Talent Spotting

Talent Spotting

• It’s Not Unusual

  • main programme short

• The Box

  Tilda Swinton plays an other-wordly traveller experiencing the madness of modern urban living. With rhythmic stop-motion photography and compelling music by Orbital, this is a striking début by two new film-makers.

  • main programme short

• Fork in the Road

  Three hoodlums prepare to execute a hostage. Hours later some children find the signs of their activity. Both tense and grimly humorous, Barrie White’s latest short was made for the BFI’s New Directors scheme.

  • main programme short

• The Wind of Changes

  Impressive animation about the life of musician Balanescu under Romanian Communism.

  • main programme short

• Lounge

  A choreographer’s film in which Suburbia is set ablaze with colour and movement. Commissioned by the Arts Council.

  • main programme short

• Small Deaths

  A reflective triptych of passionless moments during one girl’s adolescence in Glasgow. Cinematographer Lynne Ramsay’s powerful graduation film for the National Film & Television School won the Critics’ Prize for best short at last year’s Cannes festival.

  • main programme short

• Skin

  • main programme short

• Just

  A terrible enigma plagues pedestrians. A surreal sensibility and preoccupation with sound characterises the acclaimed work of Jamie Thraves, a graduate of the Royal College of Art and previously one of the British Film Institute’s New Directors.

  • exploding cinema