Projects matching: Anthony Ing

Synopsis

Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes — the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle — a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
The true crime genre’s ubiquity is driven by people’s endless fascination, disgust, and — bizarrely — search for comfort in genre conventions that still have the ability to generate complex emotions despite their predictability and familiarity. Filmmaker and multimedia artist Charlie Shackleton’s projects have used his uniquely funny, intellectually engaging style to examine how popular culture, mass media, and storytelling create meaning. In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, Shackleton dissects the true crime genre by recreating it. Using Bay Area landscapes, archival material, reenactments, film and TV clips, and voice-over to walk the viewer through what his film would have been like and why, Zodiac Killer Project is a captivating and entertaining experience that will forever change how you watch your next murder program.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection True/False Film Fest 2025
Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - Best of the Fests
Official Selection First Look 2025 (New York, Museum of the Moving Image)
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025

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Flesh as film, and film as flesh... An amateur archaeologist arrives on a desolate peatland in Lancashire, their mind filled with the strange power that peat-bog waters hold to preserve organic matter. They have come to excavate the peatland. They have come to exhume a body. But, in digging into the peat — and into the past — they unearth much more than mere relics. The peat holds forgotten histories, uneasy truths, and vast stores of climate-change-accelerating carbon. Reflecting the attempt to document and preserve this landscape via the moving image, the film becomes both a lament and a call to action for local peat-bog restoration and protection. A queer eco-horror which reflects on what it means to bury, to archive, to capture, to unearth. Shot in collaboration with the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, the film becomes both a lament and call to action for local peat-bog conservation.

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On the Isle of Sheppey, two boys try to enjoy a last day together. Their adventures are captured by Gabriel, who has cerebral palsy, on an old camera. But as the day goes on, fears about the future cloud their friendship.

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Cinema history is scoured for hidden depths in this improvised experiment in perception, presented in stereoscopic 3D.

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Prolific background actor Jill Goldston takes centre stage in this unique portrait. Constructed entirely from Jill’s performances – captured fleetingly in everything from MR BEAN to THE ELEPHANT MAN – the film is a lyrical journey through popular culture, and a haunting study of life lived out of focus.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition - World premiere

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A mother and son revisit the medical emergency that reshaped their lives, and the remarkable fragments that remain of that time, in this intimate blend of virtual reality and performance film.

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An ode to the madness and mundanity of the high street, told through the window of a classic West African hair salon.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Shorts - Your UK or Mine? - World premiere
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2022

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Fragments of hundreds of films from around the world draw together an ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive. Together, they contend with a fragile existence lived solely through the traces of their work.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - World premiere

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A story of independence, about a hot water bottle who gets left out in the cold. Directed and animated by Jenny Wright, it is a silent animation, exploring the nature and values of relationships, comfort, support and abandonment, told through an evocative line drawing and watercolour style.

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At the audition, Maya loses track of who she's performing for and why.

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The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the tabloid press - but not by those in the dock.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Official Short Film Competition - World premiere - Winner, Best Short Film
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 - Voices - International premiere

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In December 2016, an armed man stormed a Washington D.C. pizza parlour in search of a non-existent child sex ring he'd read about online. What can his story teach us about knowledge, belief and the stories we choose to put our faith in?
Official Selection IDFA 2017 - World premiere