Short Film Competition: Merry-go-round
Short Film Competition: Merry-go-round
Friday 20th May, 2022
Running time: 76 mins
This programme contains flashing imagery, it may not be safe for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to light.
While Mockingbird Screen 2 is accessible by wheelchair, there is currently no access to the disabled toilet from this screen.
The 5 short film competition programmes are presented with captions for D/deaf and Hard-of-Hearing audiences.
Life follows its (often chaotic) course in this animation programme full of ups, downs, and red herrings.
Nosy neighbours cross paths in the streets of Athens in the cheeky From the Balcony. A family camping trip takes a surreal turn in The Clearing. And in Sander Joon's story of filial love and car racing, a boy turns himself into... a tyre (Sierra).
On a more philosophical note, meditative Trait Calme and the thought-provoking C'est la vie invite us into the inner monologues of two men struggling with the instability of life, before up-and-coming animator Jack Gray takes us full circle through our humdrum existence with his hypnotic loop Menagerie.
Films
From the Balcony
(Dir: Aris Kaplanidis, Greece 2021, 12 mins)
UK premiere
C’est la vie
(Dir: Jacek Olejnik, Rafał Sankiewicz, Wojciech Sankiewicz, Bartosz Terlicki, Poland 2021, 13 mins)
UK premiere
The Hork
(Dir: Nicole Stafford, US 2021, 4 mins)
UK premiere
The Clearing
(Dir: Daniel Hope, UK 2021, 13 mins)
Trait Calme
(Dir: Gabrielle Mouret, France 2021, 6 mins)
UK premiere
Soft Tissue
(Dir: Cliona Noonan, Ireland 2021, 8 mins)
Sierra
(Dir: Sander Joon, Estonia 2022, 16 mins)
Menagerie
(Dir: Jack Gray, US 2022, 4 mins)
UK premiere
