- Tickets on sale now for first UK Indy Film Library screening, hosted at London’s The Garden Cinema from 17:30 on February 25th 2024
- Selection includes David Gregory’s supernatural horror ‘Black Shuck‘, Meena Ayittey’s mental health thriller ‘Validity‘, and Hans Dessers’ haunting family drama ‘Always Summer‘
Indy Film Library (IFL) is partnering with myDylarama to host a screening in London. The event will celebrate the very best work from filmmakers based in the UK, which IFL has received since it launched.
Tickets are now on sale via The Garden Cinema’s website.
Opened in March 2022, The Garden Cinema screens films of all shapes and sizes, from around the world. The venue is fiercely independent, and consistently looks outside the box to screen films its statement of intent defines as “worth seeing”, “of all genres that are true to life, well made, that left us feeling better or wiser for having seen them.” On that basis, IFL couldn’t have found a better venue to finally host its first UK short film showcase.
Speaking ahead of the event, Kino Lee, one of the directors to be showcased, commented, “From my aunt’s bathtub in Taiwan to screening in London, Huo Zhe has definitely come a long way! Bringing personal life experience into symbolism and abstraction, I hope Huo Zhe will be able to connect with people and that they might find their own interpretation of the meaning of living.”
Felix Davidson, whose work will also be on show, added, “I truly feel that there is a level of understanding between artist and audience which can only be achieved by first exposing some deeply personal aspect of yourself. A culture of vulnerability and honesty in production, consumption, and judgement – a culture supported in part by organisations like IFL – encourages not only a world of connection built on the acknowledgement of both shared and unique experience, but also reintroduces a degree of softness and warmth into what feels like an increasingly cold artistic sphere.”
Beginning at 5:30pm on Sunday the 25th of February, IFL’s programme of films is as follows:
Black Shuck (2021)
Dir. David Gregory
Huo Zhe [Living] (2020)
Dir. Kino Lee
Validity (2019)
Dir. Meena Ayittey
Isolation Terminal (2023)
Dir. Paula Romero
Brown Bread (2021)
Dir. Felix Davidson
Where Am I? (2019)
Dir. Cheng Qiu
People Who Pretend to be Crows in Their Spare Time (2019)
Dir. Will Priddis
Always Summer (2023)
Dir. Hans Dessers
Off Peak (2020)
Dir. Jesse Adlem