15 June 2008
Manchester With a Movie Camera
Best of young film-making
MANCHESTER With a Movie Camera is a showcase of some of the best short films Manchester has to offer.
Film-makers from the Manchester School of Art have spent 2008 creating beauty and fascination on celluloid, as part of the prestigious Contemporary Film and Video course.
On Wednesday June 18, the city’s Green Room venue, will host exclusive screenings of the new works including:
- - Ryan, a gritty drama about a violent adolescence
- - A experimental film about an animatronic teddy bear
- - A film about a boy sucked into a video game
- - A journey to trace a film-maker’s African roots
Around 200 industry people and young creatives will attend the screenings at the venue on Whitworth Street greenroomarts.org before many of the films are seen at festivals across the UK and beyond.
Final year student David Schofield, said his film Ryan looks through the eyes of a boy in a non-descript British town who finds himself drawn into an older boys’ world of aggression and intimidation.
Undergraduates on the Contemporary Film and Video course have won a string of awards at the Manchester Exposures Film awards, organised each winter at The Cornerhouse Arts Centre.
The 27-year-old said: “There’s some great work coming out of the School because we are given a lot of freedom to pursue any genre of film and MMU film-makers are encouraged to be different.”
To view Graduate work from Manchester School of Art, go to artdes.mmu.ac.uk/degreeshow.
