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- The lasting influence of David Bowie's legacy is explored by Calling the Shot's director Issy Snailham. Set in 1970s England, an introverted young boy discovers the transcendental and alluring brilliance of Bowie.
- A cautionary tale of nationalism (and the relative merits of pasties).
- A short animation about the filmmaker's journey as refugee to England via Calais, France. The film focuses on her stay for 25 days at the refugee camp or 'Jungle' in Calais, before she crossed the Channel as a stowaway.
- Ellen Pearson directs a collaborative project exploring the everyday experiences of Tilly Lawless, a sex worker in Sydney's decriminalised sex industry, understood within the context of society's taboos and an ever increasing call for international decriminalisation of the profession. Unlike previous documentation of sex work it welcomes the viewer into Tilly's world as a confidant, rather than as a voyeur.
- Scenes from a parallel universe where chickens are the dominant species.
- An insight into the haunting nature of depression from BFI Film Academy student, Darnell Smart.
- A woman loses her husband and finds a potted plant.
- Falmouth University alumnus and Spike Island artist in residence, Nick Popham takes a closer look at the hidden gestures that disturb an otherwise empty riverbank.
- A triangle of love and visions of freedom. Based on an excerpt from Szymanowski's Krol Roger. International Opera and Theatre Director Ella has worked on over 120 productions in 9 countries and is joint artistic director of Constella OperaBallet alongside Leo Geyer.
- Josh Blaaberg challenges notions of nationhood and identity in Woodland, a sensory short film about an elderly man recounting a life-changing summer holiday.
- My window view: study of the Roma community for Turner Prize director Winner Gillian Wearing's international collective project 'Your Views'.
- A man's quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.
- Citizens of a new planet connect with their African ancestors.
- In this intimate portrait of family relationships and rifts, NOSE reflects on the events and people that make us who we are.
- Another dull Sunday at her father's.
- Bristol-based animator Sophie Marsh created an ABC fact file-filled with animals in her paper film for adults. Produced by Calling the Shots.
- A man follows a piece of string that guides him through his life.
- A young woman revisits a momentous decision in Fragile by Anna Merida Wylder. Anna is interested in projects that make people think, address taboo subjects and break silences. She had no previous experience of film making before this project.
- A mixed media animation short about characters making tiny teacups and also falling in and out of love.
- 'Chickens' directed by George Wu, has been chosen to be part of the 'Random Acts' series currently airing on Channel 4 at midnight on Thursdays. George worked with illustrator, Meng-Chia Lai to create a touching and charming story of how friendships develop and change. With a music score by Athos Tsiopani, Meng-Chai Lai's delicate, seemingly simple, line drawings are able to portray a complexity of emotions in a sensitive way.
- Hairatage - Bristol based-poet, journalist and filmmaker Aisha Sanyang-Meek explores the social, political and personal aspects surrounding afro hair through the medium of spoken word.
- Channel 4 are making a film about Jay, a young man with cerebral palsy. Or are they? James is a photographer and artist from Cheltenham. Born with cerebral palsy, his ambition is to develop a comedy series about a man with - cerebral palsy.
- Life Cycle - Exploring the relationship between humans and nature. Bridgwater College student, Nathan Sibley draws comparisons between nature and the deserted structures that humans leave behind.
- A Bernini plaster cast traverses various physical and virtual, filmic states. The film stages the production process of vacuum forming a plaster copy from the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647- 1652) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The scene is set in an anonymous metal workshop where the operations of the vacuum former and actions of the technician are observed in a highly surveyed arena through multiple disembodied perspectives. Denying any formal conclusion, the film is a form of reverse engineering that takes the object back into a screen and the bodily movements of the performer are analyzed using an artificial motion tracking.
- A video and sound art piece exploring the bizarre and sometimes eerie world of self-storage facilities. Naomi Bowey reflects on how society dictates our emotional relationship to our possessions.
- An insight into graphic and motion designer Chris Price's life and experiences living with Cystic Fibrosis. Me and My Lungs focuses on achieving balance and turning challenges into creative opportunities.
- A cooling short film from Calling The Shots director Sophie Malpas, who enters into the weird and wonderful secret world of an ice lolly disco.
- A pessimistic couple have forgotten the beauty of the outside world - Ella and Lois both attended the BFI Film Academy before teaming up and discovering a passion for Animation. Ella is currently working on an Art Foundation course at Bristol School of Art and Lois is studying Media and Performing Arts.
- Energy is expressed through bodies in movement in Impetus. Jemima Fahy is a director with a keen interest in dance who has just graduated from a BA in Choreography from Falmouth University.
- Dr Frank Buckett invents the Expando-Ray, what could possibly go wrong? Marnik Loysen is a 3D Animator and Model maker who after making his Random Acts film in Aardman's studios, has been hired to work on their new feature film.
- What make a man a man?
- Leonardo realises that he may be a character in his own film - A University of Gloucestershire graduate, Mitchell Ward's speciality is sound design for film. He says his fascination for sound comes from his lifelong love of beatboxing.
- An extended moment of tension, in bodies, space and sound, and its eventual and inevitable collapse.
- Bristol based, fine artist Ben Tupper used his family home as a set and drew influence from Sergei Parajanov's 'The Colour of Pomegranates' and Jean-Luc Godard's '2 or 3 Things I Know About Her' in this poetical analysis of domesticity.
- A man leaves an affectionate message for his daughter while driving slowly through a car wash. As he recalls their weekend together and memories from her childhood, it becomes clear that this is more than just a catch-up.
- A strange man explores an even stranger room in this short by Calling The Shots young filmmaker Harry Wyld.