Glenn Paton’s H Positive has recently gone live! ”If you had a prolonged terminal illness and money was no object, would you manipulate euthanasia so that you could die on your own terms? This story examines how the protagonist Mark uses his wealth to help create a euthanasia roller coaster. A roller coaster so powerful, it causes cerebral hypoxia, thus suffocating your brain ensuring a (…) Continue Reading »

"If money was no object, would you manipulate euthanasia so that you could die on your own terms?" Glenn Paton’s visually impressive H Positive is screening at Clermont-Ferrand 2016. Where did the idea come from? I went to an art exhibition and I saw a small A2 image of a roller coaster called ’the death coaster’ created by Julijonas Urbonas. I thought that it would be a great starting (…) Continue Reading »

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Grand Prize Las Cosas Simples (Les choses simples/Simple Things) Alvaro Anguita - Chili - 2015 - Fiction - 26’ Jury Prize Die Badewanne (La baignoire/Bathtub) Tim Ellrich - Austria, Germany - 2015 - Fiction - 12’ Special mentions - International Jury Uzak M?... (Lointain...) Leyla Toprak - Turkey - 2015 - Documentary - 16’ Panorama Virginia Urreiztieta - (…) Continue Reading »

We met up with Mark Chapman, whose film Carmex is screening at this year’s Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, as part of the Lab selection. Camrex is a cinematic and photographic project exploring the stories of residents at the notorious Camrex House hostel in Sunderland. You were working on a drama in the area, when the idea to film Camrex came about. What sparked your interest ? I was (…) Continue Reading »

Armand Lameloise, réalisateur de Je ne suis pas un cygne et Chabname Zariab, réalisatrice de Au bruit des clochettes, échangent autour des points communs et des différences entre leurs films. Lire la suite »

Another year, another Clermont Fest, wish assorted goodies, freebies, queues and lunch vouchers. Not that they’re needed to sway us. It’s a strong selection, many hits and few misses. We’ll have updates and coverage coming up, but first, we’re (…) Continue Reading »

Homme Less is a feature documentary directed by Thomas Wirthensohn, who follows the life of the charismatic and seemingly successful Mark Reay as he goes about his day-to-day activities in the Biggest of Apples. This is a man who has all the makings of your typical downtown success story, with his stylish wardrobe, clean shave and handsome haircut and face. The documentary is well (…) Continue Reading »

A documentary about an art collector who in the 1920s considered herself destitute with $450,000 in her bank account, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict might sound a bit vapid, but even a passing interest in artists of the 20th century is reason enough to become acquainted with someone who met the best, bought the best and slept with the best. Derided throughout her career for being a New York (…) Continue Reading »

The ironically-titled Entertainment plays hard on the expectation that a cinema audience requires something redeeming in its anti-heroes. The film is an extension of Greg Turkington’s stand-up-as-performance-art project ’Neil Hamburger’, a greasy peddler of puerile one-liners and vile, hateful patter (Turkington co-wrote the screenplay with Tim Heidecker and director Rick Alverson). In (…) Continue Reading »

Between 1999 and the year 2000, Agnès Varda took a digital camera around France filming gleaners – “glaner,” Varda’s voiceover says over shots of the encyclopaedia entry, “to gather after the harvest.” The original gleaners, made famous in rustic paintings of the 19th century, gathered left-over corn; in Varda’s film we meet the specialist gatherers of unwanted potatoes, grapes, furniture, (…) Continue Reading »