68th London Film Festival Preview: Venture Forth

DN looks ahead to the 68th London Film Festival by exploring the expansive slate of features and shorts scheduled to screen across the festival's jam-packed 12 days.

Object of Desire

Naomi Christie speaks to DN about the pervasive micro-aggressions and negative experiences which informed the glitzy seedy reality of 'Object of Desire', her AFI thesis short exploring Asian fetishisation in LA's underground karaoke bar scene.

Dead Man’s Switch

Alejandro Gerber Bicecci walks us through his collaboration with lead actor Adriana Paz in creating the troubled protagonist at the core of his compelling feature drama about a Mexico City Metro driver who has to negotiate broken bureaucratic systems after her husband vanishes without a trace.

Verdict 30001: The Cookies

Co-directors Samuel Häkkinen & Henna Välkky speak to the importance of believing in ideas you deeply resonate with for their dark comedy short about the internal boardroom committee who hash out a man's indecision of which cookies to buy.

Prelude to Ecstasy

Harv Frost digs into how she brought the decadent visual world of The Last Dinner Party to life in her intoxicating horror-inflected multi-video short, a homage to Giallo films set within a mysterious dance school containing a dark magic.