Short Ends
Occasionally updated short odds and ends by Mike Paterson.
Astrotagging
A short piece for the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to explain an innovative new celestial mapping tool for the astronomy community. Produced with animator and PFILM collaborator Jim Le Fevre.
The Question Box
A short promotional film for TED about the Question Box project, a California-based NGO with a fantastic way to help people from communities with no access to information technology make informed decisions about their lives. The footage was filmed researching a future PFILM project in India — watch this space!
Time to Talk
An extract from a DVD produced for Multistory, a multi-disciplinary arts organization in the UK. The DVD follows the work of numerous artists in primary schools across the West Midlands. This short montage was used as a promotional piece for the project.
Tipton — The Sandwell Project
An extract from another project for Multistory exploring 6 communities in the West Midlands, a region in the UK which has seen many of its' tradional industries disappear.
The Referee
"A beautifully photographed short about a Ukrainian migrant called Nikolai who officiates at Sunday League football matches on London's Hackney Marshes. Across that green expanse he runs and, for ninety minutes, he reigns. The rain beats down. Furious Turkish players yell at him. In the changing room, talking to fellow officials, he rues how costly it is to travel home and about the corruption that he might find there. He radiates authority, but isolation too. The film is over all too quickly, but it lingers in the imagination, reminiscent in its mood and milieu of Tony Richardson The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and of Wim Wenders's The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty Kick" — The Daily Telegraph. Commissioned by Film London.
Night Bus
Completed as part of a Masters degree in documentary film, 'Night Bus' explores, well, the world of the London night bus. 'Night Bus' was nominated for numerous awards at film festivals around the world.
