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Title: CONTROL

Reference number: 8194

Date: 2000

Director: d. Matt Rochester

Sponsor: [ Scottish Screen]

Producer: [ Matt Rochester]

Production company: [ Edinburgh College of Art]

Sound: sound

Original format: Betacam SP

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 9.00 mins

Description: Trouble at the message centre leads to disaster for the entire race when a mechanical breakdown forces the man at the controls to think and act independently. [synopsis taken from VHS sleeve notes]

Scottish Students on Screen (SSoS) is a one day festival designed to foster stronger links between education and the moving image industries. It is managed by BAFTA and funded by Scottish Screen, and has been running a innovative programme of events since 1999. Features sessions, screenings, workshops and masterclasses providing all you need to know about getting into the industry

Credits: Made by Matt Rochester
m. produced by Dave O'Neil
performed by Neil Jack
ed. Matt Rochester
ass. by Sueann Smith

Thanks to Sueann Smith, Jason Wagner, Donald Holwill, Alan Mason, Neil Kempsell and Mum and Dad

Edinburgh College of Art 2000

Shotlist: Coghead receives his instructions and moves a joystick. Somewhere a creature moves within a strange cycle of life and death. It’s an easy job and Coghead is employee of the month, but when he stops receiving instructions can he improvise and keep the cycle going? A tale of free will and a bad day at the office. [description from BBC Film Network website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A13365795, last accessed 13/3/2009]

A being moves through a bizarre cycle of life and death. He has his every movement controlled by a 'higher power' who is given strict instructions by an unseen employer [synopsis from 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival Catalogue, 2001.]