This year’s London Short Film Festival saw various filmmakers and curators pull from archives, as well as create and recreate them. In this, they formed a conceptually charged relationship with ‘the archive’ across the program that was neither predictable or heavy-handed.
In assorted packages and panels that spanned over a week, London Short Film Festival positioned its use of archives as a tool, not for nostalgic viewing, but for creating mood, fleshing context only as needed.