Previous winners have already told you most of what is important when it comes to creating a (max.) 90 second short. Therefore I'd like to add an aspect which comes from me personally:
I'm a visual artist, not a narrative filmmaker. My themes deal with symbols, myths and visual signs from architecture, politics, films, or religions. My works are explorations of their meanings, a questioning, and creations of new associations. In order to undermine entrenched representations, I work directly with these symbols to develop them further and juxtapose them against new representations.
In a very short movie, you can take the chance to create something which is not narrative in the traditional sense; you don't need to tell a story, you don't even need words. Still you can create something with meaning, a movie with beginning, middle and end - for example in a symbolic and humourous way, like I did in my video ‘Ascension’ and in my animation ‘A Little Meditation’ (both 1 minute long), or in many different ways.
Since Brief Encounters '05, I've been busy creating new videos and animations, and showing them in several festivals and media art exhibitions. Following DepicT!, ‘Ascension’ was shown at 59 seconds festival, New York; The Bigger Picture project, public BBC screen, Manchester; Kinofilm, Manchester Int. Short Film Festival (competition); Paco das Artes, Museum for Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and as part of the project ‘Video Dictionary’ (curated by Manuel Saiz) at Centre d' Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain and Impakt festival, Utrecht, Netherlands. My current project is a participatory animation series: ‘Flag Metamorphoses’. To find out how to participate with or without knowledge of Flash, please visit my website.
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