Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival 2015 reports

Remember life: the best international live-action shorts at Encounters 2015

Punk springs eternal as America’s Jennifer Reeder won her second consecutive Grand Prix for Blood Below the Skin, but otherwise the spirit of mittel-European social realism stood tall at Bristol’s short film festival, reports Tim Hayes.
Wednesday 21 October 2015

Strange crannies of the world: the best of British live action at Encounters 2015

From Iceland to Bangladesh to west London, public and private spheres were played off one another in this year’s native highlights at the Bristol short film showcase, reports Dylan Cave.
Wednesday 21 October 2015

Boys and men: the best of British animation at Encounters 2015

Jez Stewart on the atavistic native visions at Bristol this year, from Richard Williams’ hand-drawn rendition of ancient-Greek warfare to an EDL dad, a neanderthal id, a sad young wool-mation cannibal and an anachronistic woolly mammoth.
Wednesday 21 October 2015

Toons by women at Encounters 2015

Female animators weren’t on the wane at this year’s Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival. Alex Dudok de Wit picks a handful of the standouts.
Wednesday 21 October 2015