Branchage Festival, 25-28th September 2008, Jersey.

Director: Various
Year: Various
Duration: 106 min
Country: Various

The London Short Film Festival has been running since 2004. Founded as the Halloween Short Film Festival by Philip Ilson and Kate Taylor off the back of regular screenings and music events that the Halloween Society had been organising, it was a chance for Philip and Kate to focus on bringing the short films alongside music that they liked into a single annual Festival. The Festival reflected their tastes, in filmmakers that they rated and short films that didn’t fit safe parameters. Auteur run, the Festival has become quirky, uncompromising and edgy. January 2008 saw a re-branding to the London Short Film Festival, and this selection is taken from the first five Festivals – films that are unexpected, take chances, don’t play by the rules, covering all bases, from lo-budget quirkiness to glossy special effects, from animation to documentary, from filmmaker experiments to confidence in ideas. Beware the projector with teeth! www.a-to-m.com/lsff

GET GOOD (Francois & Rozi Plain, 10 min)
SHELL (Scott Graham, 20 min)
A STORM AND SOME SNOW (Simon Ellis, 2 min)
THE ELECTRIC BULL RIDING CONTEST (Ben Slotover, 5 min)
STOLEN SORROW (Jane Porter, 14 min)
THE EEL (Dominic Hailstone, 7 min)
6.6.04 (Simon Hook, 8 min)
GUY 101 (Ian Gouldstone, 10 min)
MOUTH TO ANUS (Adam Lieber, 1 min)
SHAME (Tom Geens, 3 min)
I WANT TO BE A SECRETARY (Sarah Wood, 14 min)
GEOFF WORLD DESTROYER (Phil Hall, 2 min)
YEAH YEAH YEAH (Marcal Fores, 10 min)