Menu  (Joana Toste) 3 minutes                    

A portrait of the horribles, terribles, torturous and unbearables; the small dramas of everyday life. 

 

Artform (Alan E. Smith) 7 minutes U          

Artform is about control of the body, the mind, and the reduction of will power. Through •humanisation' the film demonstrates the control of the masses.     

 

Dog Fu (Rosa Lykiardopoulos) 2 minutes 15          

A battle between a man and dogkind.

 

Actaeon (Vaughan Pilikian) 10 minutes 12A

Animated retelling of the myth of Acteaon and Artemis.     

                                                                                                           

Pirouette (Franca Chretien) 7 minutes 12A 

A young bird finds itself the prisoner of an unknown captor with an unusual agenda.                                                                                

 

A Typical Dream In Colour (Alexandre Larose) 2 minutes U       

A short animated film that tells the tale of a little ghost that wishes to fly. 

 

Six Slice Six (Samuel Christopher) 5 minutes 15   

This is the achievement of the idea of an angel.

 

Monosum (Samuel Christopher) 2 minutes U          

This is the achievement of the idea of an angel.

 

Angel  (Samuel Christopher) 2 minutes U    

This is the achievement of the idea of an angel          

 

Consume (Lucius Yeo & Beles Alberdi) 2 minutes 15        

A humorous look at the unhealthy lifestyles many of us adopt but fail to realise. Ultimately emphasising that you really are what you eat.    

 

Capoeira (Lewis Campbell) 7 minutes 12    

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that combines dance and music with combat. This is a story about how it began.      

 

Zero Degree (Omid Khashnazor) 10 minutes 15     

Because of his villainous act, a soldier is captured inside a camera. He killed a man, and the camera wants to take revenge.

 

Babysitting (Rune Eriksson/Erik Eriksson) 20 minutes 15  

Little Igor finds out babysitting with his father means enjoying his own company. Especially if a game of football is on the telly.          

 

A Tough Crowd (Rune Eriksson/Erik Eriksson) 5 minutes 12A     

It's is talent night at The Black Cat and a man from Mars gets unexpected help from his rabbit, when facing a tough crowd.    

 

Penterghast (Tobias Tobbell) 7 minutes 15

A dark tale of a deformed teacher persecuted and bullied by her students. Eventually she is driven over the edge and shows them all how far they pushed her.          

 

VOC/VIP Holland Experience (Arno Coenen & Peter Leeuwerink) 15 minutes 15          

Surreal cyberview on Dutch glory, trademanship, and the fine arts. 

 

Immortal Coil (Andrew Purtell) 7 minutes 15        

In the distant future, when the human race is long extinct. 2 species of machine fight a pre-programmed battle for eternal life...

 

Oedipus (Jason Wishnow) 10 minutes 12A 

The story of Oedipus in 8 mins performed by vegetables in the tradition of Ben-hur.        

 

Animals In Motion   (Michael Johnstone) 2 minutes 15    

Based on Mybridge's motion studies, this video plays with the movement of both the body in the frame and the frames within the frame.

 

Longing For Moments Of Objectivity (Alexander Peterhaensel) 5 minutes U Because of it's formal austerity and it's minimalism the film feels like the logical extension of the jasmin universe into the visual domain. In a fine balance between sound and image the visual surface can dissolve and give way to a gentle wake through the night.           

 

S-Matrix (Matthias Groebel) 7 minutes 12A          

A downtempo trip into the Dionysiac depths of rhythm and rites while time travelling from post-war Cologne to the Brazilian carnival to vast empty seas. If you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.          

 

Vous Revez/Vous Ne Revez Pas (Alexander Peterhaensel) 30 minutes 12 

A journey into the realm between dreaming and not dreaming.         

 

Smile (Stuart Pond) 1 minute U       

From tooth to full face view with smile, continuous zoom taken from a high-resolution image slipped into the video software and processed.          

           

Der Doppelganger  (Stuart Pond) 10 minutes 15    

A video portrait of 'him' by 'him', the artist and his lifelong obsession with images of woman. It is also a study of the effects that rapidly alternating frames can create; excitement, confusion, disorientation.

 

Chicago (Neilon Pitamber) 15 minutes U    

A reflective, dark and at times joyful piece with the universal themes of time, place and people.           

 

Televisual Man (Steve Piper) 5 minutes 12A         

The piece explores Orwellian concepts of enforced surveillance, and has found further relevance in the age of reality TV.     

 

When She Fell In Love With London (Simon Hammett) 2 minutes U     

Created entirely from still images this film creates an illusionary and fascinating environment focussed around the beauty of the 'hustle and bustle' of London.

 

Are Dreams Made of This? (Lena Mattsson) 3 minutes 15          

Homage to the painter Francis Bacon and the Swedish Theatre Company Dopareus Dag. 

 

Door (Jon Gershon) 5 minutes U      

An art film of still imagery and poetry about doors. 

 

Metro Precipitation  (Stefan Fernandez) 10 minutes U     

About the Mexican underground mixed with images of bubbles in motion matching with the movement of the masses, symbolizing a constant precipitation.

 

Structure (Nokami) 7 minutes U     

The film has origins in the Wayang Kulit Shadow-Puppet Play, which is presented at night, with a large white screen illuminated by a bright light from behind.

 

Matrix Online Trailers Remix (Heri Mkocha) 10 minutes 15     

A remix of Matrix trailers downloaded lagally and free from the internet, as part of a whole legion-like community editing trailers/cartoons/media, and making something new from something old.

 

Station (Kathryn Mackinnon) 3 minutes U 

Poem depicting a small highland station ticket office, a metaphor for the state of society and industry there.     

 

Postcard (Kathryn Mackinnon) 2 minutes U           

A poster-art project based upon a poem written about the mass-produced nature of our travel/holiday experiences.     

 

Festival (Kathryn Mackinnon) 3 minutes U

Film-poem documenting the strange ritual of bullfighting in Serville. It illustrates the 'removed' sensation of viewing death.           

 

Flux (Kika Nicolela & Suzy Okamato) 10 minutes 15         

A body defies its exterior; wanders through the path from the impotency to the vital force and gradually fuses with the elements around it; a clay building, a valley, a river - striving to balance the inner and the outer world.                                                                               

No Freak (Reinhard Hoelker) 5 minutes U  

An actor is missing, off to be a freak.

 

Face To Face (Renata Szur)  3 minutes 15 

An experimental portrait about a gloriously broken girl.       

 

You Need A Permission (Maria D. Rapicavoli) 5 minutes U         

Using a camera as a tool to examine how the system interferes in our everyday lives, sometimes generating curious strange situations.      

 

Singing Anymore (Natasha Morris) 5 minutes 15 

8 football fans singing their teams song of chant, alone, in that teams ground.         

RCA Graduate Show 2005 120 minutes.

 

Bowie Art 60 minutes.

Anti-Antiques

At this years Portobello Film Festival Bowieart.com will be hosting, Anti-Antiques, a selection of films by the hottest young multimedia artists coming out of British art schools today. The collection of artists presenting work at the Westbourne Studios feature on BowieArt, David Bowie's art website that allows the online community direct access to the talents of young artists, giving them the exposure they deserve at an important time in their careers. Being current or recent graduates from top British colleges the BowieArt screening is sure to be a crowd puller and as with previous collaborations is sure to be a resounding success.

This year's highlights include new work by Erica Eyres, Anthony Gross and Naglaa Walker.

 

Journey Into Colour (George Martinez) 40 minutes 15     

Spray can art demystified!

 

Jerusalem (Natasha Morris) 1 minute U     

Mundane situations taken to their logically daft conclusions...        

 

Arcadia (Charlie Phillips) 3 minutes 12A     

The Arcadian dream has fallen through, but the Albion sails on course. So, man the forest and hoist the Star of David, because the Jews have found the source. And there are 12 rude animals on the oars.

 

Chubby Buddy - The Last Castrato (Erika Yeomans) 13 minutes 15       

A home movie about a man who gives up a career and marriage to act upon some peculiar impulses.        

 

Total Time = 540 minutes