LSFF2020
The 17th London Short Film Festival
10th—19th January 2020
We’re back for #LSFF2020.
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Friday 10th January 2020
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Fri 10 Jan 2020
OPENING NIGHT: Memos for the Next Millennium
The early works that have defined LSFF's seventeen-year-long preoccupation with the experimental. -
Fri 10 Jan 2020
OPENING NIGHT: More Than Just a Pretty Face - Alt Drag Revolution
In partnership with East London troublemakers Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, we delve into the rich history of alt-drag. -
Saturday 11th
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Sat 11 Jan 2020
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Dirty Commie Bastard!
Ephemeral films dig into the absurd rhetoric used to warn citizens of insidious communist tactics. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
FROM EARLY: The Foundations of the Grime Aesthetic
As a movement, grime is hard to define. -
Sat 11 Jan 2020
THE BEST OF BLONDIE
Appraising Blondie's ’70s and early ’80s video aesthetic with their mega-compilation screening on original VHS. -
Sunday 12th
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Sun 12 Jan 2020
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: American Nightmare
In this treasure trove of oddities, we look at how the ephemeral film functioned in the everyday. -
Sun 12 Jan 2020
THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: The Birds and The Bees
With this selection, we take a dive into the world of the sexual education film. -
Sun 12 Jan 2020
PLATFORM: Diana Vidraşcu
Diana Vidrașcu’s work explores the fallibility and subjectivity of memory, time and reality. -
Sun 12 Jan 2020
POGGI & VINEL: Faith in Incoherence
The short film works of Jessica Forever directing duo, Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel. -
Sun 12 Jan 2020
THE NEW EXPERIMENTALISTS: The Arts Foundation Finalists
Four powerful new voices span CGI and hand-drawn animation, documentary and artist’s video. -
Monday 13th
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Mon 13 Jan 2020
PLATFORM: Rainer Kohlberger
A retrospective of the boundary-pushing work of Austrian artist Rainer Kohlberger at the Science Museum's IMAX. -
Tuesday 14th
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Tue 14 Jan 2020
PENELOPE SPHEERIS SHORTS
This cross-section of Spheeris's early short films reveal a rule-breaking talent concerned with contemporary life and a desire to reclaim the female body. -
Tue 14 Jan 2020
BALOJI: Live
Belgian-Congolese musician Baloji performs live alongside a programme of his genre-bending music videos. -
Tue 14 Jan 2020
CAN A DOOR BE FASCIST?
What effect does the historical context of a building, a location, or even a song have on our experience of it? -
Wednesday 15th
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Wed 15 Jan 2020
BLACK AUDIO VISIONS: Transforming The Gaze Through Sound
Through the lenses of pan-African cinema-makers, we explore the auditory experience of ‘listening’ to a film. -
Thursday 16th
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Thu 16 Jan 2020
EUROPEANS: Dramas From a Divided Union
While British politics is dominated by a divisive Brexit, what are the themes consuming other EU countries? -
Thu 16 Jan 2020
WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN
An ensemble of performers from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire and special guests revisit the rebellious undercurrents of early ‘80s London and the ‘systems music’ scene -
Friday 17th
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Fri 17 Jan 2020
HOW TO DEAF
Now a yearly staple, these short films meditate on the D/deaf experience. -
Fri 17 Jan 2020
ASMR: Senses Working Overtime
Exploring the divisive online phenomena of ASMR through moving image, dance and gender performativity. -
Fri 17 Jan 2020
NO FACT OF BLACKNESS
Contemporary artists draw from black British lineages and play with conventional notions of experimental filmmaking. -
Fri 17 Jan 2020
FLESH & FLUIDS
Through the work of four artist filmmakers, we take an unflinching look at the human body. -
Saturday 18th
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Sat 18 Jan 2020
BALOJI: The Future is Ours
Short films exploring experimental, contemporary African cinema, curated by filmmaker-musician Baloji. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
TANGLED ROOTS: The Origins of Black Metal
Music videos, archive interviews and documentary outtakes -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
PUBLIC INTIMACIES: Talking to Myself
This programme looks to diaristic articulations of self and the literal form of women ‘talking aloud’. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
PUBLIC INTIMACIES: Autoethnography as Refusal
Illustrated lectures explore how lived experience and academic inquiry can reclaim spaces mediated by whiteness. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
PUBLIC INTIMACIES: Anne Charlotte Robertson
Over the course of nearly two decades, Anne Charlotte Robertson obsessively produced the now renowned Five Year Diary. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
THE BODIES BENEATH: Weird, Wonderful Short Films From Before The 1960s
A time capsule of the strange and forgotten moving image work of yesteryear. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
CLOSING NIGHT: LSFF 2020 Awards + Party
Join us as we bring this year's festival to a close, celebrating the diversity of talent in new short filmmaking. -
Sat 18 Jan 2020
HUSTLE WITH MY MUSCLE: The Short Films of Tom Rubnitz
Music videos, performances and oddities from Rubnitz’s all too brief career. -
Sunday 19th
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Sun 19 Jan 2020
PUBLIC INTIMACIES: Correspondences: A Programme of Films by Alia Syed
Curator Jemma Desai presents a selection of works from British experimental filmmaker Alia Syed. -
Sun 19 Jan 2020
RECOLLECTIVE RESISTANCE: Part 1 + Kamal Aljafari Q&A
Kamal Aljafari's hybrid documentary follows the story of his family after they receive an order from the Israeli government to evacuate their home. -
Sun 19 Jan 2020
PUBLIC INTIMACIES: Profession: Documentarist
Seven independent female filmmakers talk about their relationship to their sense of nationhood and work as documentarians. -
Sun 19 Jan 2020
PLATFORM: Wong Ping
The crude, grotesque and political of Hong Kong artist-animator Wong Ping. -
Sun 19 Jan 2020
RECOLLECTIVE RESISTANCE: Part 2 + Kamal Aljafari Q&A
Kamal Aljafari’s experimental work, Recollection, bears witness to the destruction, repopulation, and gentrification of Jaffa.