New British Shorts

In this combined programme

• Miss Queencake

  @ Miss Queencake has an artificial style while dream and reality seem to mingle in the film. Holiday herself calls her film a tragi-comic ‘boat…

• Mad bad mortal beings

  The film is a portrayal of the stream of memory of Cait, a girl who tries to assimilate the sadness of a broken relationship. Her…

• Floating

  One of the most extreme and successful examples of the ‘new directors’ film. A surrealistic burlesque which in its exuberant insanity seems like a radical…

• Lady Lazarus

  The film comprises a stream of symbolic, experimental images. On the soundtrack, Sylvia Plath is reading her Lady Lazarus. This makes the film more literary…