Central Saint Martins Online Film Screening - Online Programme

INSIDE

An introspective look into the conflict faced by one's creative psyche and the inner turmoil encountered as a result of the question - what is real and what is merely a figment of our own imagination?

A contemplative exploration of the living conscious and creative subconscious, Inside delves into the creative psyche and its symbolism within mythology through a young woman’s altered consciousness. Shifting between three contrasting spaces within reality and its altered state, she begins to question what is real and what is merely a figment of her imagination. Reflecting upon the composition of Inside Colour by Deborah Pritchard, Inside is a poetic film traversing the use of light and colour as symbolism within music, filmography, and animation.

Created by: Kira Copland, Tom Fras and Grace Hall
Music: Inside Colour by Deborah Pritchard

LOST

Lost is a piece of film work discussing the confusion and lost feeling of Chinese international students who study and live in Western countries. The film adapts dadaism and surrealist aesthetics, combined with absurd editing and film cutting, in order to demonstrate the inner mind of the main character, who represent all the people who lost in a double culture world. 

In the beginning, we use two different kinds of architecture, one is Nanjing Baoli Theatre, the other is a traditional Chinese-style street called Fuzi Temple. The windows on Baoli Theatre show the audience a modern feeling. Then the camera moves to lanterns, which suddenly transform to a Chinese atmosphere. The character holds lanterns, she looks easy here. Afterwards, moving to a dark space, only the character and the screen shine, which represents the character moving to Western culture. She tries to assimilate into the surrounding environment, but she cannot fit into the surroundings. Next she tries to find herself somewhere. She arrives in a shopping mall, which is full of goods there. She is trapped in consumerism, in a world of sensual pleasures. However, she finds an oil painting, which is Girl With A Pearl Earring. She finds the painting resonates with her. She finds the reason why she cannot get into a Western environment. She tries to reach the painting. Finally, she understands that she cannot find a comfortable place in Western culture, and she tries to use her own way to combine these two cultural backgrounds. 

Created by: Zhiqing Liu and Xinyi (Nico) Yao
Music: Es by Dai Fujikura

THE PARABLE

The music inspires in us a deep contemplation and sense of the rhythms of life in the universe. The cyclical repetition within it evokes a sense of the power of ritual which uses repeated intentional movements to induce a trance state that connects one deeply with the heart and at the same time is capable of summoning actual Spirits.

By uploading a digital scan of a human body into the work we believe that the spirit of that body is embodied in the image and you can feel it responding to the music. 

Furthermore, the sacred gestures of a being in ritual dance is able to conjure Spirit beings directly from a talismanic object held against their heart. Aided and abetted by the Spirits that inhabit the sacred landscape around the dancer, these unseen ethereal life forms can be captured and then represented digitally. This short film, which accompanies Mark Bowden’s Parable evidences this: by uploading a photogrammetric human body in trance state into a digitally sacred landscape, a Neolithic stone-circle on Dartmoor, we co-create with the music a space for ‘seeing the unseen’, what a shaman would call the spirit world made corporeal.

Created by: Shania Selvendran and Kivare Foster
Music: Parable by Mark Bowden

BROTHERLY LOVE

Brotherly Love is based on the track Hyperlude IV by the composer Francisco Coll. The film follows afight between two friends and its aftermath.

Created by: Maria Bernal, Sophie Goodall and Rebant Ruparell
Music: Hyperlude IV by Francisco Coll

FADED

The film follows a boy in his late teens as he navigates the journey of growing up. There is a clear baggage that he holds close to him, as is made clear through his hallucinations and dreamlike visions. There is a female character that is shown to recur throughout the film. She represents a past love/friend that is no longer present in his life. Whilst leaving it intentionally open to interpretation, the presence of past trauma is clear. In a world full of negative influences, he takes to drugs and alcohol to numb whatever pain and issues he has suppressed within. Continuing with the idea of seclusion and isolation that has been discussed earlier, he is shown in scenes predominantly alone; The loneliness that he feels, and the almost exile from society in which he perpetuates himself.

Created by: Olivia Pittas and Isaac Irvine 
Music: Kinesphere by Samantha Fernando

THE EQUILIBRISTS

A chaotic cabaret film directly inspired by the music composed by Anna Meredith, the film focuses on the subject of balance by sensationalising and anthropomorphising the feeling of balance itself, the visuals exploring dualities, to represent the constant flux between balance and imbalance of conscience. Through the contradictory and excitable colours of blue and yellow, the array of footage capturing everyday things making a spectacle of the mundane, and the overlay of the balancing act performers themselves, The Equilibrists provokes the viewer's attention to distraction emulating the teeter-totter of human experience and the infinite juggle of living.

Created by: Jenna Coombs, Natasha Gatward and Susannah Jade Gaffney
Music: Axeman by Anna Meredith