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FACT
presented a showcase of short films all apart of Dada Festival, there
was a range of talent Beacon Hill Arts award winning shorts presented funny
witty shorts created entirely by the group. There were a couple of menacing
pieces by Mickee Faust Club (Founded by Donna Marie Nudd and Terry Galloway) which really critically attacked the role of
charities which I thought were right on and refreshing look. Her "PERFORMANCE OF DROWNING" (2011) piece was shown as a short animation which was just as captivating
as the first time. There was also a really dark short of a deaf and blind girl
being practically drown by her Irish Catholic Mother in her desperate attempts
to make the girl say the word ‘water’ including sticking her head in a toilet
and locking her in cage with dripping water, as awful as it sounds I nearly
pee’d it was so funny. My favourite pieces were FEAST by Pauline Morel a beautiful dance short
which was staged in different time periods set within Gloucestershire’s Berkely
Castle. The piece is a mesh of drama at the dining table.
The last was an
unlimited commission called Macropolis by Joel Simon an endearing stopmotion
tale of two reject toys a cat and dog really a superb animation really worth a watch, here is a review good review by disability arts online.
