"Well done on the festival and thanks for organising the Filmmaking LAB - it was ace." - Joe McLaughlin.
If you are a filmmaker, beginner, advanced or keen on getting your hands-on then this is one great opportunity to get involved!
This year moves filmmaking LAB has been incredibly successful with 13 participating local film and media experimentalists picking up the theme Framing Motion producing a total of 7 short films during the festival days. All films were shown at the Closing Night on Sunday 25 April (the Bluecoat, Liverpool).
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GREEN (2'36 / Liverpool / 2010)
Sarah hides something misterious behind her eyes. She has the power of freeze all that she desires and she can't get. Becks knows her secret and runs after Sarah's print undoing her charm. But Sarah is not the only one who conceals a secret in this comic adventure...
Click on the image or title to watch Green!
Director & script writer: Karolain Arnelas
Producers: Eddy Taylor, Jonathan Hall, Karolain Arnelas
Camera: Jonathan Hall
Film editors: Luis Acedo, Karolain Arnelas
Composition/VFX: Luis Acedo, Karolain Arnelas
Music: José Ibáñez
Cast: Estrella Plaza, Raquel Ventura, Luis Acedo, Teresa Partida, Lisa Starkey, Catherine Connelly, Nacho Hernández, Marta B., Elisa Plata
Watch more films by Karolain Arnelas
here.
The red glow of the lights is unrecognisable until the pavement comes into sight. Then we hear a different tune, until finally, everything is put into perspective. Seeing things from a different focus of attention, we can see the bigger picture and things make a little more sense.
Click on the image or title to watch Repetition!
Director: Angela Walker
Music: Paul Hirons (organ)
Location: Liverpool Empire Theatre
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FLIGHT (2'45 / Liverpool / 2010)
Flight is an introduction to a larger scale project revolving around the symbolism of the dove. The object was to draw the viewers attention to the significance and art of storytelling through dance.
Click on the image or title to watch Flight!
Director: Jenny Collins
Camera: Jenny Collins
Cast: Bisakha Sarker
I had some pre recorded material which I wanted to play with as a first try of PC laptop basic editing (Roxio Easy Media Creator)
Cross fade and dissolve were the only effects I used. My intention filmically was to show and allow light change over time to juxtapose with bird time, capturing the speed, dynamics and intensity of a small animal who frequents my back yard. I made choices to keep ambiant real sounds in for some sections and to cut out altogether in others. It was a primitive effort to create another layer and dynamic with the time, tools and expertise that I had.
Click on the image or title to watch Light and Dunnock!
Director: Mary Prestidge
Editor: Mary Prestidge
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TOTALE (7'22 / Liverpool / 2010)
Realising I lacked the time and technical experience to film my initial ideas, I tried to compensate using my limited electronics and music knowledge to construct a Hex-Schmitt Trigger*.
The sleep-deprived 7 day filmmaking process then went through 3 stages.
- Erratic filming of local inner-city decay, post-industry and urban-countryside
- Improvised recordings of analogue synthesiser music/sound as a reference point for the Hex-Schmitt Trigger.
- I then fed the resulting film and music back through the Hex-Schmitt Trigger process to complete the edit.
*a physical and theoretical Hex-Schmitt Trigger device.
'Sometimes an input signal to a digital circuit doesn't directly fit the description of a digital signal. For various reasons it may have slow rise and/or fall times, or may have acquired some noise that could be sensed by further circuitry. It may even be an analog signal whose frequency we want to measure. All of these conditions, and many others, require a specialized circuit that will "clean up" a signal and force it to true digital shape.
The required circuit is called a Schmitt Trigger'
Inspired by the 1980's images of Liverpool 80's social-photographer,
Dave Sinclair.
Click on the image or title to watch Totale!
Director, Composer, Editor: Joe McLaughlin
Additional Stills: Paul Hirons
Road Crew: Sean Wars, Angela Walker
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moves10 Filmmaking LAB enthusiasts: Angela Walker, Dan Davies, Eddy Talor, Ian Freeman, Jenny Collins, Joe McLaughlin, Jonathan Hall, Karolain Arnelas, Lewis Wilde, Mary Prestidge, Max Zadow, Paul Hirons, Sarah Ward.
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WORKSHOP Interactive Scenography LAB, September, Liverpool (dates tba)
moves Interactive Scenography LAB: September 2010, LJMU Marsh Campus, Aigburth, L17 6BD Liverpool
A three day workshop lead by Santi Vilanova (
Telenoika) exploring the creation of theatre scenes through mixing new media with classical stage design. The workshop is aimed at filmmakers, video art and interactive art enthusiasts, musicians, scenographers and creative engineers.
Due to the massive air traffic disruptions in April this LAB had to be cancelled. However, we feel very fortunate to be able to announce that moves will be able to re-schedule this unique opportunity to work with a participant of the Telenoika collective.
REPETITION 
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