we're showing a retrospective of a decade of straight 8 excellence crammed onto one screen

at the london short film festival

there are so many… we’re showing two at a time - with the audio on switchable headsets
...
two 4:3 straight 8 films fit perfectly in a cinemascope crop. so it’s meant to be. bonkers. but fun

it's happening at the fabulous roxy bar and screen, at 8pm this monday, 10th january

tickets are £5 on the door

we held our first retrospective2 screening at the ICA last year and it went down a storm so this one is not to be missed

we’ve chosen the film pairings for maximum impact and oddity...

watching a shocking and dark film about a man with a perversion that makes him want to eat parts of his own body preferably served by prostitutes (damnation) while hearing from outside your headphones the other half the cinema roaring with laughter at julia davis and rich fulcher frolicking in their 2008 fetishistic straight 8 caper (black whispers in an elephant sky) is bonkers and totally ace. whew. and that's just one of 21 pairs of films

huge thanks to 750 audio post-production who’ve made the arty audio mayhem possible

loads of the cream of straight 8 filmmakers will be there and it's the perfect place to find inspiration for your straight 8 2011 film

you'll be able to get discounted, on-the-spot entry, and we're raffling off an entry too

be there or be square(d)

we're going to show:

black whispers in an elephant sky - oliver ralfe
catch - lyndy stout
class of 2005 - james owen & chris durban
connections - steve oram & nick lear
damnation - sean rooney
day - max day
deja vu - sandalz
dogma 99 - marcus baron
earth to earth - nick scott
everything but.. - colin dewar
evol - chris vincze
fish stew showdown - ben dickinson
forced hilarity - edgar wright
gunter - nick white & olly williams
harry - dave waters
heel - diego arredondo
hide & seek - gavin boyter
i wish i could fly - tom merilion
intermezzo tacito - daniel rossberg
i've been single too long - shane davey
jour de gloires - pascal fillion
piece of heaven - felix barbosa & y misael barbosa v
ransom - will & george
robot - matthew keen
scrap paper - andrew jive
springlove - herrjaapmans
stephen's cat - dave buonaguidi
sticks & balls - jacqueline wright & alice lowe
stiffy - jacqueline wright & alice lowe
tequila chamuco - diego arredondo
the autobahn poet - frederik hamm
the french collection - ben richardson, nick rutter & noah rutter
the getaway - david padadac, dermot power & george georgiou
the happiest day of my life - christopher rodriguez
the james young lecture series: sync - demetri jagger & david palmer
the last trip - malcolm finlay
the other half - nick scott
the surrealist brothel - julia jason
the yipps - jon greenhalgh
the yorkshire rapper - nick rutter
vive la respiration - ed sayers
whispering palms - phase iv