The childer refers to the children on the fringes of this dream home. Living on the outskirts of town in a nice elegant stone clad brand new house with lots of open space would seem a grand place to bring up your family. Well shot and full of colour it has a simple theme of keeping nature including its unpredictability in humans prone to error at bay. This is a domestic comic thriller/chiller of a simple narrative form. So do not read into these opinions as anything other than impressions. Chekhov said you should write everything – except denunciations. I have tried to give a view which is helpful, of personal insight and each will differ according to the expectations of the viewer as it happens to be the case everyone’s view is different and valid. They each however have a single story on screen and of it as well as having a future to penetrate and become more widely experienced. To bring positive critique to each is difficult as there are a range of competencies and instilled vision coming out of them. They stand as individual units too within the season itself and each differentiates between the alternative frequencies of thought they engage. This season is roaming into different melts of concept and vision than others, therefore directionally original. The acting, cinematography, music, direction and production capabilities are seen here as gaining traction year on year. Such is the wealth of new filmmaking we are getting used to seeing locally developing progressive waves of filmic thought being swept onto film, digital and otherwise and skilfully, beautifully realised. It is worth bearing in mind the displacement while seeing contexts and settings we are normally overfamiliar with. The locality is in many senses not important for the universality of the psyche has no borders and the themes realise this time after time. Many of these films have been supported by Ireland based ‘film institutions’ and some with local authority, even Credit Union backing. The road and genus loci are non specific (local does not require genus loci in my view – a spiritual sense is enough and the senses combined can detect it) in many giving us a wider view than the Ireland of the origins of the story or filmmakers output. The journey is sometimes held in a narrow gate, sometimes commonplace, sometimes unfamiliar yet known. Reality is frequently asserted as a starting point as it comprises characterisation, location, a foothold of a concept which will go forth and tumble and rise before us in a picturesque journey. Seen through the direction and vision, the film screen can conjure with our local vision as a mythical or unintentional reality. The basic parameters of the short films selected to be shown in the Belfast Film Festival season have numerous presences and absences of the Irish film world. There is a rather loose rural life skirting each programme in contrast to the dramatic and dystopian type narratives of the previous year.! Mystery, Death, Life and Reflection on all our natures. In order of screening at Queens Film Theatre 1 April 2017.
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