A quite extraordinary film from Alex Boya and the National Film Board of Canada. Turbine is an animation, originating from monochrome drawings on paper and at only eight minutes long is another of the powerful short contributions for which the NFBC has become famous. Boya has succeeded in achieving significant and original insight into a …
Elizabeth Hobbs takes on the life and work of Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), the Austrian artist, poet, essayist and playwright, for her six minute animated short film “I’m OK”. Using simple broad brush water colour artwork with a stop-motion approach Hobbs presents dozens of pictures that take us through Kokschka’s life with art, highly emotional …
J’aime les filles (Reviewed May 21st 2018) A wonderful, unique, eight minute film from Diane Obomsawin exploring love, identity awakening, exploration, joy, passion, confusion and discovery. The profound sensitivity with which Obomsawin goes about her craft is evidenced in her ability to tell such a complete story in so short a time period. Rightly recognised …
The IMIS starting off its excellent work this year with a good Networking opportunity. Hope you can make it. We will be continuing to report on the work of the IMIS from this Blog throughout the coming year. Post-Holiday After Party: Xmas Might Be Gone, But The Party Is Still On
The Blog commenced its public work in November 2017 following my selection and appearance as a Jury member at the 2017 Dieppe/Brighton Film Festival. The experience in working with Nicolas Bellenchombre, Ben Collier and fellow jury members Ludovic Bource, Bennock O’Connor, Jean Sebastien Petitdemange, Corine Marienneau and Jean-Edouard Criquioche and the work of others in …
Boabolly Gunther is “A mercurial monster not a boy nor a girl but an adventure lover”. So opens this magical and highly topical film short from Elliot Kershaw. Boabolly lives alone, on a hillside, away from the village and people that he gazes down onto. Convinced that a Boabolly could never be accepted, could never …
This beautiful eight minute film from Diane Obomsawin manages to probe, explore, delightfully retell the story of love awakening, self-discovery, exploration, joy, passion, confusion, realisation, pain, identity-finding that Marie, Mathilde, Diane and Charlotte find on their experiential journey. Erotic, fumbling and realisation in their love for other women the story is both profound and sensitive …
A young man makes his morning coffee and a mouse in Haida appears knitting a blanket, at speed, that tells a great story. A great sea hunter sits on the shore of the ocean and goes into the sea to capture his prey. The hunter is himself captured and taken to an under sea world …
A five minute short dealing with the meaning of life, the entire course of time from the beginning to the end, the simplicity of everyday existence whilst universes explode and go out of being. All done and accomplished with the simplest of 2D images and with a narrative told by Canadian performer Nicolas Campbell. Eoin …
Picking up on some of her characters from elsewhere Chintis Lundgren, an Estonian by birth, has crafted an original fable that plays on a number of themes in a satirical way that utilises Theatre of the Absurd to tell its story. Manivald, a fox, lives at home with his domineering and possessive Mother. He plays …