Flatpack On Demand No.1

Our first online programme kicks off in Tanzania with short doc Apostles of Cinema.

We follow 'the apostles' Frank, DJ Black, and Rehem, who are working to make films accessible via the unique practice of live ‘dubbing’.

Two short shorts follow. The first an attempt at mindfulness foiled by the chaos of the ‘to do list’ (To Do). The second a new story told via archive footage, exploring the transformative power of sisterhood (Sisters).

Rounding things off is the winner of our WTF award last year, Hardly Working. In the words of last year's jury members...

"Who knew the ‘non-playable’ characters of a popular video game could tell us so much about the absurdity of late capitalism and the futility of work? A bleak but brilliant ethnographical parable of our times. Hardly Working took us to somewhere unknown, a digital nightmare with a powerful message for humanity delivered with a dose of deadpan. We were taken by the sheer originality and impactfulness of this work."

Programme

Apostles of Cinema
(Dir: Darragh Amelia, Gertrude Malizana, Jesse Gerard Mpango & Cece Mlay, Tanzania, 16 mins)

To Do
(Dir: Saul Pankhurst, UK 2022, 3 mins)

Sisters
(Dir: Marisa Hoicka, Canada 2022, 2 mins)

Hardly Working
(Dir: Total Refusal, Austria 2022, 20 mins)

Flatpack On Demand is one of three short film programmes available online in March, a mixture of award winners and audience favourites from the Flatpack 2023 programme.