FILMS in Peel will participate in the global Future Shorts Festival on Wednesday.
A programme of six award-winning films from around the world will be shown at the Centenary Centre in the same week as community cinemas in London, Liverpool, Lille, Cologne, Paris, Birmingham, Baku, Madrid, Berlin, Tbilisi, Athens, Stockholm and Cape Town – amongst others.
With this event, Films in Peel is really putting the Centenary Centre, Peel, and the Isle of Man on the Future Shorts map.
Founded in 2003, Future Shorts ({http://www.futureshorts.com.futureshorts.com}) was conceived from a desire to make short film more accessible to a mainstream audience.
Its founder and creative director, Fabien Riggall, originally from the Isle of Man, had an idea to put together programmes of short films to be screened across the globe in any venue or location.
It has been an incredibly successful initiative. The recent programme has been shown in more than 30 countries since November.
The island screening is brought to you by Films in Peel and supported by the Isle of Man Arts Council.
The screening starts at 7.45pm. The bar is open for 7.15pm. Tickets costing £4 and £3 are available from Celtic Gold in Peel or on the door.
Reservation tickets, with a seat guarantee , are available from Mostly Manx (Douglas), Shakti Man (Ramsey) and Thompson Travel (Port Erin).
The certificate is 18 and runtime is 90 minutes.
To see a trailer of these interesting, quirky, intriguing, clever shorts visit: {http://youtu.be/z3xWamQFaUk|youtu.be/z3xWamQFaUk}
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The Future Shorts Programme includes:
• The Eagleman Stag (UK, 2010). This unique 9-minute stop-motion animated film depicts a man’s haunting obsession with the passage of time and his unorthodox relationship with a beetle. Orchestral music was integral to this film and composed in tandem with the animation process. It was winner of Best Short Animation at BAFTA, and Special Jury Prize at SXSW.
•• God of Love (US, 2010) This 19-minute inventive comedy about love-inducing darts won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short in 2011.
• Deeper Than Yesterday (Australia, 2010). This was filmed on a decommissioned military submarine with 35mm cameras. It tells the story of a Russian crew who suffer a rather savage form of cabin fever. Jurors have compared the film to The Lower Depths, Maxim Gorky’s best-known play – very Russian with long periods of isolation and madness. It was winner of the International Short Filmmaking Award at Sundance.
• Incident by a Bank (Sweden, 2009). This is a detailed and humorous account of a failed bank robbery. A single take where roughly 100 people meticulously recreate an actual event that took place in Stockholm in June 2006. It was winner of the Golden Bear at Berlinale.
• Luminaris (Argentina, 2011). Inspired by the Argentinian instrumental tango piece Lluvia de Estrellas (Star Rain), Luminaris tells the story of a man living in a world controlled and timed by light. Each day inhabitants of this fictional world awake and are pulled, as if by some otherworldly force, to their jobs by sunlight. This was winner of the Audience Award at Annecy International Animation Festival.
• The External World (Germany, 2010). A boy learns to play the piano in this rather dark but occasionally humorous mediation on the anxieties and fears of a modern civilized society. Created as a lo-fi animation, The External World is a surreal 17-minute collection of vignettes which borrows themes from pop culture, cinema and videogames – classic and contemporary. It was winner of Best Animation at the Tampere Film Festival.