November Operations a Success!

Last Tuesday saw a great international crowd at the 3rd Branchage Short Film Surgery.

The audience in the plush environs of The Hospital Club screening room (including visiting filmmakers from Australia and India), were treated to a varied selection of films, each critiqued, mulled-over and discussed in turn by the Branchage Surgeons.

The chosen films were In Limbo, a ‘Lynchian’ psychological time-collapsing short fiction; Joseph, a doc profiling a man (and his dog); Seven For A Secret, a meditative observational short; and Left, an almost dialogue-free hangover horror!

Watch these four shorts on the ‘Previous Patients’ page under November.

What I really noticed about this surgery, was how much advice the surgeons were able to give each filmmaker about approaching future projects, and also about possible places for exhibition.  With a filmmaker, film critic and festival programmer on the panel, there was such a broad range of advice on offer, and I noticed more than one audience member busy scribbling down notes during the evening!

So, to conclude, the operation was a success and the recovery period was relatively painless too – just took until closing time at the pub opposite in fact.

Thanks to Branchage Surgeons, Filmmakers, The Hospital Club, Shooting People, and the Shooting People creative director James Mullighan for his consummate hosting skills.

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