'PRE-FEATURE SHORTS' at UGC Cinema, West India Quay

The Island Film & Video Festival in collaboration with UGC West India Quays has paired innovative and unique artists’ short films with features. The films have been carefully selected by Prenelle Gallery & Film London to compliment the features and give a taster of the vitality of artist work with film and video being celebrated throughout the festival. The work ranges from the semi-documentary through surreal animations to cutting edge image manipulation. This is a rare opportunity to artists films on the big screen.

SCREENING PROGRAMME:

'While Darwin Sleeps' by Paul Bush to be screened prior to The Woodsman

'The Queen’s Monastery' by Emma Calder to be screened prior to The Chorus

'Dad’s Dead' by Chris Shepherd to be screened prior to The Machinist

'Everyday Something' by Carol Morley to be screened prior to 9 Songs

'4 Mins at 2 am on 22nd July 2003' by AK Dolven to be screened prior to Somersault

'Camouflage' by Jonathan Hodgson to be screened prior to Melinda and Melinda

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While Darwin Sleeps… 35mm 5' 2004

Paul Bush

Thousands of insects pass through the film each for a single frame. It seems that the genetic progamme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes. It is like a mescalin vision dreamt by Charles Darwin. Carol Morley Everyday Something 35mm 13'43" 2001 Everyday Something is complied from Carol's extensive newspaper cuttings, ranging from the ridiculous to the disturbing, recounting tales of obsessive bird watchers alongside abused wives, in an inventive blend of humour and drama.

The Queen's Monastery 35mm 6'4" 1998

Emma Calder

Inspired by Leos Janacek's Sinfonietta animated short film, The Queen's Monastery is about a woman whose lover, a former acrobat, has returned to her from war a changed man. Using a highly individual watercolour technique the narrative explores themes of love, escapist fantasy, obsession and guilt.

Dad's Dead 35mm6'36" 2003

Chris Shepherd

A compelling story of friendship and denial, told through a series of ghostly reminiscences and visual flashbacks of a young man's fragmented memories from the past.

Camouflage 35mm 7'56" 2001

Jonathan Hodgson

Voiced visions of the voices in the head as multiform memories of parental paranoia get the heightened reality they require. Case-studies committed to celluloid. Sketches of schizophrenia that draw on reality and the time in the big house, behind the trees, too far from the road. Animated short film.

4 min at 2am 22 July 2003' 35mm.

AK Dolven

Dolven's film was made on the Lofoten islands in the far north of Norway. Although after midnight, the sun does not set on this spectacle of sublime natural beauty; rocks, sea and islands. Four androgenous figures observe the scene, as if transfixed.

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