Experimental Short | Experimental Film Ea

2022 NOMINATIONS

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

Vendor Beast

dir. Finn Rabbitt Dove

Nominated for Best Experimental Film

Vendor Beast is a short film that explores cross species relationships, nostalgia and loss, in a world of increasingly manufactured landscapes. Footage of children, almost in flight, with captive polar bears becomes a dystopian analogy of the 1982 animation, The Snowman.
Synonymous with climate change campaigns, the polar bear has become a celebrity, presented behind glass like snacks in a vending machine, for us to live out our fantasies; can’t we see that this snowman has already melted?

Yorkshire Dirt

dir. Ed Carr

Nominated for Best Experimental Film & Best Animated Film

YORKSHIRE DIRT is an animation printed entirely on soil using a new process innovated by the artist. The film is an experimental collage of rural culture in relation to animals, and how it feeds into the local psyche. Through printing directly onto the soil, the film shows how our relationship to the nonhuman world impacts our environment and the climate crisis - resulting in soil exhaustion. It is also a commentary on how our identity is embedded in the earth, but is spoiled by our violent systems.

Boogie Stomp Pink

dir. Stuart Pound

Nominated for Best Experimental Film

A Boogie dance performed by William & Maeva was downloaded from the internet and vertical sections taken from each frame arranged into 24 panels to show pattern and movement across each second.

So Long (We Dreamt of This)

dir. Lewis Heriz

Nominated for Best Experimental Film

In a world where human consciousness is fused with the network, someone tries to tend to their plants. Persistent thoughts draw them into an alienating place with the promise of constant connection.

Robyn

dir. AUTOJEKTOR

Nominated for Best Experimental Film

Pushing facial recognition software to its breaking point as autonomy and algorithm fight over the possession of identity.

EROSION - Inter-Change of State

dir. Julian Hand

Nominated for Best Experimental Film

A beautiful yet ruthless inter-change of state. Relentless coastal erosion has seen many metres of land lost to the North Sea’s ravages. With the capacity to both reveal and remove, its sustained attack shapes and creates unique landscapes of which to investigate. But at a cost, as the land recedes with it homes and communities disappear. The film records the physical traces of erosion upon the coastline using the photographic nature of cine film. Through experimentation with the mediums susceptibility to external forces such as the sea, weathering and physical corruption by hand, it constructs an experience of the landscape exposing the eternal conflict between land and sea.