Running from 6th – 15th January, the London Short Film Festival 2017 is chock-full of great events.
Now in its 14th year, the LSFF is playing host to a wide variety of short films, from comedy to documentary, music to animation. There’s something for everyone, even if you’ve never watched a short film in your life.
Spread out across a variety of London venues, there are hundreds of showings, previews and Q&As happening across the festival. We’ve picked out just a few of the highlights of the festival programme for you here.
Check out the full listing of the London Short Film Festival 2017.
David Bowie: Sound & Vision – Picturehouse Central, 10th Jan @ 18:30
Photo: BBC
One year on from David Bowie’s untimely death on 10th January 2016, LSFF screen three Bowie short films from across three decades, from his experimental beginnings of the ’60s to his golden era of the ’70s to his world domination of the ’80s.
Bands That DIY Together, Stay Together – Moth Club, 11th Jan @ 19:00
Photo:Â Diane Chorley
The history of music videos through DIY bands. From Skepta to The Pixies, musicians have been making music videos on the fly for decades. Join us to watch some of the best in a 50-minute programme.
The Vines of Limmy + filmmaker Q&AÂ –Â Picturehouse Central, 12th January @ 18:30
Photo: Limmy
Running parallel to the accolades of his TV success, Limmy was an early adopter of social media’s creative potential, utilising Twitter and Vine to create a continuous body of work that is frenetically contradictory in its ability to be provocative, naïve, insightful and knowingly dumb.
His Vines in particular provide a unique and deliriously disturbing insight into the existential terrors of the 21st century, with paranoia, mental illness, sexuality, boredom and the internet all coming under scrutiny in hundreds of these six-second long films.
White Trash Girls, Gun Girls & Riot Grrls – ICA, 14th January @ 17:00
Photo: Dirty Girls
Using confrontational imagery, a generation of female filmmakers looked to the scene for inspiration, drawing from the trash aesthetics of early John Waters and ’60s & ’70s exploitation cinema, re-invented as a feminist statement. These filmmakers and musicians led the way into a second wave of feminism emerging from the underground.
This short film programme brings together some of this Riot Grrrl influenced work, followed by a panel including Gina Birch (The Raincoats), Tamra Davis and other filmmakers in the programme, hosted by Mia Bays (Birds Eye View).
The London Short Film Festival runs from 6th – 15th January 2017 in venues across London. For tickets and more information, head to the LSFF website.
