SCI-FI-LONDON 9 : Shorts Programme 2 May 3, 2010

SCI-FI-LONDON is the UK’s leading genre event and an internationally recognised launch pad for genre movies. At each festival we have at least a dozen UK premieres.

The festival is now in its 9th year and will take place Wed 28th April – Mon 3rd May 2010 at The Apollo Piccadilly Circus Cinema, London’s most luxurious cinema.

Shorts Programme 2

We love short films and think they are a wonderful format for science fiction themes.

Each year we receive hundreds of excellent films and it is a difficult task to decide what to select for our shorts programme. A little like DJing, we want to get the mix right and take you on a fantastic journey – we feel we have it right this year with a remarkable range of styles and ideas from around the world.

CHOREOMANIA
(2009, Dir: Louis Paxton, UK, 9mins)
A contagion has spread through Glasgow transforming people into crazed maniacs, driven to dance.

CLONE
(2010, Dir: Chris Bouchard, UK, 2mins)
A two minute visual feast from the makers of THE HUNT FO R GOLLUM.

CONSCIOUSNESS
(2009, Dir: D.C. Marcial, USA, 11mins)
A disgraced biophysicist accidentally invents a robot with the ability to learn experience emotion.

ERASE LOVE
(2010, Dir: Javier Ideami, Indonesia, 12mins)
Facing the prospect of banishment, two sisters battle to outsmart the other.

ERGO
(2008, Dir: Geza M. Toth, Hungary, 12mins)
An animated tale of an encounter between two individuals. A playful story about the music inside us all.

GPS
(2009, Dir: Diego Sanchidrian, Spain, 8mins)
Javier’s new GPS system guides him through life’s busy streets and to his final destination.

HOMELAND
(2009, Dir: Juande Marfil, Czech Republic, 6mins)
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

PERFECT COMPANION
(2009, Dir: Jeff Winograd, USA, 9mins)
After trying an online dating service, woman meets man and is amazed at what follows.

RECEPTION
(2009, Dir: Vincent Caldoni, USA, 6mins)
Katrine is injured and lost in the woods. Help arrives from a man who seems to know more than he admits.

REIGN OF DEATH
(2009, Dir: Matthew Savage, UK, 6mins)
Set in a 1940s film noir future, a private eye pursues a robotic murder suspect to the murder location itself.

SUCK A THUMB
(2009, Dir: Richard Mansfield, UK, 6mins)
Konrad’s terrible addiction appears to have a singular, painful and bloody cure.

THE END OF EVOLUTION
(2009, Dir: Adam Besheer, UK, 7mins)
After a failed suicide attempt, a man discovers that he is the subject of a cryptic experiment.

THE SEARCH
(2009, Dir: Mark Buchanan, UK, 13mins)
A man searching for extraterrestrial life makes a more human connection with the family next door.

UBERMENSCH
(2009, Dir: Simon Temple, Australia, 15mins)
Former hero of the Third Reich, Ubermensch is confronted by a leading Nazi hunter.

Official Website: http://www.sci-fi-london.com/festival/2010/programme