Kino Filmmaker – Oliver Smyth

Posted by on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 at 6:09 pm.

Thoughts

Supergoths, written by Wendy Bevan-Mogg and directed by Oliver Smyth

At Kino we’re pretty resolutely without favourites. The totally open-door policy of our night puts everyone on an equal footing, and we’ve always thought that’s pretty important. Anyone can screen at Kino, as long as they’re happy to stick their neck out and say “I made this”, which by my reckoning, over 200 people have done since we got going last year!

That said, there’s certainly some films that have made an impression, and some filmmakers who always seem to be able to pull it out of the bag, so to speak. Oliver Smyth first screened with us in December, with perhaps the funniest Christmas-themed short I’ve ever seen. Not the wierdest, by a long way (those are normally about murder) but anyone who didn’t smile whilst watching this must be a little, well, hard. I’ll no doubt take the opportunity to do another posting about it when December comes round again, because it has to be watched when the Christmas tree’s up.

Well, Oliver Smyth is back with his latest at Kino #19 this week. He’s a bit shy about it he tells me, as it’s a little more personal than his other shorts – we’ll see what that means on Thursday I guess.

In the meantime, here’s the last ouevre that Oli brought down to Kino, back in the spring. Written by Wendy Bevan-Mogg, and directed by Oli, Supergoths stars sometime Kino-MC Lewis Georgeson as an arrogant TV anchor in search of Goths with special abilities in Leeds (“that’s in the north of England“). It’s full of nice touches, like the ever put-upon camerman, the cat (you’ll see) and the deceptively simple way in which it’s put-together (which is actually weeks and weeks of post-production).

It’s split into 3 parts, so part 1 is at the top of this post, and parts 2 and 3 underneath. Enjoy. And if you like it, come to Kino on Thursday to see Oli’s latest. I hear that a collaboration with Kino regular ANGRYDAN is on it’s way too. Very exciting.

Supergoths – Part 2

Supergoths – Part 3