bang! festivalography

The Visitor

A widower lives with his two young sons in an isolated farmhouse. Late one night he is disturbed by a visitor. It is his younger brother, who has brought a terrible problem to his doorstep.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - October 2007

'X' Marks The Spot : The Hidden History of Spring Boroughs

Ever considered time travel? Sit back and enjoy the ride as a group of young artists take you on a fantastic journey into the past.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Family Matinee - October 2007

Terzetto

Poetic drift through dawn through night in three crucial cities of our region, Derby, Nottingham & Leicester, part of the 3 Cities Scheme.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Bang! in the bar - April 2006

Speaking My Mind

Urban rappers bring their positive vibes from the streets to the screen.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Matinee Screening - August 2006

For Mum

Chakira tells us enthusiastically that she has a whale of a time and even bunks school and no one tells her off. How could they? Her mum's dying of cancer. The realisation that she'll lose her mum finally catches up with her.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Matinee Screening - March 2007

Personal Demons

Documentary exploring the "Personal Demons" of young people from Newman School, presented through a collection of individual reflections, stories and anecdotes.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Matinee Screening - March 2007

Doodlebug

A Boys doodle comes alive and chases him around the house.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Matinee Screening - March 2007

Used

A SOLEFUL drama... LACED with comedy.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - March 2007

Back to the Eighties

Music Video inspired by 'The Eighties' Track from Robbie Williams current abum, Rudebox.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - March 2007

Through the Headlines

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - September 2004

Nowhere Man

Sweet and gentle Kafka-esque tale of business enterprise and ambition in one's chosen field.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - January 2005

A Mid-Summer Nightmare

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - September 2004

Deliberate Death Of A Postman

Poetic insight on the mean streets of Nottingham, here a dog eat dog world of petty interest and sudden violence - provocative stuff.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2006

Missed Call

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2005

Porn of the Dead

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - July 2005

The Report

A horror/thriller about the mentally corrupting nature of the modern workplace.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Premier Screening - April 2006

Trinity Anthem

Awesome music promo for Derby based collective.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2006

Tonight

Amish is bored, Amish is depressed, Amish knows what he has to do next

Bang! Short Film Festival - Premier Screening - April 2006

Veggie Girl

Don't like your vegetables? There's only one thing to do.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2005

A Hiss In The Wind

Beware the moon. stick to the towpath. Dead pan and Frighteningly funny!

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2006

Tramspotting

A wild life documentary about newcomers to the area - our trams and their natural history, filmed entirely in our local.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2006

A Relatively Close Call

Cass is cheating on Anton and he smells a rat, but he needs proof. can he sniff out the truth? Great debut from rising new talent.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2006

The Night We Killed a Fox

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - July 2005

Nose Hair

Some things are best left alone.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Premier Screening - April 2006

The Magician

Beautiful, visually poetic study of a young boy's attempt to escape the reality of his family situation from Icelandic filmmaker Vera Juliusdottir.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2006

Baby On Board

Some things just can't wait. Great animated mayhem from ultra talented Mechen.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2006

wipeout

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - January 2000

What is Given

Clarke's poignant portrayal of one mans demise from happiness to a life on the streets.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2006

Skeletons

Two besuited men walk across the moor. They are going to do a job. Will their clients survive "the procedure"?

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2006

ReIntro: Music

In a port war age three teenagers stumble across a box from the past which holds many items; including an mp3 player. They soon encounter one of the lost arts of expressing the language of their existence: music.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2006

Low Budget Filmmaking - Trailer

Up and coming, Devenport's hilarious film about how hard it is to make a movie. Coming soon to a cinema near you..

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2006

A long way for a little taste

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2005

Milk

Bang! Short Film Festival - Matinee Screening - December 2005

The Love Train

Bang! Short Film Festival - Matinee Screening - December 2005

The Butterfly and Me

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2005

Gift

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - July 2005

Wig Sisters

Touching and hilarious tale of twisted theatrical sisters in their autumn years: rivalry, bitchiness, big hair! It's all here. Lovingly acted and shot this live action debut still carries Milner's adventurous animation sensibility.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - January 2005

i hate to love you

Feeling trapped, desperate, finding it hard to work? Sometimes it's just a matter of perspective. Great cast in a great looking debut film.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - January 2005

Gold

This beautiful visual documentary enters the world of suburban gymnastics and finds the inspiration waiting there.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - January 2005

Roboclaus

This smart comedy should to all that's necessary to take what's left of your Christmas spirit and destory it!

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - January 2005

Royalty

Gritty portrait of Kings Cross nightlife.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - May 2002

Look At Me

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003

The Meeting

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2003

Turn On Tune In - 107.9 FM

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003

From Darkness

Bang! Short Film Festival - Animation Screening - August 2003

Time Wasters

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - January 2000

Mixed Frequencies

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003

A Grande Love Story

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - September 2004

The Prince and The Pee

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2000

Curtain Call

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - September 2004

Off the beaten track

Great animation that dreams itself off the beaten track of this cyclist's journey.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Matinee Screening - January 2005

QNH

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2003

Fish

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - September 2004

Day Off The Dead

Bang! Short Film Festival - Animation Screening - August 2003

Even Heroes Die

Reflective hip hop video featuring local rapper Scor-Say-Zee with amusing extras

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2003

Some String

See a penny, pick it up

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - November 2001

Chile Bovine

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003

Mervyn

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2003

An Indian Restaurant

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2003

Map of the Scars

Bang! Short Film Festival - Retrospective - April 2003

Knitting a Love Song

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - September 2004

Those Letters That Should Be Received

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - September 2004

The Tourist Trap

Animated comedy about tourism on Mars

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - November 2001

Choccy White Head

Bang! Short Film Festival - Animation Screening - August 2003

Supaheroes

It's official: by the age of 9 you have lost your ability to fly! Smiles' smart and witty directorial debut has been distributed internationally, so we are pleased to showcase this Nottingham Permier for a younger audience.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Matinee Screening - May 2004

BBC House Special

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003

F-Stop

Science-Fiction-mad-scientist-lunacy, brilliantly visualised and brought to the screen with amazing special effects from the Hot Knife boys. I'd take this as a serious warning about the perils of an unchecked science destroying our environment.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - May 2004

Bass Invaders

Hard hitting special effects pop promo with storyline

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - November 2001

Pillow's Story

The confessions of a pillow! Warning: Matsuda's intensely funny animated tale of the trials and tribulations of an everyday household pillow will leave you unable to sleep comfortably ever again.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - May 2004

Chinese Fork Tie

A cautionary tale in today's violent world

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - November 2001

The Brick

Even the smallest amount of power can to to someone's head. This startling and original piece of animation is sure to be a festival favourite around the world.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - May 2004

Get Got

Horror, Violence, Zombies... all on the domestic front! Gruesome stuff from a bunch of local filmmakers, a promising debut indeed.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - May 2004

Pieces

Winner of the Royal Television Society Award: Best Non-Factual Short (that's drama to you and me!) 2003. Scary stuff : as each piece slowly falls into place just don't try looking over your shoulder! M.R. James' styled ghostly horror with a twist in this unsettling and controlled short.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - May 2004

How It Was That We Got To Be Angels

Howell's tragic, sad and movingly comic animated mini-masterpiece was a deserved hit at both Brief Encounters in Bristol and the Halloween Film Society. Some dead people are more equal than others, or so it seems.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - May 2004

Tin Ear, Cold Heart, Closed Mind

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003

In Absentia

From finish to start, this experimental narrative turns and twists.

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - May 2002

The Joe Show

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2003

1:10 Score

Quirky heist comedy in a small town

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2003

Trailer

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003

Xylo-View

Strange journey of an old xylophone player

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2003

A Toast to Love

Surreal comedy involving the latest in kitchen appliances

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - November 2001

PANIC - I Don't Believe In The Loch Ness Monster

Lo-fi punk video animation made with pencil and tracing paper

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2003

Life's a blast

The final in the trilogy from Shaun - 3 geordies go on an untimely camping trip - Hilarious adventure ensue.

Bang! Game City Screenings - Main & Matinee - October 2006

A Stoner's Guide To Egg Fried Rice

Exactly what it says on the tin

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - April 2003

Hangover

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003

Bigpaw

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - December 2000

Arachne

Bang! Short Film Festival - Main Screening - August 2003