NEW SHORTS: WTF
Sunday, 24 January 2021
HAPPINESS - AN ALIEN CONCEPT, dir. Cheryl Bayliss
It wouldn’t be an LSFF without our annual smorgasbord of deranged cinematic oddities, dreamt up by some of short film’s most brilliant(-ly perverse) minds working today.
This year, expect mutant bacteria, Microsoft Paint, chicken-loving despots, Magic-8 balls, and a really very annoying horse.
Programmed by Philip Ilson. 77'
This programme contains gore, nudity and some generally disturbing content.
DADDY'S NOTE
Gavin Irvine
8'
2020
United Kingdom
After battling their consciences, two moronic drug dealers serve up to a politically connected, obnoxious public schoolboy.
WALNUT MEN
Tom Shennan
3'
2020
United Kingdom
A domestic argument unfolds when Jensy's boyfriend rolls home late and drunk and with a giant walnut for a head.
MERCURY'S RETROGRADE
Zohar Dvir
7'
2020
United Kingdom
A millennial is relying on her Magic 8 ball to make sense of a chaotic life. A satire about a never ending quest towards self realisation, self improvement, and life answers.
MODO CRASTICOT
Jérémie Guy-Béland
5'
2020
Canada
A content moderator works via her cell phone in a bar. While she moderates the darker corners of the web, she also needs to repel some annoying real life characters.
CRY BABY CRY
Rob Daglish
3'
2020
United Kingdom
A man cries at the butchers.
NOD. WINK. HORSE.
Ollie Magee
5'
2020
United Kingdom
A film behind a horse. Obscuring the narrative. Self sabotage.
WHARTON'S CHERRY JELLY
Francesco Piro
2'
2020
United Kingdom
In a fantastical uterine environment, we witness the birth of a weird creature whose life begins floating in a primordial soup and continues its development into a complex organism that hopes to become human.
HAPPINESS - AN ALIEN CONCEPT
Cheryl Bayliss
12'
2020
United Kingdom
An oddball couple desperate for fulfilment have their mundane existence invaded by an unexpected new arrival.
THE STORK
Andrea Niada
2'
2020
United Kingdom
Three babies wait for the stork to take them away.
EATING SPAGHETTI
Arthur Studholme
2'
2020
United Kingdom
Two men enjoying a bowl of spaghetti.
THISISHOWTHEWORLDENDS
Louise Fauroux
5'
2020
France
For a good amount of money, a company offers the chance to become part of a virtual reality to escape mid-pandemic Earth. We follow Ana, who decides to become digitalised alongside her identity, memories and friends.
THE CATALYST
Callum Angel
8'
2020
United Kingdom
A young man thrust into a strange journey.
MY FAVE EFFING SHOW
Emma McAndrew D'Souza
4'
2020
United Kingdom
A MS Paint fever dream of bingewatching trash online.
IN IT TOGETHER
Filip Tellander
5'
2020
Sweden
A poetic look at the violent dance between lovers entangled in an unhealthy relationship.
DIVISION SERIES
Ho Kwon Jim
6'
2020
South Korea
Prime Minister Abe goes into KFC to find them sold out. At the next table, presidents from various countries start playing cards to win the last chicken basket.