Strawberry Shorts Film Festival 2008: Programme 1

Don’t be a bit part player all your life. Accept this invitation to become an xtra in the Arts Area of Strawberry Fair 2008.

A businessman is chanced through the streets of Cambridge by a hoody. But what horror awaits when the hood is remover?

Made as part of Long Road Sixth Form College Music Video Course.

A travelogue set in the Burning Man Festival in the USA, filled with colour, sunlight and excitement.

Robot friends go out on the town.

Made as part of Long Road Sixth Form College Music Video Course.

In 2009, the greatest electronic disaster mankind had ever seen caused worldwide panic as every electronic device, from computers to wristwatches to telephones crash.

With life support systems failing, planes stalling in the sky and traffic grinding to a halt, the world is literally falling apart. Amidst the chaos, a cloaked religious cult emerges from the English countryside claiming that the signs indicate the coming of the apocolypse, and encouraging the already rife mass-suicide.

The feature (for which our short film is merely a theatrical trailer) focuses on three young protagonists’ mission to restore sanity to a world gone mad whilst struggling against the ominous forces of an almost supernatural cult of nihilistic warriors.

Made as part of the Hills Road College media course.

Two backpackers stop the night at an innocent seeming hostel. But what horror lurks not far below the surface?

Three girls rock the mic right . . .

Made as part of Long Road Sixth Form College Music Video Course.

This film documents the creation of the Magnificent Revoluntionary Cycling Cinema and their first gig on the Art Trail of The Big Chill 2007.

A cartoon strip is brought to life with live action.

Made as part of Long Road Sixth Form College Music Video Course.

At the end of Strawberry Fair 2004 Pete UM plays one last tune when he encounters the lost kids.

This short film is about a man with Cancer; Frank Walkley in his last few months.

I spent 5 weeks interviewing and filming him; his deterioration is apparent.

He wanted to put across the importance of living and laughing to the end.

It was agreed that I would use mainly his laughter and the reasons why he had the cancer: drinking alcohol (in his mug!) and smoking. He also describes and gives us a sense of the tedium and closeness of death of living in a hospice.

The drone of the extractor fan was constant and seemed to get louder whilst sitting in the smoking room; this is why I intensified the sound

Hip hop styley video done by two hardcore Cambridge dudes.

Made as part of Long Road Sixth Form College Music Video Course.

A man wanders lost in a night shirt. What terrible secret does his mute shambling form conceal?

Made as part of the Hills Road College media course.

Phoenix is the tale of a young girl who becomes what every girl wants to be – famous. However, when you get that high up and anything seems possible, what happens if you begin to slip and slide?

A mockumentary that looks at the darker side of fame through humor. You’ll hate her so much that you’ll begin to love her.

We join the filmmaker as he has a shower and a shave in the bathroom.

An office worker smashes his laptop and walks out of office while shedding cloths, out of town into the country side and to the sea.

Made as part of Long Road Sixth Form College Music Video Course.

This video was shot in just one weekend (yes, all that animation) back in 2001, but has only just been digitally remastered and re-edited by me (colour correction to follow soon), as at the time it was shot and edited on borrowed gear!

The idea behind it was to take domestic objects and bring them to life by ‘choreographing’ them to one of my own tunes (called Brain Bug, after a random newspaper headline I saw at the time of writing it)!

Yes, I really did burn a hole in my kitchen floor during the making of this video, but no I didn’t care, because I moved out a couple of weeks after making this, and all that Lino got ripped up by builders anyway!

I tell you, I’m perfectly stone cold sober, honest…

A young girl find that life is more than a party when the morning comes.

Made as part of Long Road Sixth Form College Music Video Course.

A man is rejected by society at every turn. In the end the man is driven to his end.

What would you do in your back yard?

An in-depth look into violent video games and if they can in fact turn people violent like many people believe. Interviews with game testers, game sellers and parents of a child who plays violent video games along side animations of the Nintendo superstar Mario who helps with the narration and the flow of the documentary.

Made as part of the Film & Television Production course at the Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge

Its so useful that we will all have one soon.