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Films // Coming up // Cornwall Film Festival // Cornish Shorts & Diary of a Madman
5 November
Saturday
11:00am

Cornwall Film Festival // Cornish Shorts & Diary of a Madman

Cornish Shorts

A showcase of local filmmaking talent from entries submitted to the 2016 Cornwall Film Festival Short Film Competition, bringing worthy filmmakers to regional and national attention. Cornwall Film Festival seeks to represent the most innovative and adventurous from filmmakers whose short films manifest stylistic boldness, strength of form, and the ambition to use the medium in a way that resists cliché.

Cornish Saints / Lizzie Arthur / 05:53

Wet Dream / Joel Duddnell / 15:16

Rhubarb / Paul Hills / 03:46

Earth Beneath My Feet / Ella Jane New / 19:34

On Sunday / David Lea / 06:30

+ Chalk

A short film made by the BFI Cornwall Film Academy 2015 | 9:19

“Life Changes, Love Doesn’t”. Phil, a young gymnast, is not the most popular girl at the gym and often suffers the ridicule from Leila, the gym’s Queen Bee (or so she likes to think). However, Macey has stuck by Phil’s side so much that Phil has developed feelings for her that she has never had for anyone before. When Phil has a horrific accident during practice that puts her life at risk, she sees the world differently and the future she can have with the one she cares about most.

Diary of a Madman

Dir. Tanya & Paul Morel | UK  | 2016 | 74min | Drama | 12

 ‘a darkly comic, ultimately heartbreaking tale of one man’s journey into insanity’ adapted from the short story by the Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Poprishkin, a low ranking, civil servant with ideas above his station has fallen in love with the Director’s daughter. Coupled with delusions of grandeur and an inability to accept his lot in life, this obsession acts as catalyst that sets him on the road to madness. A journey that is both absurdly funny and heartbreakingly tragic…Adapted from the short story by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, this beautifully filmed and stunningly performed portrait of one man’s decline into insanity is intimate, authentic and ultimately very moving…Filmed over a week in a single room with a cast of one and a crew of three, the story is made up of 20 diary entries, each one shot in a continuous take. The result is an utterly compelling film that will stay with you long after you have finished watching.

“Absolutely amazing, cannot praise you enough for the whole production – totally blown away”It was terrific – a fascinating fusion of theatre and film”

+ Shooting in One Room Talk

Without the seemingly infinite budget enjoyed by larger production one-room productions provide filmmakers with an inexpensive setup to produce some of the most imaginative examples of their craft. While we appreciate films with vast sets and rich locations, some are shot in a single location that you can watch it without a break and with the viewers full attention from the gory, horrific and darkly imaginative, Saw that pushed this genre of one-room thrillers, forget one room – one car in Steven Knight’s Locke, with Tom Hardy to probably the best historical film in the genre, Sidney Lumet’s first feature 12 Angry Men (1957) a gripping and engrossing examination of a diverse group of twelve jurors who are uncomfortably brought together to deliberate after hearing the ‘facts’ in a seemingly open-and-shut murder trial case. It sheds light on the subtle ways people interact with each other Cinematographer Boris Kaufman, who had already demonstrated his skill in On the Waterfront (1954) uses diverse camera angles (a few dramatic, grotesque closeups and mostly well-composed medium-shots) to illuminate and energize the film’s cramped proceedings. We welcome filmmakers Paul & Tayna Morel to talk us through the opportunities and challenges of shooting in 1 room for Diary of a Madman.


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