CommissionED FILMS
2008 Phoenix Media Bursary films
showing at the Bursary Screening
Tom Austin - Man-Cub
The death of an old woman opens up a can of worms for the reticent Frank.
With the help of a friendly grave-digger, he sets out to bury the past
and the hatchet, and to finally move on with his life.
David Salas - The Simple Lies Experiment
The Simple Lies Experiment is a 21st century noir - and the opening sequence of an interactive film that anyone can add to, change and take control of. Character is dictated by costume and anyone with an internet connection can re-edit the material or shoot new scenes to take the story forward.
"The creative process is no longer contained within an individual skull" - William Gibson.
Vicky Smith - The Surrogates
Images of actors are scratched directly from found 16mm film into clear leader and cut to a soundtrack of classics from sound effects libraries. Lacking substance and taken out of context their gestures and actions become a charade. This is a meditation on how readily people rely on cues proposed by the dominant media. With its industry reputation of ‘cheating’, the notion of copying lies at the heart of both the rotoscope method and the borrowed sounds and actions of this project.
Martin Lejeune - Untitled Dystopia
A pre-apocalyptic comedy about an artist and her friend at the worlds end...
Andrew Oxley - Making the Difference
What is life without the unadulterated pleasure of a slice of cake to break up the day?
Stop, sit back and relax with six members of our fine nation as they enjoy a cup of tea and a slice of their favourite.
Toby DeBurgh - Distraction
'Distraction' tells the story of a night in the life of an insomniac named Ben, who is forced to listen to an increasingly violent argument coming through his bedroom wall.
Ashley Thorpe - The Screaming Skull (animation)
Spencer Penraddon returns from the 1st world war to his ancestral home.
His sister has succumbed to the blight that has cursed the family since the hall was erected. And symbol of this curse is 'the Screaming Skull'.
None have dared move it for fear of the terrors it will unleash. Spencer however wished to be free of the house and its ghosts. But the ghosts of Penraddon hall are not ready to be put to rest... That night, as Spencer walks the halls labyrinthine corridors, he is assaulted by horrors; spectres of the past...and a grim realisation of his own fate.
With kind support from Exeter City Council.