LSFF2019
The 16ᵗʰ London Short Film Festival
11th—20th January 2019
We’re back for #LSFF2019.
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Friday 11th January 2019
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Fri 11 Jan 2019
OPENING NIGHT: Now! That's What I Call '80s Short Film
The calling cards of the decades' graduating class. -
Fri 11 Jan 2019
OPENING NIGHT: All That Scratching Is Making Me Itch
An old school Scratch Video affair for our festival opener. -
Saturday 12th
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Sat 12 Jan 2019
THE ART OF INDUSTRY
Non-fiction asking questions of class identity and documentary’s legacy of ‘poverty porn’. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
A SIDESHOW GROTESQUERIE: Lone Taxidermist Performs Trifle (Early)
A musical and visual journey into the unruly depths of sploshing.Sold out -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
ACTION SPACE
A portrait of inflatable art practice in the Sixties and Seventies. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
UNVICTIMING: Women Filmmakers Reframe Sexual Violence
From Mendieta to Campion, Another Gaze interrogate sexual violence through the lenses of female filmmakers. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
A SIDESHOW GROTESQUERIE: A Beautiful Body Horror Video Show
Artist film delving into the manipulation of the human body.Sold out -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
EXPRMNTL
Belgium’s Knokke Film Festival defined the modern film festival away from the red carpet of Cannes. -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
A SIDESHOW GROTESQUERIE: Lone Taxidermist Performs Trifle (Late)
A musical and visual journey into the unruly depths of sploshing.Sold out -
Sat 12 Jan 2019
EMO VIDEO JUKEBOX
A music video jukebox from the pre-broadband golden age of punk rock and emo. -
Sunday 13th
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Sun 13 Jan 2019
AIR DRAFT: EXPRMNTL
Belgium’s Knokke Film Festival defined the modern film festival away from the red carpet of Cannes.Limited capacity -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
AIR DRAFT: Intentional Community
Nick Jordan and Clara Casian's documentary portrait of the Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research. -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
A SIDESHOW GROTESQUERIE: A Beautiful Body Horror Video Show
Artist film delving into the manipulation of the human body.Limited capacity -
Sun 13 Jan 2019
STRAIGHT8EST HITS VOL. I
One Super 8 cartridge. No edits. 20 years of history. -
Monday 14th
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
THE FEMALE LENS: An Illuminatrix Showcase
Looking to the resulting female gaze when illuminatrix's cinematographers helm the camera. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
ENGLISH PASTORAL: Better In Your Day
We ask questions of national identity and the Brexiter's rural idyll. -
Mon 14 Jan 2019
TOP BOYS
The Noughties generation of working class male filmmakers emerged redefining the cinematic landscape of the urban inner city. -
Tuesday 15th
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
"HEY BABY, SMILE FOR ME!"
T A P E examine women’s vulnerability within public spaces, why catcalling still happens and if there’s more we can be doing. -
Tue 15 Jan 2019
WHAT I REMEMBER: 3 Films by Antoinette Zwirchmayr with Q&A
Viennese filmmaker Antoinette Zwirchmayr tackles the complexities of a baroque family history. -
Wednesday 16th
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
DEREK JARMAN: The Music Videos
A retrospective of Derek Jarman's oft-forgotten but era-defining music videos. -
Thursday 17th
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
BUMBLE PRESENTS: The Female Film Force
Bumble screens its five Female Film Force commissions. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
THE CONTOURING OF DEAFHOODS
Looking to how D/deaf people shape themselves to the world around them. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
NEW QUEER VISIONS: In The Shadows Of Men
New Queer Visions return to London with short gems and docs of the queer variety from the world afar. -
Thu 17 Jan 2019
IT (STILL) AIN'T HALF RACIST, MUM
A screening and roundtable revisiting and reflecting on academic and activist Stuart Hall’s 1979 televisual essay. -
Friday 18th
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
COSEY FANNI TUTTI: On Film and In Conversation
Over some forty years, Cosey Fanny Tutti has explored the extremities of sonic and visual language. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
NASTY STUFF: Prano Bailey-Bond
A retrospective of the curious horrors of Prano Bailey-Bond. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
HISTORY OF HYPERDUB (WITH COOLY G AND OKZHARP LIVE)
The visual history of underground electronic label, Hyperdub. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
FISHING WITH JOHN with John Lurie In Conversation
John Lurie's ode to friendship, danger and reckless fishing. -
Fri 18 Jan 2019
NASTY STUFF: Basket Case
Prano Bailey-Bond has curated a personal favourite from the home video archive, screened on original 35mm for maximum scares. -
Saturday 19th
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Sat 19 Jan 2019
CLUB DES FEMMES: I Want A Dyke For President
These short works remind us another world is possible and that queer filmmakers have always been at the forefront of the struggle. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
DRAWN BY DESIRE: Women's Animation On Sex
Animation creates a unique safe space for women to visualise desire, reshape sexuality and say the unsayable. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
A CONSTELLATION OF COSMIC QUEENS
A kaleidoscopic offering of Afrofuturist short works that take us into the orbits of the Cosmic Queens. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
BEHIND THE WALL: Jürgen Böttcher
A mini retrospective of GDR documentarian Jürgen Böttcher, celebrating 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
NEW QUEER VISIONS: The Thrill Of The Future
NQV return to London with short gems and docs of the queer variety from the world afar. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
CLOSING NIGHT: No Woman Is An Island
The black women artists of London synthesising Afrofuturism through their electronic experiments. -
Sat 19 Jan 2019
SUPAKINO: Turbans Through Time
A special time-hopping, short film edition of SUPAKINO's turban-themed programming. -
Sunday 20th
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Sun 20 Jan 2019
BEHIND THE WALL: Phantoms
East German filmmakers explore the ephemeral and the forgotten. -
Sun 20 Jan 2019
BEHIND THE WALL: Ex Oriente Lux: 8mm Underground Experiments
The short films of the Ex Oriente Lux, the Berlin archive of GDR filmmaker's 8mm experimental works. -
Sun 20 Jan 2019
AT HOME AND NOT AT HOME
Africa Is A Country and the London Migration Film Festival present short films tracing the self-authored black British cinematic presence.