ENCOUNTERS SHORT FILM AND ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2014
20/20: Looking back to look forward

20TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL

16 – 21 September 2014

Bristol

From a one off event to mark the centenary of cinema to an international success story, Encounters is the UK’s leading short film festival.

In September Encounters Festival celebrates 20 years and will mark two decades of festival history with a 20th anniversary celebration alongside its 20th annual International Competition and Industry Forum.

20/20 Looking back to look forward connects the past to the future, presenting a special anniversary celebration of unmissable films, live performances, radical debates and forward thinking visions in sound and image.

Take a journey through radical filmmaking with this series of screenings and events at Cube Microplex over the Encounters festival weekend.

Encounters Festival in partnership with the Bristol Radical Film Festival, Vienna Independent Shorts, 2Annas International Short Film Festival in Latvia and the São Paulo Short Film Festival in Brazil presents a weekend of events exploring radical short film making, fascinating TV experiments and celebrating Super 8 and film footage as a form of counter culture and resistance.

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Trips and Trance – Ideas of a Subcutaneous Cinema + Q&A

This programme created by Vienna Independent Shorts, Encounters and Bristol Radical Film Festival and 2Annas Film Festival in Riga explores the idea of radical from the perspective of festivals based in three different geographical locations. While Encounters and the Bristol Radical Film Festival deal with political radicalisation in short film, 2Annas looks at a fascinating TV experiment of the early 90s. Vienna Independent Shorts, on the other hand, chases down the idea of subcutaneous cinema on an aesthetic level. 

Tickets via www.encounters-festival.org.uk. Online sales close an hour before the event. Cash sales on the door.