The announcement of the UK Film Council Best Film Award and round up of the 7th London Short Film Festival, followed by the return of Filmmakers-in-Bands! These filmmakers are a talented bunch, effortlessly crossing from the filmic to the musical.
Breton
Award winning film makers in their own right, three-piece Breton leave their laboratory (an ex-Royal Mail sorting office) to showcase their unique brand of improvised Dance-led Avant-Grunge. Performing versions of tracks from their debut 10", Practical EP and accompanied by live visuals created exclusively for the London Short Film Festival, this promises to be a genre defying show of epic proportion.
(O) – A new audiovisual live performance by Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku
(O) is Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku’s third collaborative live performance after Oh Yes, (which Max and Noriko toured across Europe in 2009) and their cryptically-titled /\/\/\ (a 3-screen live animation performance).
Max and Noriko met studying Animation at the Royal College of Art. There are parallels in their animation-based experimental, semi-narrative, non-dialogue approach to working with film and video. They have collaborated on several projects ranging from tour visuals for The Egg and Basement Jaxx to stop-motion film Aanaatt and Max’s latest short film Spin.
With (O), Max returns to his teenage roots in sound/music-making and makes a first foray into live audio performance, complemented by Noriko’s surreal animated visuals.
The Glue Ensemble
The Glue Ensemble are not a band but the sort of casual fling that reminds you what love is all about and leaves you sick with regret and yet strangely satisfied. Acoustic and varied, the line-up is unfixed but still they stick. Featuring LSFF filmmaking friend Ben Blaine.