An Evening of Shorts

Film Notes

 

Title   Director   Year Length Synopsis       Joe’s Tornado Mark Hammett 2019 11 min Joe receives a phone call                from a man claiming to be his future self.  The Beach House Richard Naylor 2019 10 min Two friends plan to “double propose”              but their girlfriends have other ideas. Say Goodbye John Roberts 1989 26 min Based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut.                     The Nest   Hlynur Palmason 2022 22 min A charming film from Iceland about               the building of a tree house.   Doughnut   Liam White . 2021 14 min During an ice breaker session for     / Larry Ketang      a new Amateur Dramatics group. Wine Lake Platon Theodoris 2019 10 min A homeless acoholic and an artistic              backpacker clash on a Sydney Street.  New Boy   Steph Green 2007 11 min From a short story by Roddy Doyle.                Captures the experience of being the new kid in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine year-old African boy.

 

What you thought about An Evening of Shorts

Film Responses

Excellent	Good	Average	Poor	Very Poor
52 (58%)	31 (34%)	6 (7%)	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
Total Number of Responses: 90 Film Score (0-5): 4.49

Collated Response Comments

The Evening of shorts was attended by 102 members and guests with 90 giving a response. This is an 88% response rate. Thanks so much everyone.

A special word of thanks also to Maxine for curating a fabulous evening and to Mark Hammett and John Roberts for coming along to introduce their films.

This is the ranking that resulted from your scores.

New Boy 4.49; The Beach House 4.4; Say Goodbye 4.27; Wine Lake 4.16; Doughnut 4.02; Joe’s Tornado 3.87; The Nest 3.82;

All the comments and full scores are shown below.

"An unexpectedly excellent evening's viewing. Some good ideas executed with panache where a lack of budget and experience is compensated for by the vigour and humour of the approach - 'Joe's Tornado', 'The Beach House' and 'Doughnut'. Two that are good but flawed - I don't find the characters reactions entirely convincing in 'Say Goodbye' and the outcome of 'Wine Lake' is pretty predictable. One nicely done but perhaps could sacrifice a little of the production values for a bit of the fizz of the three above - 'The New Boy'. Lovely finale though. The winner for me though is 'The Nest'. So simple but so complex, it invites you to flesh out all the characters and their lives from the fragments shown. Less is more. Superb".

“Great evening. Say Goodbye was a particular high point of the evening. Doughnut made me laugh and Wine Lake made me cry!”

“I loved this evening. Fun. You should do this early in the season so that people can interact with each other rather than just watch a film and leave”

“Varied selection and all enjoyable. Didn’t like Say Goodbye as it appeared top be about stalking and unrealistic”.

“Excellent films. Thank you”. “Some great plot lines and storytelling”.

“All the films were excellent. The subject sometimes made it difficult to judge the technical points. but really interesting”.

“What a great collection of shorts. All very different and excellent for different reasons – not a bad one among them. Please do it again!!”

“Great selection of different films. Amazing what can be packed into 10mins of film! Thanks”.

“Say Goodbye – wondered where my wedding dress ended up!! The Nest – really enjoyed from start to finish”.

“JT – felt unfinished or unexplained; BH – speech not always clear. Professional acting. SG – held up well. TN – incoherent – aroused no emotion. D – Thought provoking – well done. WL – Amusing and thought provoking, realistic, well-acted”.

“All very good films great choice and varied”.

“BH – Cleverley done. SG – Reminded me of my Liverpool roots. The script and locations”.

“An interesting evening. Would like to see more shorts”.

“Excellent programme; the whole was more than the sum of its parts. A riveting evening”. “A varied and interesting evening and all the films were very good and as often is the case with shorts, thought provoking”.

“All interesting films. Sometimes the quality of the sound made it difficult but content was thought provoking”.

“A really enjoyable evening. A good mix of films. Hopefully it will be repeated”.

“A very enjoyable evening – a great mix of different situations and cultures. I found every film thoroughly absorbing”.

“I really enjoyed this evening of short films – more of the same another time please? Fascinating selection of films – some more compelling than others. Say goodbye – excellent and outstanding”.

Film Responses

Joe’s Tornado

Excellent	Good	Average	Poor	Very Poor
15 (17%)	53 (59%)	17 (19%)	5 (6%)	0 (0%)
Total Number of Responses: 90 Film Score (0-5): 3.87

The Beach House

Excellent	Good	Average	Poor	Very Poor
44 (49%)	38 (42%)	8 (9%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Total Number of Responses: 90 Film Score (0-5): 4.40

Say Goodbye

Excellent	Good	Average	Poor	Very Poor
40 (44%)	35 (39%)	14 (16%)	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
Total Number of Responses: 90 Film Score (0-5): 4.27

The Nest

Excellent	Good	Average	Poor	Very Poor
27 (30%)	28 (31%)	27 (30%)	8 (9%)	0 (0%)
Total Number of Responses: 90 Film Score (0-5): 3.82

Doughnut

Excellent	Good	Average	Poor	Very Poor
30 (33%)	36 (40%)	20 (22%)	4 (4%)	0 (0%)
Total Number of Responses: 90 Film Score (0-5): 4.02

Wine Lake

Excellent	Good	Average	Poor	Very Poor
39 (43%)	29 (32%)	19 (21%)	3 (3%)	0 (0%)
Total Number of Responses: 90 Film Score (0-5): 4.16

New Boy

Excellent	Good	Average	Poor	Very Poor
52 (58%)	31 (34%)	6 (7%)	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
Total Number of Responses: 90 Film Score (0-5): 4.49