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Burial (2022) is a very short animation film in which the entwined bones of two mermaids - mother and child - appear and disappear. The sound, reminiscent of a funeral march, was created on a bodhran and a tambourine. [1 minute 23 seconds]. Completion date 6th January 2022. |
"I especially enjoyed the way the music works with the images in the 'Burial' film - excellent!" (Mary Yacoob)Burial is being shown at a live screening at TV Eye, Ridgewood, Queens, New York by the Secrets of the Dead Short Film Festival on Sunday 15th December 2024, as part of a series of three screenings of films selected by the festival over the last twelve years. Burial was included in a showreel of three of Cally's films at Fun things to do when you're dead at Cambridge City Crematorium on 13th May 2023. |
Burial was an Official Selection in Microacts 13 - Artist Film Screenings, with a live screening at Hotel Elephant, London, on 9th December 2022. Curated by Liberty Antonia Sadler and Daragh McCann. |
Burial was an Official Selection in the 2022 Secrets of the Dead Short Film Festival, with a live screening at Film Noir Cinema, Brooklyn, New York City, on 22nd October / 1st November 2022. |
Burial was an Official Selection in the 2022 Weird Film Fest Halloween Selection, with a live screening at PianoFight, San Francisco, California, on Saturday 29th October 2022, at the start of Set Two - Europe and Iran. As Weird Film Fest put it: 'Animated bones to set the tone'. |
Burial was an Official Selection in the 2022 Sunderland Shorts Film Festival, with a live screening at the National Glass Centre, Sunderland on Monday 17th October 2022, as part of the Art & Experimental Screening. Burial was included in a showreel in Exploring inside the box: Recent works by Tineke Bruijnzeels and Cally Trench, an exhibition at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot (September-November 2022). |
Burial was included in a short film screening event, ELO(KUVA)KUU, in the Micro Art Experimental section. The event was screened in the Koskikeskus shopping centre in Tampere, Finland, 4th to 19th August 2022, curated by Galleria Kyy. |
Burial was screened at the inaugural Santa Cruz Shorts at the Curzon Soho cinema, London on Saturday 18th June 2022. |
Burial was an Official Selection in the 2022 Walthamstow International Film Festival, with a live screening on Sunday 12th June 2022 at the Truman's Social Club, London. |
Burial was an Official Selection in the 2022 New Jersey International Short Film Festival, with an online screening via xerb.tv, 19th May to 4th June 2022. |
Burial was an Official Selection in the 2022 Shiver International Film Festival, with a live screening at Smiths Falls Community Theater, Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada (25th to 26th February 2022). This was the world premiere of Burial. |