Digital Out of competition DAY1 (Saturday 20th November)

Package 1
Saturday 20th November 10am-2pm
The Nerve Centre  
FOUR EYES
Paul Hunt is robbed of his £1000 deposit for his new flat.
Scotland 2003 / Director: Duncan Finnigan / Producer: Duncan Finnigan / Duration 74 mins
THE RETURN OF PEG LEG PETE
An unemployed swashbuckler despairs of ever taking to the waves again in this peculiar bittersweet comedy
UK 2003 / Director: David Cairns / Producer: Nigel R Smith / Duration 9 mins 46 secs
SOMETHING
Two boys and a girl are in an underground car park, is what follows fact or fiction?
France 2002 / Director: Ackel Stephane / Producer: Frecinaux David / Duration 5 mins
INCUBUS
Cameron, a disturbed angry man with a failing marriage is pushed over the edge with dire consequences.
Ireland 2003 / Directors & Producers: Tom Maguire & Stephen Crilly / Duration 7 mins
TRAVELLING HOMES
A documentary on the changes in accommodation laws in the Republic of Ireland and how they affect the travelling community.
Northern Ireland 2003 / Director: Patricia Byrne / Producer: Helen Harris / Duration 6 mins 6 secs
LORD OF THE FLEAS
When your bonfire is stolen by a rival gang, there is only one thing to do. Head through no-man's land and steal it back.
UK 2003 / Director: Stuart Grieve / Producer: Angela Smith / Duration 10 mins 34 secs
SOLID AIR
A compulsive gambler confronts the law and his loyalties in a quest to win compensation for his father's asbestosis.
UK 2003 / Director: May Miles Thomas / Producer: Owen Thomas / Duration 118 mins
THE HUGO MELLON SHOW
Hugo Mellon, Ireland's toughest talking chat show host, grills today's hottest Rock Gods.
UK/Ireland 2004 / Director: Joel Simon / Producer: Paul Largan / Duration 9 mins 30 secs
PAYBACK
A humorous depiction of how a woman uses her power and glory to ensure that she is the last one standing.
India 2003 / Directed & Produced by Future Thought Productions Pvt. Ltd. / Duration 54 seconds
THE FINAL HOURS
That which is seen is temporary but that which is not is eternal…
UK 2004 / Director: Mark Kessler / Duration 6 mins 26 secs
DOCTOR ON CALL
One old lady proves too much for an evil doctor practising euthanasia on his elderly patients.
Ireland / Director: Joseph Shortall / Producer: National Film School / Duration 5 mins 30 secs
YOKO! JAKAMOKO! TOTO! - THE TRAVELLER
An overseas traveller arrives and wants to befriend the three birds but Toto is not sure if he wants to be friends.
UK 2003 / Directors: Tony Collingwood & Andrea Tran / Producer: Chris O'Hare / Duration 5 mins
UP ON THE ROOF
Forgetting his keys is only the start of Peter's problems as he searches for somewhere to sleep.
Ireland 2004 / Director: Peter O'Sullivan / Producer: National Film School / Duration 7 mins 30 secs
MTV IMMIES
An ordinary homeless man metamorphosis into an electrifying superhero, born of music and light.
India 2003 / Director: Future Though Productions Pvt. Ltd / Duration 1 min
HERMAN CAN SING
A young vaudevillian ventriloquist attempts to charm a drunken audience with his song. Can Herman sing?
UK 2003 / Director& Producer: Douglas Neilson / Duration 6 mins
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
A crab's struggle to remove trespassing coconuts from his desert island.
Ireland 2004 / Director: Shane Collins / Produced by the National Film School / Duration 4 mins 55 secs
THE TREE OFFICER
A day in the life of a man stuck in the wrong job.
Scotland 2003 / Director: Neil Jack / Producer: Cameron Fraser / Duration 8 mins
BULLOX
Aliens abduct some cows and use their milk as fuel but they make a drastic mistake when they take a bull by mistake.
Ireland 2004 / Director: Paul Sheehy / Produced: by the National Film School / Duration 5 mins 10 secs
FATAL DISTRACTION
A short stop-motion comedy with three gangster mice shooting the breeze about poker, death and a rabbit with a damp ear.
Scotland 2004 / Director: Neil Jack / Producer: Cameron Fraser / Duration 2 mins 53 secs

OUT OF THE COLD
The story of a ten-year old boy growing up in a small fishing village and his fall from innocence into experience.
UK 2003 / Director: Nic Shearer / Producer: Arabella Page Croft / Duration 17 mins

 

Package 2
Saturday 20th November 6-8pm
The Nerve Centre  
PUSH HANDS
A teenage graffiti artist and a Chinese tai chi master share a beach in contemporary Ireland
Ireland 2004 / Director: Stephanie Green / Producer: Tamara Anghie / Duration 8 mins
THE TALE OF TARQUIN SLANT
A dark fable about greed, redemption and one giant eye.
Scotland 2004 / Director: Steven Morrison / Producer: Caspian Productions / Duration 12 mins 37 secs
HARD LABOUR
Simon gets two women pregnant: his wife Emily and their au pair Yelena.
UK 2003 / Director: Oliver Krimpas / Producer: Alexander O'Neill / Duration 10 mins
JACK
A couple are returning from a dinner party in the country when they cross paths with two burglars desperate for a getaway.
Ireland 2004 / Director: Simon Hubbard / Producer: Simon Hubbard & Declan Reynolds / Duration 8 mins

PUBLIC DOMAIN
Investigating the possibility of a future in which human experience is threatened and compromised.
Canada 2003 / Director: Kris Lefloe / Producer: Dane A. Smith / Duration 77 mins

 

Digital Out of competition DAY2

Package 1
Saturday 27th November 10am-2pm
The Nerve Centre
TAKE IT BACK
A man regrets a mistake that will change his life.
Ireland 2004 / Director & Producer: Viko Nikci / Duration 10 mins
BROWN PAPER BAG
Love, loss, denial and a severed ear. An alcoholic couple are on the road to self-destruction.
England 2003 / Director: Michael B Clifford / Producer: Natasha Carlish / Duration 13 mins
ALMOST STRANGERS
The lives of a street kid, a business man, an old lady, and a musician overlap in one night in the city. Officially selected at the Britspotting Film Festival 2004.
England 2004 / Director: Sarah Walker / Producer: Katy Connor / Duration 10 mins
NOSTRADAMUS AND ME
Dublin 1986. Nora has never kissed a boy, but who has time for that when the arms race is out of control and the world is falling apart? Award winner at the Columbia Film Festival, New York 2004 and the Galway Film Fleadh.
Ireland 2004 / Director: Eilis Kirwin / Producer: Samson Films & Trinity Films / Duration 16 mins
SHORT
A man, short changed in life and short in height finds a woman short of love.
UK 2003 / Director: Waris Islam / Producers: Rachel Robey & Al Clark / Duration 9 mins
FOREVER
When Sturges is sent to investigate the strange and solitary figure of John Reilly, he has to open his mind to encompass the impossible.
UK 2004 / Director: Terry Flaxton / Producer: Alison Sterling / Duration 22 mins
ZERWANY
Mateusz lives in a world of violence: in his foster family, his children's home, his corrective home and even his school.
Poland 2003 / Director Jacek Fillipiak / Producer Jacek Gwizdala / Duration 96 mins
DARK. BRIGHT. RED.
In the insular world of a peculiar London hotel, a lonely refugee isolated by her inability to communicate, turns to the shelter of her imagination, willing away the hours of her night shift, daydreaming.
England 2004 / Director & Producer: Danann Breathnach / Duration 9 mins
VIDEOTAPE
A man receives a videotape. Another man's life hangs in the balance. What will happen?
Ireland 2004 / Director & Producer: Kenneth Hickey / Duration 5 mins
THE SECRET OF YEAR SIX
Reluctantly Mike and Valerie attend a class reunion. To clear up a misunderstanding between them, Mike takes Valerie back in time to tell her the story of a young boy and his 'out of control' older brother.
England 2003 Director: Francois Gandolfi / Producer: Helen Jenks / Duration 10 mins
THE FUNERAL PARLOUR
A young boy accompanies his parents to a funeral…
Ireland 2004 / Director David Hegarty / Producer Garry Kelly / Duration 5 mins
WHAT THE
On television…everyone can hear you scream
England 2004 / Director & Producer: Simon Ellis / Duration 6 mins 45 secs
OPEN A DOOR IN SOUTH AFRICA; YOLANDA
Yolanda knocks her neighbour's shopping off her head, breaking the lady's eggs. When her neighbour gets angry, Yolanda is determined to find a way to replace them.
South Africa 2003 / Director: Wendy hardie / Producers: Charles Owen & Anne Wood / Duration 5 mins
SQUADDIE
A young soldier goes a.w.o.l. having heard bad news from home. He drowns his sorrows in a pub on the wrong side of town. The paramilitaries are just one step behind…
Northern Ireland 2004 / Director: Conor McDermott / Producer: Patrick Fitsymons / Duration 12 mins

BESONDERHEITEN
Science breaks down the wonders of the world and has always inspired creators. A short tale of a character whose world is broken into component parts revealing the magical way it has been put together.
England 2004 / Directors & Producers: Christopher Gooch & Aaron Bradbury / Duration 9 mins 44 secs

 

Package 1
Saturday 27th November 6-8pm
The Nerve Centre
SSSH!
Lawrence cannot sleep because of the noise in the world around him. Seemingly defeated, he collapses into a new way of hearing that finally gives him peace. Premiered at the Edinburgh
International
UK 2003 / Director & Producer: Zara Waldeback / Duration 8 mins
VATICAN DOGS
An homage to the Tarantino Classic. A hilarious insight tothe breakfast time banter among the clergy.
Ireland 2003 / Director & Producer: Garry McGovern / Duration 9 mins 53 secs
THE ISLE
A foreigner photographing dilapidated buildings thinks that they could be on Bocklin's "Isle of the Dead" but he soon sees similarities between the two isles.
Malta 2004 / Director: Kenneth Scicluna / Producer: Dennis Mahoney & Mikaer Olsen / Duration 7 mins 14 secs
TRIUMUIRATE: THREE SHORTS DOCUMENTING THE METHOD OF PROCESS (i.
INTERVIEW ii. FOREIGNER iii. SEEING RED)
Memory as a metaphor for a collective experience that records the physical and emotional displacement of the artist in the process of creation.
UK 2004 / Director & Producer: Sierra T. Choi / Duration 8 mins 20 secs
HARD BEING A SPERM
Sperm are in a race to the woman's egg but they soon find that the race is quite difficult.
Northern Ireland 2004 / Director & Producer: Christian McGilloway / Duration 2 mins 30 secs

KNITTING A LOVE SONG
Pearl is in love with Jack but as he doesn't know she exists, she knits her passion into a scarf and leaves it in his locker..
England 2004 / Director Annie Watson / Producer Debbie Ballin / Duration 13 mins 55 secs