Trident Fest 2010 reviews
Review by on 23 Sep 2010
There is a stench in the air, the stench of filmmakers lurking in the shadows of Cambridge, and it smells goooood. They're back with something better than a vengeance, not entirely sure what it is, but it is immense none the less. The dream team of Simon and Andre create the film that brought the whole audience to tears of laughter caused by extreme amounts of fear with the almighty GASP. Rydian Cook makes going to get juice the stuff of nightmares and waiting for buses into poetry in JUICE? and WAITING... respectively (can you guess which is which?) Tom Martin puts a newer spin on the zombie complex with WHILE STOCKS LAST (meaning whoever tries to put an even newer spin on the zombie complex is now screwed), Carl Peck gives us a mouhtful of what is the future for Project Trident in BREAKFAST AT GOOGY'S, the prequel of the highly anticipated THE PURPLE FIEND. Christian Lapidge gives a bad name to the royal mail in BOXES (and freaks us all out with his acting as the employers in TEMPORARY WORK) and we're also introduced to the work of two London based filmmakers from London DARREN AND GREIG. Smiles and screams all round. This is the stuff that throws up on bad taste, in a good way. Bring on world domination… and ping pong balls.
Max Thompson
Max Thompson
Review by on 21 Sep 2010
Marauding zombies and psychotic bosses,
Villainous buses and monsters in boxes,
Lovesick computers and fruit juice that kills -
These are just some of my favourite films.
Villainous buses and monsters in boxes,
Lovesick computers and fruit juice that kills -
These are just some of my favourite films.
Review by on 19 Sep 2010
Loved TridentFest. Some hilarious shorts - especially loved 'Gasp!', haven't laughed so hard for ages! Look forward to seeing them online.
Review by on 19 Sep 2010
The projectionists and popcorn sellers of the Picturehouse aren’t just pallid faces – they are capricious devils with hidden moviemaking talents. TRIDENTFEST comprises short masterworks created by the flunkies unleashed, among them Welles-esque heart-throb Christian Lapidge; prolific musician Simon Panrucker; gentle poet Rydian Cook and the darling of the crew, Carl Peck.
In many cases, the initial production had ground to a frustrating halt, resulting in a brilliantly entertaining replacement piece brought to us fresh from the edit suite – for instance, Andrzej Sosnowski’s deft comic shocker GASP, featuring Panrucker as a living muppet demon. Lapidge’s CANARY was conceived as a grim, post-apocalyptic tale, which the director himself admitted had become an albatross around his neck – and so the final cut broke the third wall, taking us behind the scenes to the tortuous filmmaking process and descending into a surreal and technically impressive denouement.
Special effects techniques have improved since last year: we were treated to a perfect exploding head from the Cook brothers in JUICE? and a ghastly melting face from Lapidge in his jigsaw puzzle exploitation flick BOXES. Tom Martin’s WHILE STOCKS LAST riffed on the zombie genre in ways that would make Edgar Wright shudder, and Peck’s BREAKFAST AT GOOGY’S, a melding of HG Wells’ wit and Tarantino’s excess, is the prequel to his upcoming epic THE PURPLE FIEND.
TRIDENTFEST brings much needed comic relief to a surfeit of drama and documentary, and it’s not over yet – a second show is in the pipeline! Meanwhile, see what you missed at www.projecttrident.com.
Rosy Hunt
In many cases, the initial production had ground to a frustrating halt, resulting in a brilliantly entertaining replacement piece brought to us fresh from the edit suite – for instance, Andrzej Sosnowski’s deft comic shocker GASP, featuring Panrucker as a living muppet demon. Lapidge’s CANARY was conceived as a grim, post-apocalyptic tale, which the director himself admitted had become an albatross around his neck – and so the final cut broke the third wall, taking us behind the scenes to the tortuous filmmaking process and descending into a surreal and technically impressive denouement.
Special effects techniques have improved since last year: we were treated to a perfect exploding head from the Cook brothers in JUICE? and a ghastly melting face from Lapidge in his jigsaw puzzle exploitation flick BOXES. Tom Martin’s WHILE STOCKS LAST riffed on the zombie genre in ways that would make Edgar Wright shudder, and Peck’s BREAKFAST AT GOOGY’S, a melding of HG Wells’ wit and Tarantino’s excess, is the prequel to his upcoming epic THE PURPLE FIEND.
TRIDENTFEST brings much needed comic relief to a surfeit of drama and documentary, and it’s not over yet – a second show is in the pipeline! Meanwhile, see what you missed at www.projecttrident.com.
Rosy Hunt
Review by on 18 Sep 2010
It's great to see people with such imagination and passion putting their ideas onto film. Great films, extremely funny, clever. I would definitely recommend people to go to the second showing (if they have one). I am looking forward to what they produce next.
