As their medical exams draw closer, Seb and Niamh must confront their issues in the university library through books, bickering, and… brownies? A story of friendship, pain, and getting on the right path. ‘Want/Need’ explores two best friends’ different struggles during their degrees.
This short poetry film contains drawings of Butlins holiday camp in Minehead, U.K that I made whilst on holiday there in 1990 and poetry that I wrote in 2022. The sentimentality and nostalgia within the drawings of Butlins are ripped apart by poetry that discusses how queer people have been silenced in the past.
Mrs El Araby is a short experimental film that explores the restricted space within which Arab women are allowed to exist in Western Media.
Felt Right Then, Feels Right Now depicts the childhood memory of Blyth trying on his father’s boxers at age eight, before leaving for Brownies still wearing them under his uniform. This memory is one of many that have contributed to Blyth understanding that his gender identity did not align with the sex he was assigned at birth, leading to the artist coming out as transgender at eighteen. The artist intends for this to be the first of many animations in a series titled Defining Moments of a Trans Experience, which will portray Blyth’s experiences pre and post transitioning from female to male that contribute to his continued understanding of the fluidity of gender.
It’s the last ninety seconds on Earth. Meteorites are falling towards the planet’s surface, and two best friends, Miles and Owen, are watching from Miles’ bedroom window. As the end of their lives quickly approaches, Miles ponders on whether or not to tell Owen that he loves him before it’s too late.
With each moment, the protagonist feels irritated or underwhelmed by something in her environment. She makes adjustments in order to create a shift and regain a sense of contentment. The external and the internal play out simultaneously offering the spectator a choice of where to look.
Love Has No Label is a portrait series about real queer identities that navigate the quest to be accepted and find love in a world of boxes and stereotypes. One main film submitted in four episodes that questions and challenges what has been taught as ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ through self-expression and power. The concept developed and produced by Christian Ruess, Founder of Container Love, and Ben Galster, Film Director, is a short that gets under your skin out of honest power expression.
An LGBTQ+ film centred around 6 individuals navigating the coming out process, Oliver coming out to his parents as gay, Charlotte coming out to her colleague as asexual, and Adam and Eve navigating gender inside the subconcious of a gender fluid person.
A life-changing event interrupts the happy life Kadi and Stella built in London. Can their love win against their harsh reality?
