FILM FROM SCRATCH SCREENING
Supported by Arts Council of Wales, Gritty Realism held animation workshops across Wales at, Chapter Arts Centre, Riverside Community Centre and the Aber Valley and created a film combining amateur cine clips and scratched animation to highlight the work of the National Screen and Sound Archive celebrating the history of film in Wales and preserving film for future generations.
See this fantastic collaborative film for the first time on the big screen at Chapter Arts Centre.
To accompany the collaborative scratch film, Cardiff Animation Festival has put together a programme of animated short films that use the same scratch technique. From abstract colourful worlds to informative documentaries the programme showcases how filmmakers use this technique to create beautiful stories and animation on film.
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4:3
Dir. Ross Hogg | UK | 5 mins
Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole.
SOMETHING MORE
Dir. Mary Martins | UK | 5 mins
An exploration of the cause of youth violence and the impact of knife crime in London seen through the eyes of a mother raising her 8 year-old son in London.
SILO
Dir. Gina Kamentsky | USA | 2 mins
A trip over, under, around an old Grain Silo. A 70mm film explosion!
PIN AND TUMBLER
Dir. Patrick Connelly | USA | 3 mins
16mm scratch film exploring the shape, texture, and movement of locks and keys.
SECOND SIGHT
Dir. Stephanie Maxwell, Peter Byrne | USA | 5 mins
This work presents a passage through a pist in which perception is ultimately clarified and sharpened rather than obscured.
THE PEACOCK IN THE ROOM
Dir. Sanjana Chandrasekhar | UK | 3 mins
An intergenerational film that traverses the relationship between a mother and daughter, during challenging times. As one of them struggles to fight her hallucinatory demons, another attempts to embrace her world.
INTERSEXTION
Dir. Richard Reeves | Canada | 4 mins
two abstract energies fall in love, unite as one then disappear into a vanishing point.
HAVING A BALL IN SWANSEA
Dir. Gerald Conn | UK | 11 mins
A film made in a Swansea shopping centre celebrating a day and a night in the city by scratching and drawing directly onto 35mm celluloid film.
FILM FROM SCRATCH
Dir. Gerald Conn | UK | 6 mins
A film combining amateur cine clips and scratched animation to highlight the work of the National Screen and Sound Archive celebrating the history of film in Wales and preserving film for future generations.