ShortFusion: To Cry
Answering the question ‘who likes short shorts’, the briefest offerings were consistently the pithiest in Short Fusion’s TO CRY, writes Tom McNeill.
Answering the question ‘who likes short shorts’, the briefest offerings were consistently the pithiest in Short Fusion’s TO CRY, writes Tom McNeill.
Emad Burnat managed to capture, first hand, the actions of Israeli soldiers in a West Bank image in this deeply personal and affecting documentary. Andrew Nickolds reviews.
In CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY, time-honoured badboy and reputable polemicist Peter Doherty takes on the role of Octave, a 19th century version of his faltering and outré self.
With BLACKMAIL, Hitchcock continued to refine his unique ability to mix murder and suspense with generous helpings of comedy. Gavin Midgley reviews.
TO ACCOMMODATE is a well-chosen compilation of films, especially THE PUB by Joseph Pierce and THE OLD WOMAN by Ariane Mayer, writes Max Zeh.
PSYCHOSIS OF A SANE MAN, a collection of films from Anglia Ruskin University students, was a triumph and a brilliant chance to showcase innovative young minds behind the cameras, writes Jack McCurdy.
Told through the remaining members of the Chaabi music movement, EL GUSTO becomes more than an exploration of the music, but also a discovery of the city of Algiers, writes Mike Boyd.
DRYING FOR FREEDOM is a thought-provoking, original and absorbing documentary which investigates the decline in the washing line and the toll of electricity upon the environment, writes Lillie Davidson.
Serious and political, ambitious and thoughtful: INDIGNADOS is a Modernist collage that alerts us to the ongoing revolution in Europe, and demonstrates the power, rather than the magic, of film, writes H. Chan.
CHASING ICE follows the Extreme Ice Survey while they set up dozens of remote time-lapse cameras in order to monitor the retreat of several major glaciers. Lucy Sheppard reviews.