London Short Film Festival

Film editor Lisa Gunning (Seven Psychopaths, Nowhere Boy) has made her directing debut with a collection of films inspired by songs from Tales Of Us, the stunning new album from Goldfrapp. Tales Of Us is a 30 minute journey through the individual stories of Stranger, Laurel, Jo, Drew and Annabel, which interconnect subtly, sharing themes of love, loss, madness and identity to take

Ghost Box is a record label founded in 2004 that unites a small roster of creative talent with a common visual and sonic aesthetic. Inspired by an imagined and misremembered past, this musical and visual world is distinctly British in its sensibilities, condensing a cultural timeline from the early sixties through to the early eighties into one simultaneous and eerily familiar mome

As part of LSFF 2014, Beyond Clueless director Charlie Lyne spoke about films made entirely from other films, featuring a host of guest filmmakers and some bizarre audio-visual improvisation. We've removed most of the clips for legal reasons, but here are some of the showcased shorts available to watch elsewhere online: Kittens For Hitler by Ken Russell: http://www.youtube.com/watc

Journalist Danny Leigh spoke to novelist and filmmaker Chris Petit (Radio On, London Orbital), journalist and filmmaker Charlie Lyne (Ultra Culture, The Guardian), screenwriter, documentary producer and playwright Hannah Patterson, and Jonathan Romney, journalist and writer/director of BFI Short L’Assenza. Presented by Lighthouse in association with the BFI on 14 January 2014.

London-based German documentary filmmaker Eva Weber was the subject of this retrospective as part of LSFF 2014. After a screening of four acclaimed shorts, she spoke with Jenny Horwell about recording real-life conversations for Intimacy of Strangers, interviewing dozens of crane operators for The Solitary Life Of Cranes, and why sound is central to her filmmaking technique. She al

Two days after being nominated for a BAFTA for Sea View, writer and director Jane Linfoot joined LSFF for a special retrospective at the ICA. Speaking to host Fiona Fletcher, Jane spoke about her journey as a filmmaker via a lengthy production career, Thai hill tribes, and 3 self-funded shorts. She elaborated about her interest in mining the psyche of teenagers, her instinctive app

LSFF welcomed Irish filmmaker and No Wave icon Vivienne Dick to the ICA for a screening of her 1978 film She Had Her Gun All Ready, alongside the premiere of 2013's The Irreducible Difference of the Other. Afterwards she spoke to Selina (Club de Femmes) and Theresa (Open City Docs) about the idea of the 'other', the influence of Antonin Artaud in her new film, and the political und

Lara Akeju talks about Creative Diversity, Funding & Channel 4 Schemes

Brit Doc talk about funding documentaries

Fashion Popcorn Q&A