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Accompanying the amazing feature film line up in Night of the Dead XI kicking off at midnight on Saturday 5 November, there will also be a fantastic selection of short films from around the world to celebrate horror in all its glory. The full line up of horror shorts is:
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Banana Motherf**kerDir. Fernando Alle, Portugal, 2011, [...] -
Working with the photogram technique, participants will use 16mm analogue sound and image samples to ‘compose’ in the darkroom, and hand-process the film! The result will be a sound/image collage, played back at the end of the workshop to produce ‘photo-sonic’ film strips. Using the area usually reserved for the 16mm soundtrack, sound is recorded [...]
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The Round Up combines the delicate choreography of a musical with the brutal sensibilities of a war film, profoundly influencing filmmakers from Sergio Leone to Béla Tarr. Set in a detention camp in Hungary 1869, at a time of guerrilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians, the film depicts the desperate quest to quell the last [...]
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A subtle and powerful political drama, The Prize tells its story with haunting originality, through the eyes of a seven-year-old child featuring beautiful cinematography and fantastic performances particularly by the young lead. Ceci and her mother have moved to a dilapidated beach house on the remote Argentine coast for fear of the repressive military regime. [...]
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A clear eyed and constructive survey of organic food production and sustainable land management, Think Global is an inspirational documentary identifying concrete local solutions to the global ecological mess. What are the common points between the millions of landless workers of the plains of Brazil, a couple of microbiologists in France, the world’s biggest organic [...]
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If you’ve never been to a Spanish launderette down a dark alley at 3 o’clock in the morning… you sure won’t be going now! Half chlaustrophobic stalker horror, half something else entirely, Blind Alley is trashy, chlaustrophobic, trippy, sometimes wonderfully bizarre and at other times a tense thriller that will make you wonder where it’s [...]
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Natalia Almada’s hypnotic and unsettling documentary uses stately, atmospheric cinematography to illuminate a dark corner of Mexican culture, the rapidly expanding El Jardin Cemetery. From dusk to dawn The Nightwatchman, ‘El Velador” accompanies Martin, the guardian angel whom, night after night, watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico’s most notorious Drug Lords. In the labyrinth [...]
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A gentle and poetic evocation of a rural childhood, Nana is also a narrative innovation, telling a story almost exclusively through the eyes and words of a four-year-old child. Nana lives in a stone house near her grandfather’s farm. Her young mother is clearly unhappy in their rural retreat and yearns to be elsewhere. Back [...]
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Some things about LIFF never change! It’s back, and it’s trashier, gorier, and downright more horrific than ever. Night of the Dead is once again taking over Hyde Park Picture House for eight hours of gore, trash, shocks, laughs, scares, and the downright bizarre. The ever popular short films and games are back to add [...]
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Richard Tuohy’s formidable 16mm films show exceptional artistic innovation, technical brilliance and inspired audiovisual strategies. An abstract visual exploration of an Australian Eucalyptus tree, a camera-less ‘rayogram’ film made by layering fly-screen material onto raw 16mm film stock (where the images also play the sound), the extraordinary movement and sound study of a restless hand, [...]
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