What happens to all those films, made consistently throughout the history of cinema, which run to a length of 30–65 minutes, outside the usual parameters of comfortable screening as ‘short’ or ‘feature-length’ films? This unique and innovative event will showcase just some of the many excellent contemporary films that fall within this supposedly ‘problem length’, and interrogate the question of duration from the perspective of filmmakers and viewers, festival selectors and cinema programmers. In doing so it will illuminate the industrial constraints, from funding and commissioning to distribution and exhibition, that have marginalised films that simply take what time they need to achieve their ambitions. It also asks how the changing nature of film festival activity and alternative forms of dissemination of audio-visual material is allowing more filmmakers to produce works of varying lengths, and how these films may reach ever more literate and inquisitive audiences.

Film Programme 1.00pm
RENE (Tobias Nölle, Switzerland, 2007, 29 min)
BRUNO (Sam Goetz, USA, 2007, 34 min)
LIVIU’S DREAM (Corneliu Poromboiu, Romania, 2004, 45 min)

Panel discussion 3.45pm
‘The Problem of Mid-length?’
Panellists include festival selectors, cinema programmers, film critics and filmmakers.

Film Programme 5.15pm
SUDDENLY FOREVER (Zbigniew Bzymek, Poland, 2008, 42 min – UK premiere)
664KM (Arnaud Bigeard, France, 2008, 42 min – UK premiere)
MARILENA FROM P7 (Cristian Nemescu, Romania, 2005, 45 min)
JUNE (Fijona Jonuzi, Sweden, 2007, 45 min – UK premiere)

Film Programme 8.30pm
VILLAGE IN THE SNOW (Martin Rit, France, 2008, 49 min – UK premiere)
WINTERLAND (Hisham Zaman, Norway, 2007, 52 min)
PRIMROSE HILL (Mikhaël Hers, France, 2007, 57 min – UK premier

VibeLive, Sunday 26th April, 1pm – 11.15pm
£10 for an all day ticket