Look to the Hills

By D+CFilm, on Thursday, May 1, 2008

A still from one of Tony Hill's films

Joining Don Letts at Plymouth’s Flipside film festival (May 21-31) will be Tony Hill and Ed Hill (no relation!).

Tony’s award-winning work includes sculpture, photography, installations, short films for cinema and TV and commercial directing.

His commercial work includes directing music videos for the Orb and the Bluetones and TV ads for NatWest, BMW, Sony, Andalucia, Remy Martin and Audi.

His shorts explore different ways of looking at the world and often require the invention and building of various rigs for filming.

He has made special camera rig shots for Peter Greenaway, BBC2, the feature film The Cell and a recent Toyota commercial.

He taught film and video for many years becoming Professor of Film at the University of Derby and now teaches at Plymouth College of Art.

Ed Hill is a teacher and well-known local activist in Bristol. In 2005 he visited Palestine to help farmers harvest their olives.

Using a pocket video camera he recorded his experiences and his film aims to present a complete understanding of the history, politics, geography, and culture of Palestine.

It dramatically explains the construction of the Separation Wall/Fence, the checkpoints, the apartheid system of passes, separate road networks and the continual military oppression.

Times and venues for these events will be announced in the coming weeks. Keep checking D+CFilm and the festival website for more details.

Tune in tomorrow to find out about Flipside’s cinema in a shed!

And if you want more of the Flipside vibe, check out our own mini offering, or Flipside’s own stack of info.