PSST! is a collaboration film project comprising of 17 films made my 51 teams of designers, directors, animators, composers and (we think) the kitchen sink. The collaborative short films made over the last year by over 175 participants in cities worldwide, including: New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta, Nashville, London, Glasgow, Paris, Vilnius, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, and Copenhagen.
Curated and organized by Bran Dougherty-Johnson of Grow Design Work, the PSST mission statement is a common and simple one: to produce original short films through the collaboration of Designers, Directors, and Animators, however – it’s the production process that sets PSST apart from other film challenges.
Derived from the Dadaist game of ‘exquisite corpse’ (more commonly known as consequences – where one person draws or writes something on a piece of paper and passes it to another person, that person then adds something to the existing work and passes it on to someone else and so on) PSST aims to reproduce the game in a moving image / motion graphics format.
This mixing of many talents and narrative ideas results in some pretty sideways and interesting pieces of work. From thieving bunnies to future-retro astronauts – the nutty nature of the exercise makes the storytelling fearless and unfettered, rather like a type of visual freeform jazz.
We managed to make it to the London screening of the project which was a fully rammed out affair. Taking place in Bohdi boutique gallery on Brick Lane the clientele was a heady mix of tightly squeezed contributors, wandering Shoreditch clichés and cheery industry folk. Whilst the work was fantastic – we hope that the organizers can find a bigger venue for the screening next year, as we stopped playing sardines when we were ten.
Chronic gags aside - we at The Reel fully recommend copping a copy of the DVD and checking out the glorious visual madness contained within.
For more info go to: http://www.psstpassiton.com/
Contact PSST!: psst@psstpassiton.com
