That Ami Carter really does have her finger on the pulse doesn’t she? This week’s episode sees her popping up at one of our favourite London weeklies: ‘Short & Sweet’, a free short film night at Café 1001 in Brick Lane. We were there before Christmas, feasting on burgers and, ahem, champagne, lounging on large leather sofas and delighting in the general ‘Short & Sweet’ ambience. We saw pretty much everything from animations to music videos via deep political kidnap dramas… All of the features were brilliant and the overall experience was impeccable as usual, but in our humble opinion two shorts deserve special mention:

Firstly, the Amy & Antonya Raw Talent Award has to go to Edward Shires and Ian Wharton, two (very) young (and charming) graduates for their animation ‘Solar’. It tells the story of the sun, moon, and two characters who inhabit a planet that relies on day and night perhaps more than it would seem. Words couldn’t do it justice so check it out for yourselves, and find out what makes the world go round.

Secondly, the Amy & Antonya Sheer Entertainment Value Award goes to music video spoof ‘Sticks & Balls’, whose happy union of golf, sex, smut and electro took our breath away in a very different way. Written, directed and conceived by Jacqueline Wilson of Liberty Films and performed by Alice Lowe, this film makes golf sexy in a rather wonderfully unexpected way.

Great minds really do think alike Miss C. Bump into you down there soon maybe? And the rest of you, get down there - it’s free cinema, duh, with hamburgers and champagne.

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