We’re showcasing the short films produced through the SSFX project, hearing from the filmmakers involved. Ali Jennings and Jess Hammett discuss NOISE.

A secretive woman opens herself up to her unruly housemate, after they are stuck together in her room.

We’re showcasing the short films produced through the SSFX project, hearing from the filmmakers involved. Simon Rattigan discusses Names and Numbers.

A sound and voice collage shaped by the sounds of space and Morse code, addressing the external, physical and material experiences of sound and movement contrasted with interior reflections, explored through language, inner voices and symbols.

We’re showcasing the short films produced through the SSFX project, hearing from the filmmakers involved. Adam Azmy discusses Murmurs of a Macrocosm.

A journey through a microscopic world. We are led via the descriptive recordings of those who travelled it.

SSFX will be at the next Space Lates at the National Space Centre in Leicester on Saturday 13 January 2018. In the venue’s Shuttle Suites at 7pm we’ll host screenings of a selection of our short films featuring the sounds of space and hear from the scientists and filmmakers behind the project.

The Space Lates evening will also feature astronaut training, stargazing, and other activities. Book a place now.

We’re showcasing the short films produced through the SSFX project, hearing from the filmmakers involved. Jesseca Ynez Simmons and Collin Susich discuss DARK MATTER(S).

This experimental and meditative imagining attempts to capture the activities of a fish tank in a way that takes the inhabitants out of their enclosed world, to a place unknown, to feel both their death and their life.

We’re showcasing the short films produced through the SSFX project, hearing from the filmmakers involved. James Uren and Nidhi Gupta discuss Astroturf.

A meticulous young man tends to his fake garden to the sounds of deep space.

Missed out on the SSFX Short Film Festival back in September 2017? Not to worry because the short films will be touring the UK (and some international venues also), having been made freely available to independent cinemas, film festivals, and clubs or societies.  Get in touch for details of how to screen, all we ask is that you let us know which films you show and to how many people.

Select SSFX shorts are being screened at the following events and locations:

• 20/05/2017         IN|DUST|REAL, Oradea, Romania
• 27/06/2017         Grand Concourse Film Screening Series, New York, USA
• 28/08/2017         AM Egypt Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt
• 01/10/2017         Les Films de la Toile, Paris, France
• 10/11/2017         Viten Film Festival, Bergen, Norway
• 21/03/2018         Shorts on Tap, London, UK
• 21/04/2018         Space – Music & Film inspired by the cosmos, London, UK
• 22/04/2018         East End Film Festival, Rio Cinema, London, UK
• 26/04/2018         Academia Film Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• 25/05/2018         Escape Velocity 2018, Maryland, USA
• 31/05/2018         SCInema International Film Festival, Adelaide, Australia
• 31/05/2018         Nightstar Cinema, Belair House, Dulwich, London, UK
• 06/06/2018         SCInema International Film Festival, Brisbane, Australia
• 07/06/2018         SCInema International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
• 13/06/2018         SCInema International Film Festival, Canberra, Australia
• 14/06/2018         SCInema International Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
• 21/06/2018         SCInema International Film Festival, Perth, Australia
• 05/07/2018         South London Shorts, London, UK
• 26/07/2018         Nightstar Cinema, Belair House, Dulwich, London, UK
• 31/07/2018         Rooftop Film Club, Bussey Building, Peckham, London, UK
• 11-19/08/2018 SCInema Community Screenings, Australia
• 30/08/2018         Nightstar Cinema, Belair House, Duwich, London, UK
• 14/09/2018         Nightstar Cinema, Highcliffe Castle, Dorset, UK
• 14/10/2018         Liverpool Film Festival, Liverpool, UK
• 15/10/2018         Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, USA
• 19/10/2018         Southampton International Film Festival, Southampton, UK
• 26/10/2018         Cambridge Film Festival, Cambridge, UK
• 01/11/2018         South London Shorts, London, UK
• 08/11/2018         Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
• 11/01/2019         London Short Film Festival, London, UK

We will also have some special SSFX events too:

• 13/01/2018         Space Lates, Leicester, UK
• 12-17/02/2018 SMASHfest UK, London, UK
• 28/03/2018         SSFX The Anthology Film Premiere & Exhibition, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
• 16/04/2018         Genesis Cinema, London, UK
• 17/05/2018         Central Film School, London, UK
• 19/05/2018         Storyhouse, Chester, UK
• 08/07/2018         Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, London, UK
• 19/07/2018         Nozstock: The Hidden Valley festival, Hereford, UK
• 13/09/2018         Hull Truck Theatre, Hull, UK

Check out our trailer for what to expect at one of these events.