Review: Flagfall film festival
Posted by Campbell on | March 1, 2006
It’s a pretty cool concept. Popcorn Taxi (who run regular screenings and Q&A sessions for all things cinematic) and Touch Taxi (who have a fleet of about 50 Melbourne taxis with interactive video screens for their passengers) join forces, get a few sponsors on board and launch the Flagfall Film Festival- a film festival for short films under three minutes. The taxi guys get some new content for their displays and the film makers get their films seen by people other than their friends, family and the film world (I think the films will also be shown on the big screen at Fed Square and possibly on SBS).
Last night I went to a screening of the sixteen films that were selected (out of about 80 nominations). The genre obviously lends itself to the gag-film and I was a bit disappointed that many of the films were built around one fairly simple joke told fairly simply- 3 minutes can feel like a long time when you’ve guessed the punch-line in the first 20 seconds. But that being said the final collection spanned a wide range of styles, techniques, budgets and a huge amount of passion and energy had obviously gone into all of the films.
They’re all up here for viewing. If you’re pushed for time/bandwidth my Top 6 would be:
- Café Noir
- Every Day
- The Arsonist’s Riddle
- Medusa: First Date
- Seven Days with Seven Dogs
- Brunswick 2005 a year to remember
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