Screenings

Wormcharmer has played in festivals, cinemas and galleries in London, Europe and USA, TV screenings in Europe.

Festivals
London Film Festival (official selection)
New Zealand International Film Festival
Sao Paulo Film Festival, Brazil
Montreal Festival of New Cinema & Media, Canada
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Impakt Festival, Netherlands
Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland (award winner)
Odense International Film Festival, Denmark
Berlin Lesben Film Festival, Germany
Anatalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Turkey
Bangladesh Film Festival
Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, Spain
Festival of European Films, Turkey
L'Etrange Film Festival, Paris
Split Film Festival

Other Screenings
Lux Cinema London
ICA, London
Icon Gallery, Birmingham
Experiments in Moving Image, London. 01/04
Oberhausen International Film Festival. Special programme: "The Fallen Curtain: People Are Looking at You" 05/05
Filmbar, Hildesiem, Germany. 11/05
Suffragette City, The Spare Room Gallery, London. 07/08

Awards
Tampere International Film Festival (documentary category)

Touring Programme
Osnabruck (EMAF) International Touring Programme:
Proyectos Culturales, Madrid
Film Museum Frankfurt
Danish Film Institute
Goethe Institute, Glasgow
Goethe Institute, Warsaw
Goethe Institute, Krakow
Goethe Institute, HongKong
Goethe Institute, Bangalore
KoKi cinema, Frieburg
KoKi cinema, Stuttgart
KoKi cinema, Gieflen
KoKi cinema, Eschborn
VVK-Gallery Hannover

Broadcast
Canal+

Gallery
'Living in This Mess' group show, Morley Gallery, London, UK. January 2003
'Evidence' group show, Maidstone Museum, Maidstone, UK 1998

Reviews
The film echoes early Greenaway in dealing with factual information in an immensly surreal and sensually erotic manner.
Michael Hannigan, chair of international jury, Tampere International Short Film Festival 2000

...With a handful of visual paradoxes which Luis Bunuel would have applauded, and a sense of eroticism that wipes out any preconceived ideas, Roz Mortimer gives a natural touch to a new manifestation of unprecedented fetishism.
San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival 1999

...Mortimer's childhood was spent in north London and she has a highly developed understanding of the suburban experience. This becomes apparent through her use of location as a metaphor for containment and control and in her character developments, charting the stiffling effects of repression and tedium to their inevitable conclusion. Her narratives, though humorous and surreal, are disturbing insights into middle classness, repression and guilt.
Claire Robins, ReForm catalogue 1998

Credits
Featuring Siobhan Nicholas

Camera Lynda Hall / Sound Jon Wilkinson / Narrator Samantha Butler / Art department and special props Claire Robins / Costume Clara Apollo / Assistant Director Julian Hutton / Graphics Jeremy Williams / Gaffer Phil Lott / Locations Gavin and Susan Mortimer / Online edit Guy Shakespear / Music Benjamin Britten's Elegy performed by Britten Sinfonia, courtesy of EMI Records

Funded by Arts Council of England

Produced and directed by Roz Mortimer