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Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival

8 05 2018 - 10 05 2018

Real to Reel, the UK’s first film festival devoted to making, returns to Picturehouse Central, Piccadilly, London, this spring and promises to be one of the highlights of London Craft Week. The event, produced by Crafts magazine and the Crafts Council, runs over three evenings from 8-10 May.

While nights one and two contain the event’s usual mixture of short documentaries on makers, animations and music videos from around the world, the third evening is devoted to a talk from Mackinnon & Saunders, puppet maker extraordinaire, whose credits include Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks, Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie as well as Fantastic Mr Fox, directed by Wes Anderson. The company has also worked on a string of children’s TV classics such as Bob the Builder, Postman Pat and Rasta Mouse.

The event will include the premiere of the digitally remastered version of the Oscar nominated animation The Sandman. As Burton once said of them: ‘They do such beautiful work, very sensitive and textural; you really do believe the characters are alive.’ It promises to be a must-see for fans of animation.
Meanwhile highlights to look out for from the opening two nights include:

  • Made In London: Chris Keenan. Directed by William Scothern, the documentary is the story of how this brilliant potter went from being a jobbing actor into one of the most successful ceramists in the country via an apprenticeship with Edmund de Waal.
  • Alan Kitching: A life in letterpress. A short film by Alice Masters that goes behind the scenes to explain the history and thinking of this legendary figure of British craft.
  • Our Common Humanity. An insight into the work of the brilliant Costa Rican glass artist Juli Bolaños-Durman directed by Diego Almazan de Pablo and the maker herself.
  • Edmond. The BAFTA-winning stop motion animation by Nina Gantz focusses on the life of a young man as he contemplates suicide. Surreal, macabre and poignant in equal measure.
  • Marble Machine. Created by Swedish folktronica band, Wintergatan, the music video features an instrument that might have been created by Heath Robinson and uses over 2000 marbles.
  • Keith Harrison, Joyride. A documentary directed by Stephen Gammond illustrates the making of the artist’s ambitious Jerwood Open Forest commission. His idea is to launch a ceramic replica of the last Rover 75 to leave Birmingham’s Longbridge car plant Evel Knievel-style off a timber ramp in Cannonck Chase Forest. But will it all go to plan?

For the first time the festival has a headline sponsor, Killik & Co.,an independently owned investment house.

Details

Start:
8 05 2018
End:
10 05 2018
Event Category:
Website:
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/real-to-reel-the-craft-film-festival/

Organiser

Crafts Council

Venue

Picturehouse Central
20-24 Shaftsbury Avenue, Chinatown
London, W1D 7DH United Kingdom
+ Google Map
Phone:
020 7733 2229

Details

Start:
8 05 2018
End:
10 05 2018
Event Category:
Website:
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/real-to-reel-the-craft-film-festival/

Organiser

Crafts Council

Venue

Picturehouse Central
20-24 Shaftsbury Avenue, Chinatown
London, W1D 7DH United Kingdom
+ Google Map
Phone:
020 7733 2229

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