonely existence. And Paul Tarragó’s The Riddle (ghost chair) has experimental covered with its phantoms, parakeets, Super 8 hi-jinks, and actors in morph suits.

A Single Life (dir. Job, Joris & Marieke) Netherlands, 2013 – 2min

Imperial Provisor Frombald (dir. Elizabeth Hobbs) UK, 2013 – 4min

Familiar (dir. Joel Benjamin) USA, 2014 – 5min

Our Selves Unknown (dir. Edwin Rostron) UK, 2014 – 3min

The Riddle (ghost chair) (dir. Paul Tarrago) UK, 2014 – 11min

The Final Scene (dir. Mark Presdee) UK, 2015 – 9min UK premiere

The Lost Mariner (dir. Tess Martin) Netherlands, 2014 – 6min

The Hedgehog (dir. Chris Lee & Paul Storrie) UK, 2013 – 7min

Nr.99 (dir. Nina Ahmad & Elena Alessia Negriolli) UK, 2014 – 10min

Carpenter State (dir. Dorothy Allen-Pickard and Oliver Gordon) UK, 2014 – 11min

We Fix It All (dir. Becky Weston) UK, 2014 – 2min

Passer Passer (dir. Louis Morton) USA, 2013 - 4min