Channel 2

Playful sketches and disturbing visions.

Dir: Various, 75 mins approx.

Playful sketches and disturbing visions, starting with two films from the Italian collective Flatform which use humour and repetition to magnify moments in time. The unearthly images in Eric Dyer’s The Bellows March come from a series of elaborate zoetropes built with a 3-D printer, while I.D. is Sam Firth’s life-story in 90 seconds of passport photos and LoopLoop (dir: Patrick Bergeron) takes a brief sequence shot from a train in Hanoi and slices it up into a hypnotic panorama. A Film From My Parish - 6 Farms (dir: Tony Donoghue) is a deft portrait of six farmers in County Tipperary, made with 2 stills cameras, a mini-disc recorder, a tripod and a bicycle. Memotech (dir: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir) is a dance film shot in the Faroe Islands which feels like a horror movie, and in A Letter to Uncle Boonmee Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul traces cycles of repression and reincarnation in the country’s rural north-east.

Full programme:

Sunday 6th April (dir: Flatform, 5 minutes)

57.600 Seconds of Invisible Night and Light (dir: Flatform, 5 mins)

The Bellows March (dir: Eric Dyer, 5 mins)

Looploop (dir: Patrick Bergeron, 4 mins)

Memotech (dir: Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir, 5 mins)

Strange Lights (dir: Joe King & Rosie Pedlow, 8 mins)

Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down (dir: Shana Moulton, 4 mins)

OOIOO: Sol (Goto Shoji, 3 mins)

I.D. (dir: Sam Firth, 2 mins)

A Film From My Parish: 6 Farms (dir: Tony Donoghue, 7 mins)

Letter to Uncle Boonmee (dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 17 mins)