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You can see Brexicuted at this rather spectacular screening at the London Short  FIlm Festival on the 13th January 2019. It’s going to be amazing. You can book tickets here and here’s the line up. 

Received some good news this weekend, my very silly micro-short film “Moonage Ice Cream” has been selected to screen at London Short Film Festival 2019!

The film is an 80 second audio/ visual remix of the work of David Bowie, made from animating 10 different Bowie-related album covers and accompanied by a cut-up track I made from isolated Bowie vocals (listen here).

The full programme is still still to be announced, so more details to follow soon!

by Fringe! programmer Martha Margetson

Tearoom, dir William E. Jones

The full LSFF programme has just dropped for 2018, the festival’s 15th birthday, and it is [fire emoji] [fire emoji]. As anyone who’s been able to have a peruse will tell you, the whole programme is [fire emoji], with vital new partnerships, industry events and special presentations, but here are our top queer picks for Fringe! friends and fam to seek out.

Superdyke Meets Madame X, dir Barbara Hammer

Making our hearts fly with excitement is a special Barbara Hammer event, Radical Softness through a Haptic Lens featuring her classic DYKETACTICS, infamous SUPERDYKE MEETS MADAME X, and recently restored Chick Strand work SOFT FICTIONS. Barbara Hammer skypes in to join us for a Q&A with Club des Femmes goddess Selina Robertson. (13 Jan, ICA)

The Cricket and the Ant, dir Julia Ritschel

Later that night is the first installation of New Queer Visions: Don’t Look Back in Anger, which amasses films chronicling heartbreak, romantic return, and the function of memory in queer love connections. A programme that queers the notion of eternal recurrence seen in such films as Eternal Sunshine. (13 Jan, Moth Club)

The next day LSFF host a special screening of Daughters of the Dust, Julie Dash’s iconic 1991 portrait of the Black women of Gullah and their struggle to retain traditions over generations. The influence of Daughters’ cinematography on today’s visual culture can’t be overstated. (14 Jan, Moth Club)

The Body Beautiful, dir Ngozi Onwurah

Later than night sees a retrospective of Ngozi Onwurah’s films as LSFF screen Onwurah’s vital cinematic images of blackness in a long overdue retrospective of her work. A stunning programme filled with personal stories of British black womanhood with socio-political consciousness. There will also be a panel on Onwurah’s career with Ngozi herself in attendance, alongside producer Simon Onwurah, and actors Hilja Lindsay-Muwonge and Sian Ejiwume-Le Berre. Includes the unmissable mother-daughter film The Body Beautiful. (17 Jan, ICA)

Make sure to catch a screening of Chris Kraus’ shorts, Cruelty and Crime. From feminist readings of Antonin Artaud to Cold War sleeper agents, via dominatrices and New York City crime scenes, these funny shorts from acclaimed writer of ‘I Love Dick’ Kraus form an exceptional programme. Writer and editor of Afterall, David Morris, filmmaker Ruth Novaczek and the writer Joanna Walsh join for a post-screening discussion of Kraus’ films. (18 Jan, ICA)

Fringe! Director Alex Karotsch speaks on LSFF Industry panel Let’s Talk About Sex with other industry pros. Come discuss the practical and ethical issues of exploring sexual desire on film. In partnership with Docheads. (18 Jan, Moth Club)

Another industry event that caught our eye is Female Collectives. Talk to the women driving change in film with this line up of superstars: Club des Femmes’ Selina Robertson, Bechdel Test Fest’s Corrina Antrobus, I Am Dora’s Jemma Desai, and Final Girls, Anna Bogutskaya and Olivia Howe. (19 Jan, Moth Club)

Innocence, dir Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Attendees may also be interested in a day of events looking at female auteur Lucile Hadzihalilovic. Don’t miss this day of celebration of  Hadzihalilovic’s distinct auteurship; the director’s films from the 90s onwards express a texture and sensuality over topics of teen sexuality and human perception. The event begins with a programme of her shorts at midday, followed by a screening of Hadzihalilovic’s first feature Innocence, set in a secluded girls’ boarding school and starring Marion Cotillard. (20 Jan, Curzon Soho)

MC Paigey Cakey

Closing night Home Girls is comprised of a screening From Cookie Crew to Now, which gathers onscreen representations of women in hip hop with a special guest panel, and closing night party with Paigey Cakey heading a stellar line up, this ICA takeover celebrates the journey and legacy of the female MC. Tun up. (20 Jan, ICA)

But the fun doesn’t end with Home Girls as the next day LSFF host a programme of New Shorts: Highly In/Visible. This exciting programme of new work considers visibility in the context or religion, race, sexuality and gender, chronicling people’s becoming visible. Especially enlightening are Amrou Al-Kadhi’s auto-biographical Run(a)way Arab, and lesbian sci-fi short Joey. (21 Jan, Curzon Soho)

Tearoom, dir William E. Jones

We’ll also be hoping to catch this incredibly exciting event: ‘Originally filmed in 1962 by the Ohio police’ … Video artist William E. Jones’ cruising and police surveillance exploration Tearoom screens in full, alongside Robert Yang’s video game response The Tearoom which, when censored, the artist replaced all visible genitals with guns to secure release. To discuss the issues raised by this video game response, this act of censor evasion, and by Jones’ original work which repurposes surveillance footage in a vital comment on public space, LSFF amasses artist Prem Sahib, filmmaker Sam Ashby, Robert Yang & Dr. Fiona Anderson for a panel. (21 Jan, ICA)

WOLVES, dir Maria Balduzzi

LSFF treat us to another New Queer Visions screening of lengthier, or ‘meatier’ shorts in their Medium Rare programme: 5 longer shorts about queer sexual desire and expression, including the infamous Sodom’s Cat by Fox Huang. (21 Jan, ICA)

Our film Yours Faithfully Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) plays in competition at the London Short Film Festival this January at the ICA. Here’s the billing and you can buy tickets here. 

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” The masks we build ourselves prove essential in these stories of school bullying, macho posturing and online bravado, with more complex defenses coming to light in a Sixties women’s space programme (The Purple Plain) and the secret life of playwright Joe Orton. Also watch out for Jodie Whittaker (Dr. Who, Broadchurch) and Ashley Walters (Bullet Boy, Top Boy) in Untitled. 93 mins

FRY UP Charlotte Regan 8 mins

Set in the urban backdrop of North London, Fry-Up is an intimate portrayal of what could be a families last day together.

GIRL A Jess O'Brien 7 mins

A teenage girl is reprimanded by the head teacher of her school following a violent incident with another student. As we follow a section of her life over three days, the reasons for her violent behaviour are revealed.

ALT.LIFE Teddy Nygh 13 mins

alt.Life is powerful short drama about the dangerous consequences of social media. Obsessed with online friends, popularity, image and likes Mikey is so caught up in creating an aspirational lifestyle that he loses sight of who he really is. Will he be able to show his true self? Or will online likes be the only ones that count.

BECKETT Paul Daly 7 mins

Living in isolation, Beckett struggles to find direction in his life in the wake of becoming a father. Finding no solace in his religious faith, he acts change his ways and face the family he has neglected. Shot on 16mm, Beckett is a fictional filmic portrait centred on inhibited masculine emotion and the personal and physical effects of this.

JOHNNY THINKS Malcolm Rumbles 4 mins

Johnny Thinks is based on a poem called What Johnny Thinks written by Sam Small. She is a woman trying to fit in a society, which rejects her. This detachment leads to further rejection, substance abuse and eventually suicide.

NOWHERE YET Gabriel Bagnaschi 10 mins

A teenage boy living in a tough Edinburgh neighbourhood has to figure out how far he’s willing to go to save his breakdancing crew when his best friend starts pushing for a street gang.

UNTITLED William Bridges 8 mins

A woman sits waiting for her train home. A stranger sits next to her and starts talking. He knows things about her that he shouldn't know, intricate details of her life and the lives around her, personal details of her past and future. He tells all this because he has a message, something she needs to hear...

CAGE OF CURVES Liberty Antonia Sadler 3 mins

A body positive poem, delving into the power of the soft femme figure, and rejecting dogmas of aesthetic hierarchies in the embrace of personal physicality. Featuring drawings from 'Intimate' (life drawing series), and an isolated singular voiceover, the audience is allowed into a stripped bare emotional landscape.

THE PURPLE PLAIN Kim Albright 13 mins

The untold story of the Mercury 13, the women who challenged the conventions of their time in their quest for space.

YOURS FAITHFULLY EDNA WELTHROPE (MRS) Chris Shepherd 5 mins

Multi award winning and BAFTA nominated director Chris Shepherd (Dad's Dead, The Ringer) directs a short animation in tribute to Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot) to mark the 50th anniversary of his death. Voiced by Alison Steadman (Gavin and Stacey, Abigail's Party) and Robin Sebastian (Hancock's Half Hour, Babs). Joe Orton would write letters of complaint using the pseudonym of Edna Welthorpe. Using this persona Orton would wind up companies, vicars and even ridicule his own plays. In this short we see what mayhem ensues when Edna writes to Smedley Jams and Littlewood home catalogue service.

THE BIG DAY Dawn Shadforth 15 mins