The Strawberry Shorts Film Marquee @ Fordham Fest 2010: Programme 5

A sci-fi, teen-comedy musical about a lonely science geek, Andy McDandy, who builds himself a robot girlfriend to take to his high-school prom.

Improvisation open to interpretation!

Little Red RidingGown devising a cunning plan to foil the Kings Tax collecting henchmen. Cameo from Little Boy Blue.

First place winner from the London Bridge 48 hr film challenge July 2009 where the title and genre was chosen by judges.

Two head together but only one brain, yet Larry and Rachel are not the same.

A man is rejected by society at every turn.

In the end the man is driven to suicide.

Red catches her boyfriend, Mark, cheating on her.

She leaves the scene only to reappear on CCTV and seeming to threaten the relationship of Mark and his new love, Louise.

Red, Louise and Mark all seem to have dual identities causing an eerie existence and a catastrophic ending.

A nameless beast is loosed in room 101…

A hypnotic and abstract film about trying to capture nature and light in the camera.

In 1851, an old judge is philosophical about life and death.

Set in a secure unit for teenagers where everything is bespoke including the surveillance system.

Thirty-two CCTV cameras monitor every corridor and staircase.

This work is made using these cameras and shows a glimpse into the lives of the residents of Rainforest Walk who collaborate in the making of this film.

A young boy ponders the enigmatic and merciless nature of terminal illness, as he becomes an inadvertent witness to the grim demise of his father.

Strawberry Shorts NOTE:
This is an in-camera edited film shot on Super 8. Super 8 is a cine-film format, released by Eastman Kodak in 1965.

Once the Super 8 film is exposed, the image recorded on it cannot be changed because it is a photgraphic film and not a video tape. Damnation is an in-camera edited films, which means that the sequence of scenes that you see is exactly as it was exposed on the film…mistakes and all! The film was not edited after it was developed. Only the credits and sound were added later.

For more information on in-camera edited films and having a go yourself, check the awesome Straight 8.

And dont forget the brilliant Cambridge Super 8 International Film Festival, a Cambridge based film festival dedicated to the Super 8 film format.

A contemporary adaptation of Philip Larkin’s 1964 poem “Here”, the opening work of his Whitsun Weddings collection.

Behind a read from Sir Tom Courtenay, the film journeys through Hull and east Yorkshire, seeking the characters and landscapes that inspire Larkin nearly half a century ago.

Strawberry Shorts NOTE:
Strawberry Shorts would like to apologies for not originally crediting the producers (Classlane Media) of Here. This was solely the error of Strawberry Shorts.

A psych escapes, death ensues.

Documentary that looks at the effect of time on our families and memories.

Maggot sees the intensifying misanthropy of the human condition; that we are all doomed to our own personal craving for survival, no matter what our stature.

A girls last few moments.

A man finds himself trapped in a labyrinth of alleyways and must navigate his way to freedom.

A young heroine steps in and saves him from an Evil Cyclops, while an eye like object chases them along the alley.

A post apocalyptic tale of being lost in time and space . . .

Times are grim but for Hector, things are about to get ghastly.

A sinister contagion has overtaken Glasgow, turning people into dancing maniacs

Upset that her parents are fighting, Molly escapes into her own imaginary world with the help of her Grandpa’s Magical Greenhouse.