Block Information: Telling Tales

Short film programme

For your amazement and delight, we present to you Telling Tales, an audiovisual offering of genius and beauty - tall tale, fairy tale, fable, folklore, legend, morality play, myth, melodrama, docudrama, satire, send-up, romance - and much more besides! Each carefully selected film on this programme is unique in its presentation and perspective, but all have in common their grounding in good solid narrative...

Because it's not what you tell, it's the way that you tell it.

Featuring...

• CathARTic, dir. Ethan Canter
• Cheat Neutral, dir. Beth Stratford
• Film Eight, dir. Dan Gitsham
• Geologias, dir. Francesca Alaimo
• My Mum the Wrestler, dir. Mark Withers
• PR, dir. Maria Paraskepvopoulou
• Reduction, dir. Alistarir Ruff
• Scarlet, dir. Alex Gascoigne
• Small Steps, dir. Max Sobol & Tom Loughlin

Followed by a DJ set featuring diverse and eclectic music from Mike Knowlden.

About the Curator: Helen Davies

A self-confessed obsessive collector of the story well-told, after sitting on the shoulders of literary giants at the University of Oxford, Helen spent 6 months haunting the library at legendary Parisian bookstore Shakespeare & Company, picking up snatches from wandering poets. On her return, her attention turned to the big screen and she cut her festival teeth working for the Birds Eye View Film Festival 06 & 07. Helen is awestruck and inspired by the breadth of talent around today and is extremely proud to help provide a platform for such a special collection.