Aside from the winners shown in our last post, we take a look at a few of our personal favourites from last weekend’s Student Film Festival London.
Katja Flachberger directed the animated music video Between two Points for The Glitch Mob ft. Swan. The animation is a representation of the music industry, building a musician up to become a star before being dropped for the next big thing.
Minut de Glòria, directed by Eric Motjer, documents the trials and tribulations of Jimmy Jump, a 37-year-old Spanish man who has a very unusual ambition in life: to jump onto a football field and put his barretina (a traditional Catalan red hat) on Cristiano Ronaldo’s head.
Jonathan Schey gained rapturous applause from the audience for this comedy An Outstanding Performer. The film, which draws heavy influence from such British comedies as The Inbetweeners and Peepshow, follows a young man as he prepares to lose his virginity. The risqué ad-lib humour had the audience in stitches and the performance by lead actor Philip Labey was exceptional.
The Road Home by Rahul Gandotra told the tale of ten-year old Pico, a young boy struggling to settle into his new boarding school high in the Himalayas. Sick of being picked on by bullies, he decides to run away. As the film develops, we discover that the child is not only struggling with being far away from home, but is having a tough time accepting his ethnicity.
Alyssa Grossman’s film In The Light Of Memory dealt with the theme of nostalgia. Filmed in the Ci˛smigiu Gardens in Romania, Alyssa asks members of the public to reminisce on the past. The real highlight of the film was a cameo from a disheveled, stuffed deer used as a prop by the park photographer. The shots of uncomfortable looking children being made to pose on the decomposing animal were priceless!
The Student Success Stories segment featured screenings of famous directors such as David Yates’ (Harry Potter) earlier work. The best of the Success Stories films was Peter Strickland’s graduate film Bubblegum, which he made in his final year at the Reading College of Art in 1995. The film stars Andy Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn and the underground filmmaker Nick Zedd.
