Tom Simmons
Bathysphere
Dir. Michaela Nettell
Copyright 2007 RCA
5m36s
Based on the prose-poem Bathysphere by: Andrew McDonnell
Director of Photography: Emma Dalesman
Sound: Tom Simmons
Voice: Susan Crothers
Underwater Girl: Cornelia O’Donovan
Ghostly light projections captured within delicate glass bubbles
Describing a strange, subconscious world where our memories and daydreams lie.
Real, unreal.
Imagined, re-imagined, distorted.
Telling tales of our selves and our lives; a different tale each time.
This world is an underwater place - dark, unknown and exquisite
A place where past and present collide.
Screenings & shortlists include:
Shortlisted (Best UK Short Film) East End Film Festival, London (2008)
700.IS Experimental Film Festival, Egilsstadir, Iceland (2008)
Prix de la Création Vidéo 2008, VIDEOFORMES Festival of Video and New Media in Contemporary Art, Clermont-Ferand, France (2008)
1st Waterford Film Festival, Waterford, Ireland (2007)
Group B Competition, 11th International Underwater Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia (2007)
zwergWERK, 7th Oldenburger Kurzfilmtage, Oldenburg, Germany (2007)
Filmstock International Film Festival, Luton, UK (2007)
Balkanima European Animated Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia (2007)
Shot by the Sea Film Festival: PROJECTION SPACE, Hastings, UK (2007)
Also exhibited in:
1% Water, z33, Hasselt, Belgium (2008)
Bombay Sapphire Prize Exhibition, Salone del Mobile International Furniture Fair, Milan (2008)
Form: DNA, Olympia, London (2008)
Simon Wright's Window Gallery, 10 Walcot Buildings, Bath, UK (2007)
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