Award-Winning Short Film: Turning

Through the eyes of a child
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A Short film by karni and saul
Nominated Best Short Film, BAFTA Film Awards 2011
Read interview here: collabor8te.com

Also check out trailer to our NEW short film “Flytopia” based on the Will Self story.
A film4/creative England film
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Turning synopsis
On his birthday, Robert receives three beautiful old birds in his mother’s sitting room. Through his eyes, we visit the memory of this afternoon…tea is sipped , and between knobbly knees strange visions appear. The ladies weave an extraordinary tale of an emperor with no skin, and the boy himself, older and wiser, adds the finale… with a tail.

Produced as part of BBC Film Network’s BBC Drama Shorts 2009 commission, in conjunction with Lighthouse Arts & Training and BBC Writersroom.

Screened on BBC HD as part of BBC HD Film Shorts

Crew

Director Karni and Saul
Writer Karni and Saul
Writer Lynda Sexson (Based on a short story by)
Producer Kat Armour-Brown and Alison Sterling
Director Of Photography Ben Moulden
Editor Kate Owen
Production Designer Benjamin J. Ansell
Production Assistant Emily Duggan
Assistant Director Bailey Marks
Costume Designer Maggie Chappelhow
Makeup Artist Jacqueline Russon
Sound Designer Steve Single
Sound Recordist Rob Saunders & Neil Sherman
Casting Sasha Robertson & Maddy Hinton
Gaffer Grip Geoff Holloway & James Holloway
Stills Photographer Tanya Moulson
Cast

RobertPatrick Gibbs
MumNatasha Alderslade
OliviaMaureen Wild
LouiseAudrey Holt
RuthCarol Kirkland
Girls in fieldAgnes Davidson, Emily Duggan, Inma Azorin, Lily Mai Holloway
Funded By

Made with the support of BBC Film Network
Production Partner - Lighthouse Arts & Training
Development Partner - BBC Writersroom

Selected Festivals & Screenings

Curtocircuito, Santiago de Compostela festival, Spain, 2011
Narkolepsy, France, 2011
Aspen Short Film Festival, 2011
Palm Springs Short Film Festival, 2011
CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival?, Toronto, 2011
Clermont-Ferrand, 2011
Berlin International Film Festival, 2010
Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2010
LA Shortsfest, 2010
Encounters International Film Festival, 2010
onedotzero (touring festival), 2010
Brest European Short Film Festival, 2010
Awards
Best Film Award (Explora competition), Curtocircuito, Santiago de Compostela festival, 2011

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22 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 1:27:36pm

This film is a real trip.

2 FemNaziBitch  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 1:31:36pm

Lastest Paranoia from my fb:

Obamacare To Allow Forced Home Invasions

I’m not posting the link. Google it if you want to.

3 Eclectic Cyborg  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 1:36:12pm

re: #2 FemNaziBitch

Lastest Paranoia from my fb:

I’m not posting the link. Google it if you want to.

The origin of the story is Dim Hoft. That about says it.

4 thedopefishlives  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 1:46:57pm

Afternoon Lizardim.

5 FemNaziBitch  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 1:49:48pm

Turning or Tripping?

Very thought provoking film.

6 FemNaziBitch  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 1:51:53pm

bbl

7 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:06:38pm

re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg

The origin of the story is Dim Hoft. That about says it.

Hoft needs to have his invaded then he needs Pure Sanity poured up his ass.

8 thedopefishlives  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:06:59pm

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

Hoft needs to have his invaded then he needs Pure Sanity poured up his ass.

His body would reject it.

9 Amory Blaine  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:13:27pm
10 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:14:31pm

re: #8 thedopefishlives

His body would reject it.

There’s a risk of that, but even he explodes the world would still be better off.

11 simoom  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:14:39pm

I see Arstechnica finally corrected the Egypt/DC area code vingette from their write-up on the WaPo NSA auditing story (now that it’s nearly dropped off their front page so almost no one will see it). Meanwhile National Review built an entire Mark Styne editorial around it:

Idiot Big Brother
The prospect of NSA abuse is now a reality.

On Thursday, the Washington Post’s revelation of thousands upon thousands of National Security Agency violations of both the law and supposed privacy protections included this fascinating detail:

A “large number” of Americans had their telephone calls accidentally intercepted by the NSA when a top-secret order to eavesdrop on multiple phone lines for reasons of national security confused the international code for Egypt (20) with the area code for Washington (202).

Seriously.

I enjoy as much as the next chap all those Hollywood conspiracy thrillers about the all-powerful security state — you know the kind of thing, where the guy’s on the lam and he stops at a diner at a windswept one-stoplight hick burg in the middle of nowhere and decides to take the risk of making one 15-second call from the payphone, and as he dials the last digit there’s a click in a basement in Langley, and even as he’s saying hello the black helicopters are already descending on him. It’s heartening to know that, if I ever get taken out at a payphone, it will be because some slapdash timeserving pen-pusher mistyped the code for Malaysia (60) as that of New Hampshire (603).

The Egypt/Washington industrial-scale wrong number is almost too perfectly poignant a vignette at the end of a week in which hundreds are dead on the streets of Cairo.

Almost too perfect… yeah, that might be because it didn’t happen.

Maybe they could just have NSA customer-service representatives announcing that your call may be monitored for quality-control purposes at the start of every telephone conversation. Of course, most customer-service representatives are based in India (telephone code 91) but there’s a sporting chance the NSA would confuse it with Kansas (code 913), which could do wonders for the employment rate.

It being National Review you also need to toss in some Benghazi:

It’s easier to crack down on 47 Elm Street than Benghazi.

And some “IRS-gate” + “Obamacare”:

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that the IRS is continuing to target American citizens according to their political ideology — and that’s before they have your Obamacare records to frolic and gambol in.

But, like Obama says, it’s merely a theoretical “prospect” of abuse. You’d have to be paranoid to think it could actually happen …

Finally, Steyn demonstrates that not only has he not seen the corrected version of the WaPo story, but he also hasn’t read Sen. Feinstein’s response:

What does that leave? Congressional oversight? Senator Dianne Feinstein said that she had not seen the 2012 NSA audit on its 2,776 legal violations until the Washington Post asked her about it. Which means until Edward Snowden brought it to her attention. So she’s just another rubber stamp, too. Most nations that spy on their own citizens manage to make do with one fig leaf of accountability, but in money-no-object Washington there are fig leaves without end.

12 thedopefishlives  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:14:54pm

re: #10 Dark_Falcon

There’s a risk of that, but even he explodes the world would still be better off.

The point is well taken.

13 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:16:16pm

re: #11 simoom

That’s Steyn’s style: Rag on the government, calling it overbearing and pitiful at the same time.

14 HappyWarrior  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:16:27pm

re: #9 Amory Blaine

A Day in the Life of the Ku Klux Klan, Uncensored

The one with the imperial wizard’s granddaughter is the most striking. You see that and you wonder what kind of woman will she grow up to be. You hope she’d reject the worldview of her parents and grandparents but one has to be cynical since after all her parents presumably born after the intiial part of the Civil Rights Movement did not overcome the bigotry.

15 HappyWarrior  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:23:44pm

As someone whose family moved south of the Mason-Dixon line, I’ll never understood why we have so many people who are still in their heads re-fighting the Civil War. This April marked 148 years since Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appamatox. Most of my family was in Europe at that time but I did have one relative in the U.S at the time who served the Union proud. I just don’t get it. The CSA being defeated was a wonderful thing. Who knows if we could have defeated Hitler if the Union had remained divided. Who knows if the USSR would have fallen in a divided America. Lincoln had it right when he quoted the bible when he said a house divided on itself cannot stand. That there are large numbers of people in this country who romance arguably the most divisive and violent part of our history is something I’ll never get as long as I live. I get being proud of great great grandpa who fought bravely at Antietam but I do not get celebrating his cause as if it were noble especially here in 2013 when we have a man of African decent, a people the leaders of the CSA said flat out they could never regard as equal to the white man as our nation’s president. To me honestly, whenever I see a Confederate flag on a vehicle or on a home, it does make me wonder about the person waving it. I don’t automatically assume they’re a bigot but I do wonder about their intellect but more important their sanity that they wish to celebrate a society whose sole purpose was to preserve human chattel.

16 Stanley Sea  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:31:02pm

re: #14 HappyWarrior

The one with the imperial wizard’s granddaughter is the most striking. You see that and you wonder what kind of woman will she grow up to be. You hope she’d reject the worldview of her parents and grandparents but one has to be cynical since after all her parents presumably born after the intiial part of the Civil Rights Movement did not overcome the bigotry.

2nd time I looked at it, just noticed the guy with his bride to be has the biggest shiner. He got in some fight.

What a mess those people are.

17 Mattand  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:32:10pm

re: #15 HappyWarrior

As someone whose family moved south of the Mason-Dixon line, I’ll never understood why we have so many people who are still in their heads re-fighting the Civil War. This April marked 148 years since Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appamatox. Most of my family was in Europe at that time but I did have one relative in the U.S at the time who served the Union proud. I just don’t get it. The CSA being defeated was a wonderful thing. Who knows if we could have defeated Hitler if the Union had remained divided. Who knows if the USSR would have fallen in a divided America. Lincoln had it right when he quoted the bible when he said a house divided on itself cannot stand. That there are large numbers of people in this country who romance arguably the most divisive and violent part of our history is something I’ll never get as long as I live. I get being proud of great great grandpa who fought bravely at Antietam but I do not get celebrating his cause as if it were noble especially here in 2013 when we have a man of African decent, a people the leaders of the CSA said flat out they could never regard as equal to the white man as our nation’s president. To me honestly, whenever I see a Confederate flag on a vehicle or on a home, it does make me wonder about the person waving it. I don’t automatically assume they’re a bigot but I do wonder about their intellect but more important their sanity that they wish to celebrate a society whose sole purpose was to preserve human chattel.

Yeah, pretty much this. I basically equate flying the Stars and Bars as putting a huge ass billboard on your house that says: “I’m either a racist and proud of it, or in complete denial about the main cause of the Civil War.”

The fact that most of these people who still fly the fucking thing are conservatives/Republicans speaks volumes of how messed up the party is about race.

18 abolitionist  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:36:19pm

re: #9 Amory Blaine

A Day in the Life of the Ku Klux Klan, Uncensored

Noticed a smallish sat dish in one of the pics (11.jpg) — An imperial officer (right) from a Midwestern-based Ku Klux Klan realm at the home of his imperial wizard and wife (left), shortly before departing for a Christmas party held for members at a local church

Until I saw that, I thot the pics were much older. [edit] Quote:

To gain access into the Klan, Karen initially reached out to members through contact information on websites via phone calls and emails. His began photographing a Klan event in 2005, and after earning the trust of the members, he was allowed to photograph without restriction.

19 Lidane  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:41:06pm

re: #17 Mattand

Yeah, pretty much this. I basically equate flying the Stars and Bars as putting a huge ass billboard on your house that says: “I’m either a racist and proud of it, or in complete denial about the main cause of the Civil War.”

In my experience, the idiots who fly the Stars and Bars have fallen for the bullshit that the Civil War was fought over states’ rights and that intrusive gubmint won.

Never mind that the right these states were fighting for was the right to own another human being as property. It’s all about states’ rights, don’tcha know.

The fact that most of these people who still fly the fucking thing are conservatives/Republicans speaks volumes of how messed up the party is about race.

Oh, but the Democrats are the racists, didn’t you know? The Republican party eradicated racism in the 1960’s.

20 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:42:43pm

re: #9 Amory Blaine

Strange factoid about my farm that was in the hands of one family for almost 200 years before I bought the main house and the surrounding 200 +/- acres:
Before, during and after the Civil War it was a bustling community that sheltered escaping slaves (and, yes, there were still slaves even after the Emancipation Proclamation). I have a survey map from the 1800s that actually shows many of the old homesites.
Fast forward to the early to mid 1900s: one of the matriarchs of said family was one of the founders of the local KKK chapter.
Still trying to wrap my mind around how that happened…

21 A Mom Anon  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 2:45:43pm

re: #18 abolitionist

Nope. There’s a small business in a little town near me that’s a KKK front. Right smack in the middle of a “historical downtown area”. On certain nights of the week you can see people going in and out of the place carrying their hoods and robes in dry cleaning bags going in and out. The place has a sign on the front door that says “White History Year” and you can buy copies as well as originals of photos of lynchings that have been made into postcards. The owner has received civic awards for his little reenactment summer camps for kids held at a National Battlefield in the area. There’s a guy about a 1/2 mile down the street from me who flied the old state flag that has the Confederate flag featured as most of the flag. Guess where he buys those? From the aforementioned civic awarded business man. This crap is alive and well all over the South and most of the time it’s just accepted as part of life here. In this case, if you challenged this guy, I have no doubt at ALL that you would find a cross burning on your yard and you’d be followed and harassed. It’s how they roll and it’s got worse since that Black Guy had the audacity to get elected a couple of times. Hell, some of the town cops are the ones wearing the robes in their spare time.

(edited to add) This ain’t backwoods GA either, it’s in one of the wealthier counties outside of Atlanta.

22 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Aug 17, 2013 3:35:01pm

re: #15 HappyWarrior

To me honestly, whenever I see a Confederate flag on a vehicle or on a home, it does make me wonder about the person waving it. I don’t automatically assume they’re a bigot but I do wonder about their intellect but more important their sanity that they wish to celebrate a society whose sole purpose was to preserve human chattel.

I’ve lived in the south most of my life.

Believe me, when you see that flag waved from a car, a house, on a belt buckle, anywhere, it’s a bigot waving it.


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