ÉCU-The European Independent Film Festival

Multiple award winning Stanley Pickle stole the show on the
opening night at the ECU. A student production, Vicky Mather impresses
with her precocious ability to blend funny, touching and disturbing
elements into a highly accomplished 11 minute piece.

UPDATE 2011: Stanley Pickle WINS Best Student Film at the 2011 ECU Film Festival!

The film centres upon the bizarre, colourful and
mechanical world of Stanley Pickle and his family, almost suggestive of a
living toy box. They live a sheltered domestic life whose routines are
determined by the wind-up mechanism upon their back, as they repeat the
same gestures, the same expressions and the same existences, which seems
to represent the small-mindedness of conservative family life.

Their rigidity is contrasted with the graceful glide of
the girl who saunters outside – in touch with nature, free and alone.
She is positioned as the ideal, a life that Stanley fears for its chaos
and cannot accommodate into his own. This contrast between structure and
chaos is at the heart of the film, and is masterfully suggested by the
editing itself, which respectively chops up and blends.

In Stanley Pickle, then, we have an original and complete piece
of film-making which, if the applause is anything to go by, should be a
strong contender in the awards ceremony on Sunday night. TNC will be
running an interview with the director later in the festival.

By Joshua Feldman

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