British short films are awful - BFI London Film Festival Report

We report on the British shorts at this years BFI London Film Festival including, MOTHER OF MINE by Jesse Lewis-Reece, STRANGERS by Rob Price, AREA BOY by Iggy London, ESSEX GIRLS by Yero Timi-Biu, SOUTH FACING by Reneque Samuels and THE SINGER by Cora Bissett.
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[@OFFICIALBrawl]

absolutely on the money with this, BFI shorts are getting more and more grating every year

[@sneakersville728]

In you guys opinions what can these guys do to amend their mistakes ? Also what do you guys believe that makes a film ?

[@returntoformpod]

We speak about this often imo. But Manny Farber is good to lean on - his conception of 'termite art', which has been glossed as: 'how someone maneuvers inside a restricted terrain and how they problematize every part of it'.
these films aren't eating their own terrain; they're not interested in film _as_ film, or in the role of film itself to tell (and to 'problematize') the 'story'. Instead, they're just scripts that play out in front of a camera.
In these specific cases, idk - the stories are over-ripe - too beholden to idpol, too neat, too unamniguous, and very artificial in the wrong way (all film is artifice, but these films are just confected). Trite even, I suppose.

[@returntoformpod]

off the top of my head, we always refer to Ivanyi's 'Wind' (1996) as a perfect short film
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[@ellakeeling]

"Promo SM" 😣