Snapshots – The Making of Longbird – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
The Making of Longbird was the fourth and final screening during the Snapshots strand at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. What made this screening so significant was that the animation screen 24 hours before it won the Bafta award for Short Animation., a fine triumph for a recent graduate...
Snapshots – I am Tom Moody – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
I am Tom Moody (2012, Directed by Ainslie Henderson) is a short animated film screened as part of the Snapshots strand at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. The short was introduced by Ian Gardner who chose the film as part of the strand, highlighting the work of recent graduates...
Snapshots – Tea Party – Short Film Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Snapshots is a unique strand within the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Showcasing short animated films from recent graduates from the Edinburgh College of Art animation programme, we are treated to a delightful short animation and a conversation between director/animator Vitalij Sichinava and animator/curator Iain Gardner. Gardner has chosen a...
Fast Film, Slow Burn: Uncommon Singularity -Short Film Programme Review @ Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival
Any good short film screening will have an eclectic mix and the animated shorts programme (Fast Film, Slow Burn: Uncommon Singularity) at the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh had just that. In total 10 films were screened for a range of countries such as Canada, Estonia, Russia, France and Hungary....
London Short Film Festival: A Night of Celluloid @LSFF
The LSFF London Short Film Festival opening night took place at the ICA on the 4th January. “A night of celluloid” was the name of the session taking place on the 6th January 2013 at Roxy Bar & Screen. It was a night to celebrate the screening of three shorts. “Screen Bandita” a super-8 styling...
“Baby Goose”
“Stars are always rising and falling in America” Every five minutes there is a new face on the television, and they are more attractive and sell more aftershave than their predecessor. But what of the silver screen? Ryan Gosling, the man of the hour. I have been slowly monitoring his career over the last year...
Filmmakers: FlaneurTV seeks short films and videos
Ongoing call for films The Flaneur is starting an online TV station on Youtube to broadcast all of the fabulous short films that never get seen after the first round of festivals. All films chosen will be mentioned in a post on the site. What films are we looking for? We have broad interests and...
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I Write the Bee Sides…
Trawling junk shops, getting covered in chalk & charcoal, scavenging for a drum kit. These are probably not the usual activities of someone preparing for a book launch. But with seismic changes afoot (that’s right I used the word seismic), the literary world is throwing the traditional tweed manual for correct behaviour out of the...
