The Short Films of David Lynch (2002)

Thursday 2 April 2009

Collection of the early student and commissioned film work of American filmmaker David Lynch. As such, the collection does not include Lynch's later short work, which are listed in the filmography.

The Punk Years (2002)

(10 episodes - Music Documentary)

A definitive history of the music that shook the world, looking at the origins and development of the punk rock movement as a social, historical, political and musical force. Achieved a record audience for Play UK on Saturday July 13th 2002.

The Punk Years celebrates punk as a valid musical genre in its own right, like jazz or blues or soul. Not only Play UK’s most watched series ever, it is also widely acknowledged by long term fans of the genre as the best-ever series about the music. Appreciative comment focused on the great cross-section of interviewees and the programme’s honesty and integrity in dealing with a highly contentious, and for many people emotional and exciting, art form.

Programme 1: Wham Bam Thank You Glam:

A look at the nihilist rock n’ roll forefathers of punk - Warhol & The Velvets, Iggy & The Stooges, MC5, Glam rock - Roxy, Bolan and Bowie - and the British Pub rockers and discover why they had such an impact on the young punks-to-be.

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Programme 2: Year Zero:

New York’s punk scene developed from its roots in Warhol’s Factory and The Velvet Underground through to the New York Dolls and venues like Max’s Kansas City. We explore how the now legendary CBGB’s evolved into a seminal punk club, playing host to the likes of Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, Talking Heads and The Ramones and how the New York scene informed the nascent London punks.

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Programme 3: 1977 Never Get To Heaven:

The British cultural revolution that defied authority and confronted the rock hegemony. This episode focuses on the rise of the Sex Pistols and other emerging British punk bands such as The Clash, The Damned and The Buzzcocks and the reaction their exhilarating music and confrontational behaviour received from the British public.

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Programme 4: Take Three Chords:

Here we look at the myriad of bands that emerged taking punk’s Do It Yourself ethic literally. This episode also covers the fashion, music and graphics - looking at designers who developed the punk graphic style; fashion designers such as Westwood and not forgetting the birth of the fanzine culture.

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Programme 5: A Riot Of Your Own:

An outraged cry against the rising right wing sentiment in the country and a counter to National Front marches, organisations like the Anti Nazi League and Rock Against Racism formed. The band leading the way in energising punk in a political sense was The Clash, who played an integral role in the Rock Against Racism movement (as did many other punk groups), taking the stage alongside groups like Aswad and further cementing the links between punk and reggae. Anarcho-punk bands like Crass also began to emerge, taking on board anti-nuclear and vegetarian causes in opposition to the right wing politics of Oi! Bands. We discuss the political confusion caused by the mass of ideas thrown into the air by punk.

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Programme 6: Typical Girls:

Women were finally seen as equal in the punk movement. If you could pick up a guitar and play it - great. If you could sing and form your own band, even better. Women were finally getting a voice and not just as backing singers. We look at the women who rocked and discuss the great female punk performers - Siouxsie, The Slits, Pauline Murray, Poly Styrene, Debbie Harry and the seminal Patti Smith - and find out how true the idea that punk emancipated women from rock’s macho posturing really is.

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Programme 7: Ridicule Is Nothing To Be Scared Of :

The fashion of punk was more important than the music according to some. The episode looks at Sex and Acme Attractions, the two leading shops competing with each other on the Kings Road, and the effect they had influencing punk clones across the country. This episode also looks at the importance of the punk picture sleeve and how the diy graphic designs of the time are admired today.

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Programme 8: Punx Not Dead:

We look at some of the bands that were sniffed at by the punk elders for being cartoon-like; bands like Charlie Harper’s UK Subs, Sham 69, The Ruts, The Jam - but who dominated the late ’70s charts, as well as the different routes bands took as punk began to splinter.

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Programme 9: Independents Days:

The post-punk period of ‘79 - ‘82 was a time when the provinces really did rise up and challenge the metropolitan monopoly over music and attempt to complete punk’s apparently failed musical revolution. Labels like Manchester’s Factory, Glasgow’s Postcard and London’s Rough Trade and Mute evolved during this time and took the means of production back from the multinationals. We look at some of the key players from this period.

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Programme 10: California Uber Alles:

We look at how throughout the ’80s and ’90s, punk continued to influence music-making globally, but nowhere more so than America, through multi-million selling bands like Green Day and Offspring to the punk in contemporary acts from The Strokes to Limp Bizkit; The White Stripes to Blink 182.

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Lesbian Short Films (2005)

Wednesday 1 April 2009

A WOMAN REPORTED, directed by Chris J. Russo (5 mins., USA). Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival.
Moira Kelly (The West Wing, One Tree Hill) stars in this gripping thriller about a woman's determination to escape a hate crime and return to the loving arms of her girlfriend. (Inspired by the Ambrose Bierce short story An Incident At Owl Creek Bridge.)
DANI AND ALICE, directed by Roberta Marie Munroe (12 mins., USA/Canada).
Yolanda Ross (Stranger Inside, Shortbus) stars in this powerful, high-gloss indictment of lesbian domestic violence. WARNING: This film contains scenes of graphic violence.
FROZEN SMILE, directed by Silas Howard (7 mins., USA).
From By Hook or By Crook, Exactly Like You writer-director Silas Howard, this candy-colored comedy serves up a quirky portrait of a butch and her crazy family!
EVERYTHING GOOD, directed by Elizabeth McCarthy (17 mins., USA). Audience Award: Best Short, Fire Island Film Festival
A woman takes a risk and orders a call girl to fulfill her perfect lesbian sex fantasy in this crowd-pleasing bittersweet comedy.
SAINT HENRY, directed by Abigail Severance (19 mins., USA).
Ashleigh Ann Wood (Bloodknot) stars as a girl named Henry who enlists her gay best pal (Max Van Ville, The Standard) to help search for her father in this moody and gorgeously produced drama.
BLOW, directed by Marie Craven (7 mins., Australia).
This glossy Aussie short is the sweetest schoolgirl crush movie you've ever seen.
TRANSIT, directed by Kerry Weldon (4 mins., USA).
Enjoy the simple pleasures of lesbian cruising, subway style!
HALF LAUGHING, directed by Michelle Ehlen (12 mins., USA).
You'll laugh, you'll cry. It takes a lot of courage for a butch lesbian to face her mother's homophobia on a trip home for Grandpa's funeral.
TINA PAULINA: LIVING ON HOPE STREET, directed by Barbara Green and Michelle Boyaner (10 mins., USA).
A riveting and inspirational documentary portrait of a lesbian living on the streets of downtown Los Angeles.
THE BLACK PLUM, directed by Meredyth Wilson (15 mins., USA).
A poignant, evocative fantasy about a young tomboy's journey away from her restrictive home. Stars Kip Pardue (Loggerheads, Thirteen, But I'm a Cheerleader).



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Short Film 06: 10 minuta (aka: 10 minutes) (2002)

How many different things can happen for only 10 Minutes. The film won the award for the best European short film in 2002.

This short film, as its title indicates lasts only 10 minutes, but it tells a much longer story which unravels only in our imagination upon seeing the end of the film. While 10 minutes in someone’s life mean nothing, they can be fatal in another: a boy and his loving family, tragedy in a war-torn city, death and destruction. All in just ten minutes. The film follows two simultaneous story lines: one set in Rome, and one in Sarajevo, in 1994, the worst time of the war in Bosnia. Although the Rome part was not filmed on the original location, that does not take away anything from the quality of the film, it was just a symbolic element anyway. Cast is great, story is very compact and well written, direction dynamic and precise. There is nothing out of place in the film: well structured, stripped of false pathos, realistic, it is very straight forward. In other words, this is a jewel of a film, and it was not by chance that it won the award for the best European short film in 2002. 10 minutes for me is definitely one of the most moving and powerful films about wartime Sarajevo. Behind the scene: I read that the director Ahmed Imamovic, in search of Japanese for the role of the tourist, had to go to the Japanese Embassy in Sarajevo and ask one of the staff to perform in the film. Luckily for the director, the Embassy allowed one of their employees to star in the film.

The story tells how SERBS have killed civils, old people and children!

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Short Film 05: Ilha das Flores (1989)

Best Short Film at the 17th Gramado Festival, 1989.
Silver Bear for a Short Film at the 40th Berlin Festival, 1990.
Air France award to the best Brazilian short film of the year, 1990.
Margarida de Prata (CNBB), best Brazilian short film of the year, 1990.
Special Jury Award and Best Popular Jury Film Clermont-Ferrand Festival, France, 1991.
"Blue Ribbon Award" at the American Film and Video festival, New York, 1991.
Best Film, No-budget Kurzfilmfestival, Hamburg, Germany, 1991.


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Short Film 04: Das Rad (Eng:Rocks) (2003)

Das Rad (English title: Rocks) is a German animated film written and directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger. It was produced using a mixture of stop motion, puppetry, and CGI animation. The film tracks a hillside from ancient times through the present and into the future, usually moving through time at high speed (so that buildings appear and disappear in an instant) but occasionally switching to real time and showing the inhabitants and objects in motion in their day-to-day existence. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003. And it won several other awards in respectable festivals like the Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Sweden Fantastic Film Festival, and the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival. It was produced by the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany.Das Rad (English title: Rocks) is a German animated film written and directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger. It was produced using a mixture of stop motion, puppetry, and CGI animation. The film tracks a hillside from ancient times through the present and into the future, usually moving through time at high speed (so that buildings appear and disappear in an instant) but occasionally switching to real time and showing the inhabitants and objects in motion in their day-to-day existence. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003. And it won several other awards in respectable festivals like the Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Sweden Fantastic Film Festival, and the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival. It was produced by the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Short Film 03: Peter and the Wolf (2006)

Peter & the Wolf (Polish: Piotrus i wilk, also known as Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf) is a short Polish-British-Norwegian model animation film released in 2006. It was written and directed by Suzie Templeton, made in Se-ma-for Studios in L�dz, and has been shown both in cinemas and with live musical accompaniment.

Short Film 02: Little Terrorist (2005)

Jamal, a 10-year-old Pakistani Muslim, mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan and finds an unusual ally in a Hindu Brahmin, Bhola. Indian soldiers descend on Bhola's village searching for the so-called terrorist who crossed over. Bhola's neice, Rani, insists they can't let a Muslim into their Hindu home. With Bhola and Rani grappling with the consequences of harboring a Pakistani and their deep-set prejudice against Muslims, Jamal's only hope is the humanity shared by a people separated by artificial boundaries a long time ago.

Since its world premiere in September 2004, the film has been invited to 103 film festivals and has won awards in fourteen of them. Chief among them was the nomination for Academy Awards, USA in the Best Live action short films category. It was also nominated for the best short film award in the European Film Awards.

It went on to win the audience award in the Almerнa International Short Film Festival, the UIP Ghent Award for European Short Films in the Flanders International Film Festival, the grand prize in the Manhattan Short Films festival and the first prize in the Short Films category in the Montrйal World Film Festival.

The movie was officially mentioned and selected in various other competitions. It also won an honourable mention by BAFTA LA. It is the first Indian short film to get a theatrical release in India.

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Short Film 01: Franz Kafka (1991)

I will share lots of awarded short films with you. Begining with Piotr Dumala's film: Franz Kafka.

In Franz Kafka, Dumala shows us scenes from Kafka's life, from youth, through the ripening of his creative genius to his eventual isolation. Taking Kafka's diaries, letters and novels themselves as its source, the film includes documentary material - from photos taken by Kafka between 1883 and 1924 to images of Prague at the turn of the century.

Piotr Dumala was born in Poland and studied sculpture and animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His award-winning animated ?lms include Lagodna (Gentle Spirit, 1985), Nerwowe zycie kosmosu (Nervous Life of the Universe, 1986), Sciany (Walls, 1987), Wolnosc nogi (Freedom of the Leg, 1988), and Franz Kafka (1990).

Dumala's films have won multiple awards. Lagodna was winner of the Golden Ducat at the International Film Festival in Mannheim, Germany, in 1985, and received an award for the Best Animated Film at the International Short Film Festival in Toures, France. Dumala received a Mister Linea Award at the Treviso International Animation Festival for his 24 episodes of the series Nerwowe zycie, and, in 1998, Sciany received the Grand Prix at the International Short Film Festival in Krakow, Poland, and Special Jury Award at the International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France. In 1992, Franz Kafka received the Grand Prix at the 10th International Animation Film Festival in Zagreb, Best Animated Film at the International Film Festival in Madrid, Grand Prix at the International Animated Film Festival in Espinho, and Best Cartoon Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.

Dumala's most recent piece is an adaptation of Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment (Zbrodnia i kara) which premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September 2000 and received the prize for Best Design at that festival. In 2001, Crime and Punishment was awarded the Public Prize at the Summer Film Festival in Kazimierz, Poland, and at the International Animation Film Festival in Espinho. In 2003 Dumala was awarded a Luna de Valencia at the Valencia Film Festival for his lifetime achievement in animation. He received the Albin Brunovski Prize in Uherske Hradiste for his artistic creativity in the art of animation, and a Grande FeFe Award at the FeFe Festival in Warsaw for his artistic independence in the field of animation. Dumala has created four MTV idents: Charlatan won the Broadcast Design Gold Award in Orlando, Florida, in 1994, and was a finalist in the New York festivals. Kafka Meets Dostoyevski received an International Broadcast Design Gold Award in 1996.

In addition, Dumala has made commercials and TV trailers; a short public service announcement for Amnesty International; and a ten-second sequence created for the Absolut Vodka website showcasing independent animation. He teaches animation at the Film, Television and Drama School in Lodz, Poland; is a guest professor at the Animation House at Konstfack in Eksj?, Sweden; and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He is involved in writing and journalistic activities, and published Razor Game (Male, 2000), a collection of short stories. He also creates graphics, paintings, illustrations and poster designs. He is currently working on his new film The Forest.

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