20 Finalists for Noka/Darklight Pocket Movies Challenge |
| Film Title |
Filmmaker |
Descriptions |
| Fester! Fester! |
Alex Ryan |
The smell of oil and burning rubber are rarely associated with supermarket trolleys, but when a mighty clash of adrenaline junkies takes place along the pathways of a sprawling city park, the race is on... |
| This time last Tuesday |
Tim Clague |
What happens when you don't quite get around to shooting the film. Is talking about it better than actually doing it? This is a film for all the frustrated film makers out there. |
| Encoded Presence [auto-portrait of E. Puente] |
Michael Takeo Magruder |
'Encoded Presence' concerns the re-purposing of the mobile phone from a mundane communication device to a cinematic instrument. A subject was asked to generate cinematic content interpreting the theme 'auto-portrait' |
| A Little Closer to Home |
Ray Mongey |
Great distances separate these lovers, but there is something that can make them feel closer. Cool combination of 2D and 3D animation give this film a rich texture. |
| The Lovely Show |
Lorcan Finnegan |
bizarre and funny short comedy sketches |
| Nun Fight Club |
Declan De Barra |
Nuns have underground clubs too! |
| OctoBabylon |
Octopussy Collective |
Octopussy Collective are a Dublin-Chicago based collaborative film group producing and directing with radical digital platforms for the good of all mankind. OctoBabylon tells the tale of subversion and intrigue in the age-old battle of science against religion |
| Bandit Bambino! |
Matthew Harding |
A young television viewer reacts to a badly dubbed Spaghetti Western, firing off a verbal assault of deadly desperado style cliche's with the speed and accuracy of a mean gun-slinger. |
| Fosbury Flop |
Andy Sandham |
There's more than one fish out of water when an unsuspecting cyclist stumbles across a clandestine gathering of trout... |
| WC |
Nicolas Hemmelmann |
Two restroom icons one day discover the simple pleasures that make life worth living... |
| Sometimes |
Pleix |
Sometimes is, before anything else, a work on dynamic & energy's destruction. The origine of the project is af course the horrible event of the 11th of september but it's also the explosion's scene of "Zabriskie Point" a Michelangelo Antonioni's film. |
| Marbles |
Glenn Marshall |
3d mini-fantasia of Marbles & Chopin |
| Catalunya |
David Jinks |
Mediterranean sun, sweeping bends, the roar of 170 brake horse power and 162mph down the home straight. Experience the thrill of riding a superbike around Spain's premier Grand Prix circuit. Four miniCAMs bring this high octane sprint to the safety of your screen. |
| Attack of the Fifty Foot Fiends |
Mark Estell |
A devastating attack on a town by three giant monsters is stopped dead in its tracks when one of them reveals he is gay. As the tiny townsfolk look on in amazement, things degenerate into a childish argument ending with a side splitting and catastrophic conclusion. |
| Changes |
Lorcan Finnegan |
Two caterpillars wildly in love embark on a journey of change. But will they feel the same way when they emerge from their chrysalises? |
| Limbo |
Elvis D'Silva |
A spaceship drops something explosive on a vacant piece of land. After some rain and sunshine, a leafless tree grows on that spot. Pretty soon the spaceship is back to pluck the tree out of the ground and put it to its actual use. |
| Just Dessert |
Andrew Hai and Jamie Janson |
After taunting a young girl who has dropped her ice-cream, the nasty man gets his Just Dessert. |
| No Spoon |
Jan Cilliers de Wet |
Jasper gets a flat tyre in the middle of nowhere (ie everywhere) and gets to fix it in a pretty bizarre way. Thelonius the Zen fish helps out by being utterly, infuriatingly inscrutable. There's magic, unexpected bangs, and a very odd puncture kit. |
| Human Beatbox |
Andy Sykes |
Human Beatbox is an animation about frustration. It depicts an irritating man on a train drumming on a table. The narrator, whose eyes we see this through, gets gradually more angry as the drumming continues, until finally he snaps. . |
| 'Evil fun with Zimmy' and 'Zimmy Mini Stories |
Andy Sykes |
Two young boy's faith in humanity is shaken by the arrival of a novelty bar of soap. |
| Lunchbreak |
Ralitza Petrova |
A bunch of scallies have a twisted idea to make quick cash on the back of the workingman. But who is more twisted in the end? |
