More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2012
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28 November
Aline Conti presented six short films last night, some as short as five to seven minutes, which had been presented as an organized sequence under the umbrella The Joy of Six (which is also what a group of Cambridge poets have been calling themselves for many a year) by Soda Pictures and New British Cinema Quarterly.
In conversation with Conti first, and then answering questions from the floor, Dan Sully and Chris Croucher, the director and writer / producer, respectively, of the last two films, were present. They seemed to think of the choice 'a mixed bag', and, when asked, would not have been wished to be placed anywhere else in the running order.
That said, I thought that what connected the films was that they were all psychological in nature, and it was quite an anxious feeling to go where each was leading, and that few, except perhaps Friend Request Pending (2011), gave you an unnecessarily clear sense of who people were and what they were doing.
To do justice to each film, I will have a posting per film, to which the items in the listing below link (all now live - 3 December):
1. Long Distance Information (2011) (7:42)
2. A Gun for George (2011) (17:22)
3. Scrubber (2012) (20:56)
4. Man in Fear (2011) (10:50)
5. The Ellington Kid (2012) (5:00)
6. Friend Request Pending (2011) (11:58)
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