Join us on closing night of Two Short Nights for the premiere of this year’s Exeter Phoenix Short Film Commissions! An exciting celebration of the dedication, hard work and talent of this year’s cohort of south west based filmmakers and artists.

PROGRAMME

OXTOBY
Dir. Pippa Marriott | DOCLAB Micro Documentary Film Commission
A chance to meet ‘the other David’ – close friend of Hockney and fellow Bradford Mafia member – who took both the art and Rock n’ Roll worlds by storm with his vivid representations of live music. From Little Richard to Elton John, Lennon to Hendrix, Oxtoby partied with and painted them all. Why haven’t we heard of him? And whatever happened to David Oxtoby?

ROADWYTCH
Dir. Libby Bove | Artists Moving Image Commission
Roadwytch follows a day in the life of a recovery operative, set within another Albion, where plant knowledge, ritual and mechanics work as one. Presenting an intimate portrait of a skilled practitioner existing in a world that could have been, had our connection to magic and ritual not been lost.

SELAMAT JALAN
Dir. Keisha Philia Ibrahim, Himanshu Gorantala | GWR Animation Commission
As first-timers in a foreign country, a newly formed couple embarks on an exciting, adventurous, and heartfelt train journey throughout the United Kingdom, slowly getting more comfortable with each other.

TIME WELL SPENT
Dir. Sam Maxwell | GWR Animation Commission
A mixed-media short that reflects on the quiet productivity of travel. A working professional boards a train, intending to catch up on tasks. But as the journey unfolds, structured work gives way to spontaneous doodling, inspired by the rhythm of the train and the passing landscape.

SUNBEAM
Dir. Sinead O’Toole | Micro Short Film Commission
A girl follows internet advice in an attempt to feel better, only to be frustrated by the result.

YOUTH CLUB
Dir. Tiana Linden | Micro Short Film Commission
Lou is desperate to empower local teenagers with her youth club. But they can’t help rejecting her, seeing through her tough-woman act to the bullied teenager looking for the friendships she never had.

ON THE SAME EARTH
Dir. Sam Cox | 19-25 Devon Film Fund Commission
Eadlin, a Saxon separated from her tribe, is now surviving alone settling in unfamiliar land. Scared of the native locals and mythical creatures she begins to question her views after confronting both.

GABRIEL-ERNEST
Dir. Toby Parker Rees | Devon Short Film Commission
When a youth claiming to be a werewolf appears on the grounds of her estate, a repressed Edwardian naturalist struggles to preserve decency over beastliness.

DAWNBREAKER
Dir. Elinor Lower | South West Short Film Commission
Dawnbreaker follows the reclusive Gill who, ground down by years of ritual, is forced to begin the process of handing over her life’s work to a sceptical child. That work? Ensuring the sun rises and sets, so the world doesn’t end.

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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