Film Archive

Competition for the Audience Award 2022
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A Bunch of Amateurs
Kim Hopkins
Dwindling membership, a crumbling club house, penniless coffers: The “Bradford Movie Makers” have seen better days. The funny and touching portrait of a band of film buffs.
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A Bunch of Amateurs

A Bunch of Amateurs
Kim Hopkins
Competition for the Audience Award 2022
Documentary Film
UK
2022
95 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

Dwindling membership, a crumbling club house, penniless coffers: The “Bradford Movie Makers” have seen better days. The active club members, most of them fairly advanced in years, sit there, basking in blissful memories and not mincing their words when they pick at the others’ film ideas over multiple cups of tea. Cineastes have met here every Monday since 1932 and can be proud of a ninety-year history including countless amateur films of all genres.

The “club”, as insiders call it, is a typical British working class film club: watching films together on a regular basis and spending every free minute on elaborate shoots including stunt riders and green screens. But the old veterans are beginning to get frail, the occasional death must be mourned. And then the pandemic comes on top of all this, darkening the only bright spot of the week. But it also brings unexpected surprises … Kim Hopkins manages the feat, despite a number of tragic-sad occasions, of avoiding the tear-jerker trap and gives us equally astonishing and funny insights into this pastime that’s far more than just a hobby. This quiet, funny and touching portrait of a band of film buffs – male and female – pays tribute to the need we all have to spend time together.
Lina Dinkla

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Director
Kim Hopkins
Cinematographer
Kim Hopkins
Editor
Leah Marino
Producer
Margareta Szabo, Kim Hopkins
Sound
Margareta Szabo
Score
Terence Dunn
World Sales
Jenny Bohnhoff
Animation Night 2023
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A Moment’s Reverie
Tess Martin
A train leaves the station, carrying a person whose thoughts begin to drift while reading a book. A surreal journey through memory fragments, sounds and textures begins.

UK

UK
2007
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A Moment’s Reverie

A Moment’s Reverie
Tess Martin
Animation Night 2023
Animated Film
UK
2007
10 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

A train journey begins. On board is a reader whose thoughts begin to move. The letters change and flow from the pages of the book, carrying us into a world of memories and associations. We meet the letters again: swimming in a tea cup. Shot, they bleed to death on a sheet of paper and at last evaporate into the night sky.

Franka Sachse

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Director
Tess Martin
Animation
Tess Martin
Re-Visions 2020
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Achilles
Barry Purves
Trench warfare around Troy, the heroes are well-known. This adaptation of a classical myth, inspired by antique designs, dares to show explicit images for adults.

UK

UK
1995
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Achilles

Achilles
Barry Purves
Re-Visions 2020
Animated Film
UK
1995
11 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

The winner of the first golden “Animation Dove”: nine years of war between Greeks and Trojans have gone past. The impulsive Patroclus, comrade in arms and bed mate of the rather battle-weary Achilles, thinks that victory can be achieved by other means. The tragedy takes its course – just as it was passed down in the classical myths but supplemented by what they left unspoken.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Barry Purves
Script
Barry Purves
Editor
Leo Casserley
Producer
Glenn Holberton
Score
Nigel Hess
Animation
Barry Purves
Production Company
Channel Four, Bare Boards Productions
Animation Perspectives 2023
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Any Instant Whatever
Michelle Brand
A person at a table. Time makes its usual rounds – until there is a hiccup. Normality slips. The table becomes a wild combination of constantly changing perspectives.
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Any Instant Whatever

Any Instant Whatever
Michelle Brand
Animation Perspectives 2023
Animated Film
UK
2019
5 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A person sits at a plain table. Time makes its usual rounds – until there is a hiccup. Moments fall into each other, angles of vision diverge, normality slips. The table becomes an unmanageable combination of constantly changing perspectives. The troubled person is transformed into a distorted temporal body. The world atomises itself in basic shapes and colours.

André Eckardt

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Director
Michelle Brand
Producer
RCA London
Sound Design
Michelle Brand
Animation
Michelle Brand
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Atomu

Atomu
Shariffa Ali, Yetunde Dada
Extended Reality 2021
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France,
Kenya,
USA,
UK
2020
12 minutes
English

In the mythology of the Kikuyu community the Mugumo, the Kenyan fig tree, represents transformation and rebirth. This multiplayer VR experience invites us to witness a sacred ritual: Dancing around the Mugumo can turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man. We follow Waicici, a genderless person, in the quest for the most honest version of themselves.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Antoine Cayrol, Steve Jelly
Co-Producer
Steve Jelly, Arnaud Colinart, Opeyemi Olukemi, Rafael Pavon, Annick Jakobowicz, Simon Windsor
Production Company
POV Spark, France Télévisions, Dimension, Atlas V
Choreographer
Stephen Buescher
Key Collaborator
Andrew Orkin, Banna Dasta, Toby Coffey, Steve Jelly, Simon Windsor, Akash Kushwaha, Annick Jakobowicz, Stephen Buescher, Opeyemi Olukemi, Arnaud Colinart, Rafael Pavon, Antoine Cayrol, Derren Sinnott
Director
Shariffa Ali, Yetunde Dada