DYSPLA International Moving Image Festival, 14th-18th March at The Crypt Gallery
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Awards Ceremony, Gala & Gin Reception:
14th March, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, £30.00
Industry Panel Discussion:
15th March, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, £10.00
Daily festival screenings:
15th March, 1-7 PM; 16th-18th March, 1-8:30 PM, £5.00
*All tickets will include £1 booking fee. Tickets are an extra £5.00 on the door.
Slawomir Milewski - Smart Dress Is Absolutely Essential
Slawomir Milewski is a London based Polish artist and filmmaker, born in 1979. He completed his Master degree at University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland. He was awarded a scholarship by Universite Rennes 2 in Rennes, France.
His films has been presented and awarded at numerous festivals and exhibitions in North and South America, Europe and Australia. Currently he is realising his first feature abstract film: Nostalgia for existing without delay.
“The film is a study for a larger work that refers to the Bataille-esque theme of transgression and retaining that which is transgressed.”
From London but now living in Los Angeles. I graduated with a Degree in Fine Art and Film Making at Central Saint Martins, London. I exhibit my artwork and video installations in art galleries and festivals both in the UK and US.
Am I the person I remember or am I the person I forget?
A short documentary filmed over the course of 5 days that I have no memory of filming. I have epilepsy and I documented myself experiencing Complex Partial Seizures. They are internal and terrifying with little outwards signs that parts of your brain are mis-firing, playing havoc with perception and memory, it is exhausting and relentless. The fact that I don't recognize the person I am while filming does that mean its not 'me', what part of me is me , the me I remember or the me I forget?
Mads Johan Øgaard - I Am Dyslexic
Mads is a Norwegian born in 1993. He has recently graduated Falmouth University with a first class honors degree in Animation and VFX. Since then Mads has started his Masters degree in special education at Exeter University. He is currently illustrating a book in collaboration with the Norwegian Dyslexia foundation titled 'Dyslexi Norge' (Dyslexia Norway). This book is an informative book about Dyslexia and is aimed for children and teenagers and features the characters in his student film I AM DYSLEXIC.
His dream is to help as many as possible with and without a learning difference, to find there best way to help them learn learning! Mads Is proud to be a Dyslexic and Dyscalculic individual!
The animated short film I AM DYSLEXIC expresses what it feels like to have a learning difference in our current school system. Those with learning differences should be proud of who they are and should never be made to feel alone. The film uses strong metaphors to portray these emotions, as we follow a little boy in his journey to climb a mountain in a world made of books.
Martin Lennon - Oor Walley
Irish born Martin Lennon is an independent documentary filmmaker, based in the Netherlands. Martin has produced, directed and edited a number of projects which have been shown across Europe and the World.
His latest short documentary "Oor Wally" follows Stenhousemuir's unconventional mascot "Wally the Warrior" across an eventful football season.
Oor Wally (The Warrior) is a lighthearted documentary short film that follows Scotland's most unique mascot Wally the Warrior across an eventful football season. Wally also happens to be Eleanor, a mother of eight and and granny of seven. Every home game she wears the Wally costume with pride even though every season the team face another relegation battle.
Margarita Ospina - Home - La Casa
I have been trained in various creative areas, as I traveled through different countries and cities, graphic design in Ecuador, textile design in Colombia, design of prints in Barcelona, pictorial art in New Jersey. I have a Master in Multimedia Design in Madrid. I have taken courses in script, editing and creative writing.
6 years ago I decided to look for a form of artistic expression that was creative and that would help me to understand and express my neurodiversity as well as others’. For this reason I studied documentary film making in Madrid. From the beginning I have explored, with my work, my diversity as a dyslexic person as well as the world of human emotions.
Currently I work on a animated children serie in Stop Motion that pursues to develop the self-knowledge of children. I combine this activity with the production and editing of videos for both companies and individuals and my voluntary work in the association of Madrid with Dyslexia.
Home, La Casa is about the personal struggle and internal conflicts the main character faces due to her neurodiversity. She seeks for the sufficient courage to get off her bed and confront her fears. However, overall, she is looking for a place which could provide her shelter, protection... she is looking for a place she can call home (La Casa).
Kieran Thompson - Clutter
Kieran was born and raised in South London to parents Susan, a teacher, and Anthony Albert Thompson, also a teacher and musician. Diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at the age of 5. Moved to the Isle of Wight at the age of 9. Discovered filmmaking passion aged 12 by contributing to documentaries made at Nodehill Middle School.
As a teenager he joined youth filmmaking group Streets Ahead which made educational films about drug & alcohol abuse, island history and STDs, using highly creative and often humourous methods. Graduated from the University for the Creative Arts (Farnham) in 2013 with a 2:1 in Digital Film & Screen Arts. Has built up a portfolio of different work ranging from small experimental film works to collaborations on documentaries, short dramas and promotional films.
A subjective expression of how an autistic mind works. How distracting sounds such as background chatter, computer fans and other buzzing noises can disrupt the intake of verbal information, then the information stream gets broken into pieces with loose ends.
Dana Dimant - High Functioning
Dana Dimant is a human rights publicist, director and script writer, living in Ramat-Hasharon, Israel. Dana was nominated for the 2012 OFIR Awards (the Israeli Oscars) for her script for the feature film "Off White Lies". "High Functioning" is Dana's directional debut.
Dana is the mother of an autistic child. While searching for help for her daughter, she discovers ACI, a captivating group of autistic activists, trying to bring about a change in public awareness and get people to understand that autism isn't just a disability. It is an identity! Dana joins them on a journey that will change everything she thought she knew about autism and about herself.
Thomas Walker has worked as a filmmaker in a professional and an amateur capacity for years - writing, directing and editing. His credits include short films, promos, music videos, training DVDs and web videos.
CTRL is about the often-fragmentary public perception of neurodiversity, compounded by its multifaceted nature. Every individual with neurodivergence is unique. CTRL tells a short story based on a variety of real experiences of trying to understand, manage and live with some aspects of neurodiversity and their challenges. I humbly hope that CTRL can in some way help others to pause for thought or reconsider; every change has to start somewhere.
Natalie started making cartoons from a very young age. She focused on creating characters for insects, bugs and animals that carried on to this day, as shown in her recent animation ‘ME MICE SELF AND I’, which was screened at Daisyfest 2016 in Guildford, UK.
Natalie is skilled in developing character design, creating character driven animation and using 2D Digital animation programmes such as TVPaint to create lively and colourful films, designed to appeal to children and adults alike.
Natalie is currently studying for a Master of Arts in Animation at The University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. She achieved a BA Hons in Animation at the same University in 2005.
Natalie enjoys travelling overseas to do a variety of voluntary work. She has been to Brazil, Madagascar and Ghana. She loves to experience different cultures and new adventures. Natalie painted a mural for a school in Madagascar using her distinctive characters.
Hyperactive 6 year old Zack, constantly ignores his mother's demands to do his homework as he flits from one activity to another.
Sofie graduated from Staffordshire University with a 2:1 in Fine Art in 2016. Since then she has been using the same medium as she did during university, which is video and sound. However she has also been working on digital prints, using Photoshop to create a colourful and abstract glitch pattern on photographs. In her work she enjoys experimenting with combining digital and analogue imagery, using technology as an assistant in her work. During her time at university she was diagnosed with Dyspraxia, and since then has found ways to work with the disability, by acknowledging and using her strengths. For instance, her dyspraxia causes a sensitivity to sound, and so she has been working with sound as a material a lot more since discovering this. Her work focuses on abstract concepts including existentialism and time as a human construct. Her work is now getting featured in exhibitions around the UK and internationally.
'Dead Air' utilizes digitally enhanced instruments to make the listener aware of the sound travelling in a circular motion as it pans from left to right. The sound, a digitally distorted bassoon, was edited to create a resonance similar to a gravelly texture to accompany a large scale recording of the moon, configuring it so that it sounds as though the listener is travelling along the moon's surface.
The arrangement of the melody is reminiscent of the sound of a phone being hung up, playing in a repetitive sequence. As the sound plays out it appears as though the main subject, the moon, is being pulled into the scene, providing a powerful introduction to what we know as the symbol of the night.
The film looks at the way we spend our time during the night as humanity hanging up on their experience in the daytime, preparing for another phone call with the following sunrise.
Kasia Zimnoch & Pawel Kleszczewski - Broken Tale
Kasia Zimnoch and Paweł Kleszczewski are duo of Polish filmmakers and visual artists living in Ireland. They create animations based on mythology, folklore and legends. In their animations, they combine artistic experience with elements of art history, ethnology and cultural anthropology. Both graduated with an MA from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. In 2013, they established an animation studio ‘Konik Studio’ in Cavan.
This year they have been awarded the “Młoda Polska” Scholarship from Polish National Centre for Culture. Their recent animation ‘Broken Tale’ received Best Animation Award of XXIX Fano Film Festival in Italy, and was presented at numerous international festivals. Works on the project were conducted during artistic residencies in Jönköping in Sweden, Centre For Creative Industries in Tartu, Estonia and in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. They received the Cavan County Council Arts Development Award 2018. They also received the Polish Culture Around the World grant funded by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. In 2017 they were nominated for the BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER 2017 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
In animation we combine Slavic folklore with Scandinavian and Celtic. The plot was inspired by Swedish folk tale Sagan om lilla älgtjuren Skutt och prinsessan Tuvstarr, showing girl’s symbolic journey to the of the girl to lake hidden in the depths of the forest. Her companion and mystical guide is Elk (the forest king in Swedish folklore). During the trip girl meets creatures known from folklore of different European nations. The ‘Broken Tale’ project consist of 2D works, paintings, prints, drawings.
James Olivo - Give Attention
James is dyslexic, has dyspraxia and strong indicators of Attention Deficit Disorder. James is also mainly a movement artist, composed of many styles within the two trees of contemporary and hip hop. James is also passionate about finding his unique way of filmmaking. The way he works is to work without storyboard, and film whatever his eye finds intriguing to him. Then to piece things together, according to his eye and gut. Striving heavily for raw, honest, genuine, human behaviour/actions/expressions. A more abstract, less-information, simple but complex, kind of artist.
The film is also about the thoughts an individual might have, when told they have these learning difficulties... Maybe that they need help? Now labelled with 'learning difficulties'. Should I think less of myself? and so on...
Campbell McConnell - Deck Chair
Born in London in 1995 Campbell Mcconnell is an artist living and working in London. Campbell Studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Central St Martins College of Art and Design and Art and Design at City and Islington College. Campbell Uses the grotesque to potentially parody cultural ideas of success. Challenging expectations of identity within popular culture through absurd humour.
A constant repetition of an attempt to sit in a deck chair. The performer is faced with a dilemma, that is a badly made deck chair. The beached themed music and bright colors attempts to mask the idea of trial and error. The constant need to achieve and succeed at a task can be tedious. This task being the attempt to place ones self successfully onto a deck chair.
ALL FILMS WILL BE SCREENED CONTINUOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL
Awards Ceremony, Gala & Gin Reception:
14th March, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM, £30.00
Industry Panel Discussion:
15th March, 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM, £10.00
Daily festival screenings:
15th March, 1-7 PM; 16th-18th March, 1-8:30 PM, £5.00
*All tickets will include £1 booking fee. Tickets are an extra £5.00 on the door.
The Crypt Gallery, Euston Rd, King’s Cross, London, NW1 2BA
Closest national rail and underground stations: King’s Cross & Euston
