Occupied Territories
The world we live in is full of strange and hidden things. These films teach us to look anew at what’s in front of our eyes, to dissect the built environment, examine the landscape and experience how the moving image constructs the objects of our gaze.
Helen de Witt
Sons of Unless and Children of Almost (official theatrical trailer)
- Director Phil Coy
- UK 2014
- 3 mins
Abstracted animated gifs occupy the screen space structured in patterns that lead to a dramatic climax.
45 7 Broadway
- Director Tomonari Nishikawa
- USA 2013
- 5 mins
Black and white over-lapping images of Times Square printed onto coloured paper to crate a throbbing image of the city.
Ronse
- Director Robbrecht Desmet
- Belgium-Netherlands 2013
- 12 mins
The Flemish city captured with the precision of a Flemish genre painting though taut editing and framing that invites us to examine every detail.
Béton Brut
- Director Timothy Smith
- UK 2014
- 5 mins
London’s brutalist architecture reveals its complex structural and multi-textured beauty.
Wotruba
- Director Thomas Drachen
- Austria 2014
- 16 mins
Vienna’s unique Church of the Most Holy Trinity, a walk-in sculpture by architect Fritz Wotruba, is reconstructed into a new narrative through the assemblage of photographs.
The Take-Up
- Director Patrick Tarrant
- UK 2014
- 11 mins
A demonstration of ‘light bending’ as a single take and variable speed flicker effect animated an architectural environment.
Blinder
- Director David Leister
- UK 2014
- 6 mins
The 16mm image of domestic blinds also forms the optical soundtrack, making the contained domestic environment dazzle.
From A to B
- Director Julia Dogra-Brazell
- UK 2014
- 1 mins
A brief moment of life flies past, filmed in flickers in front of Andy Warhol’s Empire State Building.
Dog People
- Directors Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy
- Germany 2014
- 25 mins
Set in the future, this is the bizarre history of a colonial Admiral and the brutality he inflicted on the mythical Dog People as he searched for South American gold.
Monsters
- Director Toby Tatum
- UK 2014
- 3 mins
If you look carefully, monsters of the prehistoric past will emerge from the landscape around you.
Total running time 87 mins
Festival calendar
2018 Festival submissions
2018 BFI London Film Festival submissions are now open.
