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Mass for Shut-ins [Trailer/Teaser]

Trailer / Teaser for “Mass for Shut-ins.”

FilmArte Festival Madrid (Semi-Finalist) 2020 AltFF Alternative Film Festival (Semi-Finalist) Toronto 2020 LA Underground Film Forum 2020 (Honorable Mention) Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2020 Couched Film Festival, Australia 2020 Couch Festival (Best Experimental Short) Toronto 2020 Video Art Forum, Saudi Arabia 2020 Exploding Cinema, London 2020 Pinewood Studios UK 2020 Agora – Off Cultural Space, France 2020 Undercurrent Art Gallery, Brooklyn 2020

Mass for Shut-ins. A hand-painted 16mm film. Direct animation. 8 minutes. “A fever dream. An infinitely morphing kaleidscopic stained glass window; bells that remind me of the sounds of Amsterdam, my second home after New York. Frantic REM sleep kicks in around 5 minutes…”

A pandemic film made under quarantine, Spring 2020. How do we survive this pandemic? We survive through art & music.

Exploding Cinema

I headed to Exploding Cinema at London’s Cinema Museum in November, in part to support filmmaker Molly Brown who creates humorous animated shorts, often of the horror genre!

I first met Molly at Kino London where she seemed to have a new film every month, and always looked forward to watching her surreal shorts. At Exploding Cinema Molly screened This Mourning, a daytime TV show for the dead that was also enjoyable for the living too (and certainly a big improvement on real daytime TV)! This Mourning isn’t online but her other animations are, you can watch a selection on Vimeo.

It was good to catch the other shorts as well, and to explore the Cinema Museum a little in the dark.

Screening last May

In other related but old news, my short film A Version of Us also screened at Exploding Cinema back in May, although I wasn’t able to attend due to living in Sydney at the time. I still hope to screen this film on 16mm again as the digital version isn’t anywhere near as aesthetically pleasing - so let me know if you hear of 16mm screening opportunities.