5 SHORT FILMS

When it became clear that LIMF’21 couldn’t run as a live event, we invited five artists to create a series of short films for our online festival. The commissioning brief was to create a work lasting between 3-10 minutes that wasn’t driven by spoken text, but otherwise giving complete freedom over subject matter and style. Five Short Films is the result, featuring Jacqui Beckford, Andrew Dawson, Gavin Glover, Kristin & Davy McGuire and Toby Sedgwick.Whilst four artists were creating entirely new work, we asked BSL interpreter Jacqui Beckford to reprise her signing of Nothing Compares 2U from Kiss & Cry , a production staged at the Barbican as part of LIMF 2017. Happily its co-director, Belgian film-maker Jaco Van Dormael, offered us his beautiful, atmospheric, black and white footage, which we were delighted to accept.

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“The annual LIMF offers an online bonanza. There are five short films, including an exquisite account of the Prince song Nothing Compares 2U, relayed in British Sign Language, a wondrous pole-dance by Kristin McGuire, and new work from multimedia artists Davy and Kristin McGuire. There’s also a video vault of past productions, drawn from France, Italy, Belgium and Russia, in happier times.”