Female Trouble
DESCRIPTION
Women reclaim their bodies through sex, dance, and smear tests gone awry in this genre-bending selection of shorts. Exploring what the female body can do when pushed to its limit, here it is both battleground, and cause for celebration.
CUT
After being the victim of revenge porn, 17-year-old Chloe decides to enter a Fitness Model competition in order to change her image. But once at the competition she realises that her negative image will be difficult to shed. How far will she go to redefine herself and regain control?
Nominated for:
Directing Award - Eva Sigurdardottir
XX Award
Writing Award - Eva Sigurdardottir
ABANDON
Shot in one take, Abandon follows Clemmie, an ambitious dancer in her early thirties when she finds out she’s unexpectedly pregnant.
Nominated for:
Directing Award - Georgia Parris
Sound Design Award - Jo Jackson
SMEAR
Chloe thinks she’s just going in for a routine pap-smear. Things do not go as planned.
Nominated for:
Production Design Award - Sets Appeal
SOLDIER BEE
A Captain returns home from Afghanistan after being injured in a rigged booby trap that has left her scarred both physically and on a deep psychological level.
Nominated for:
Acting Award - Shauna Macdonald
PERFECT VAGINA
An animated interview with a 15-year-old girl who describes her experiences with shaving her pubic hair and the social pressure on girls having to do it from her school.
Nominated for:
Under 25 Animation - Alexandra Peake
PORTRAIT
A film about a Victorian photographer taking a portrait of a mother and child, interrogating and elaborating on exposure time and the creator of the image.
Nominated for:
Cinematography Award - Flo Wallace
PLASMA VISTA
Objects and devices become bodily and manipulative. The magician is a composed cartoon machine repeating tricks and equations. When products become prosthetics does the accessory take some emotional control?
Nominated for:
Directing Award - Sarah Cockings and Harriet Fleuriot
AM I DEAD
Traumatic experiences in our past, or in our recent ancestors’ past, leave molecular scars adhering to our DNA.
Nominated for:
Composing Award - Die Hexen