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Unthinkable film festival UNTHINKABLE is a hull based film festival set up as a charity with the aim of giving back to the local creative community.

We push originality and cross discipline exploration

19/02/2025

GOD BLESS YOU // JOSEPH WHITMORE

Friday 7:00pm

14/02/2025

WALL OF THE ROSES // ANDY CLARK

You can now see the highly-anticipated, local audience choice winner of our 2024 festival, The Wall of the Roses, on our YouTube channel!

The director Andy Clark sadly passed away before he could witness his film be shown to the public and subsequently adored by all, and we are so grateful his family and friends decided to submit his film to us. It was an honour to screen it, and we’re grateful to be the ones to upload it for everyone to enjoy whenever they need a laugh or bit of inspiration!

In our bio we’ve put a link to the JustGiving page which was created in memory of Andy by his family, as he passed away from early-onset Parkinson’s at the young age of 54. All proceeds go towards Parkinson’s UK, and any donation you make will carry his unique humour and clever filmmaking legacy onwards.

10/02/2025

THE WALL OF ROSES // ANDY CLARK

Two men build a wall. Coming this Friday 7:00pm on YouTube.

06/02/2025

Short film about a paranoid meat lover. Shot in Hull in 1986, restored 2024.

DISEASE by Andrew Hulme will be available to view online tomorrow at 7:00pm on our YouTube channel. This was our judges favourite at the local screening last year so gis a watch and let us know your thoughts 🥩

29/01/2025

PERSPECTIVES // PHILIP MCHUGH

‘Male Madonna and Child shot at the Mouth of the River Mersey in 2006 now as Yorkshire men we hear our voices emanating across the Northern Seas.’

Another film from our Exhibition Bravo we screened last festival and a popular one at the local screening, Perspectives will be available to watch on our YouTube channel this Friday.

24/01/2025

AFTER IMAGE // GRACE MARSHALL

Coming this Friday 7:00pm over on our YouTube channel

15/01/2025

THE WESTWOOD COWS // MATT MCCLOUD

‘I love cinema, and I’m just hoping to make some films people enjoy’

Matt’s WESTWOOD COWS will be premiering this Friday over on our YouTube channel at 7pm - an extremely charming film that was shown at our local screening and absolutely loved by all 🐄

08/01/2025

REALITY COLLAPSE // AARON ROSS

Aaron F. Ross is a video producer, author, and educator. His abstract video and computer animation has screened at festivals and venues such as SIGGRAPH, ISEA, and the Exploratorium. Aaron has worked as a director, editor, videographer, 3D computer graphic artist, sound designer, and university faculty member. He holds an MFA from CalArts and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Premiere of Reality Collapse coming this Friday.

06/12/2024

POLAR BEAR // LOCAL SCREENING // FESTIVAL END

Just two months ago we concluded our festival week with a packed screening of local Hull + East Yorkshire films at everyone’s favourite Polar Bear • such a sense of community that night and a stunnin bunch of films 💥

Thanks to everyone who came + submitted a film // and a massive well done to our winners Andrew Hulme + Andy Clarke 👏

Hope you all enjoyed our surprise performance from Hull Ukulele Group too 😉

Love u 💛

02/12/2024

Quick review of our festival by that we definitely didn’t pay Tim and Charlie to do 👀

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27/11/2024

FIRST TIME FILMMAKERS // SCREEN ACTING EAST YORKSHIRE // TICK TOCK

Our collab this year with led to a bunch of strangers learning, writing, creating, and editing a film together that was then screened at our Local Screening at - all in FOUR DAYS!!

Couldn’t have done it without these amazing industry talents: Michael Kinsey, Callum Ahmed, Paul Stephenson, George Brignall-McDougall, Jordan Dean, Jessica Duffield, and Jacob Butler.

MASSIVE congratulations to all our filmmakers for their immense achievement - we’re glad UNTHINKABLE has led to creative connections being made and the smashin’ film TICK TOCK created + screened in such a short time.

More intensive workshops like this will be available next year 👏 thank you also to Screen Acting East
Yorkshire & Humber Street Gallery 🫡

22/11/2024

UNTHINKABLE AWARD SCREENING

Been over a month since the award screening and we’re still raving about the films we saw!

Thank you to those winners and directors that attended, and we hope you all enjoyed the little surprise performance by the Pavillion Pierrots that rounded off the evening (I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of them).

Big thanks to our lovely judges and for managing to choose winners from such a strong pool of creativity.

And last but not least, thanks to Hull Truck for providing a great space for us 👍

If you attended the award screening let us know your favourite film in the comments!

20/11/2024

KIALY TIHNGANG // OUTWITH

Two films that reimagine history and speculate on alternate futures. Themes of colonial European misrepresentation, extraction, and demonisation of West African cultural practices.

If you missed this stunning exhibition opening during our festival week then there’s still time to go experience it.

• ‘til 20.12 //

15/11/2024

RICHIE CULVER // solo exhibition

Unthinkable patron, judge, supporter, friend - Richie has been an asset to our festival. His exhibition at was incredible to experience.

Check out his website for some more info on this exhibition and an accompanying essay by + the link in our bio to Radio 6 show featuring Richie’s ICONS music mix.

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GOD BLESS YOU // JOSEPH WHITMORE WINNER of best animation category 2025 UNTHINKABLE Film Festival. Available to view this Friday. ‘God Bless You is a 3D animated film which serves to acknowledge how childhood experiences influence and challenge our future selves. The project focuses on depicting the commonly experienced issue of alcoholism and its impact on interfacing relationships and mental health.’

THE WALL OF THE ROSES // ANDY CLARK We are BUZZIN to show you our audience choice award film from the local screening at last years festival - thank you to Andy’s family for submitting this film (a bit more about that in tomorrow’s post) and we hope you’re all looking forward to watching this on the 14t 🌹 (Also very apt that we’re posting wall of the roses on Valentine’s Day - definitely planned)

DISEASE // ANDREW HULME Thank you Andrew for the insight into your 1980s short film DISEASE, which is now screening on our YouTube channel!! Head over there via the link in our bio and have a watch and a laugh.

DISEASE // ANDREW HULME “I made this film in the 80s when I was flirting with veganism and meat had become a kind of fetishised object. There’s nothing strange or contradictory about standing in the supermarket squeezing it through cling film, is there?” This Friday at 7:00pm we’ll be showcasing Andrew Hulme’s hilarious short film DISEASE over on our YouTube channel, so get ready - it won our Judge’s choice award at the @polarbearmusicclub local screening back in October and we’re STILL thinking about it 🏆

PERSPECTIVES // PHILIP MCHUGH SOON: head on over to our YouTube channel to see Perspectives, Philip McHugh’s experimental short that we screened at our local screening & Exhibition Bravo, in less than an hour 🙌

PERSPECTIVES // PHILLIP MCHUGH Coming this Friday at 7:00pm

AFTER IMAGE // GRACE MARSHALL Head on over to our YouTube via the link in our bio to watch Grace Marshall’s amazing filmic self-portrait of the self.

AFTER IMAGE // GRACE MARSHALL A filmic self-portrait exploring the complexity of the self through familiar imagery and performance for camera. Q&A + FILM coming this Friday 7:00pm Check out The FATCANFLUB, an online arts & literature magazine, where Grace Marshall dives into her day in Hull + the UNTHINKABLE Film Festival where After Image was screened at our Bravo Exhibition!

THE WESTWOOD COWS // MATT MCCLOUD Small snippet of the Q+A with Matt and Victoria about their wonderful film The Westwood Cows - full Q+A uploaded tomorrow but the film is now LIVE on our YouTube channel // follow the link in our bio to watch 🐮

REALITY COLLAPSE // AARON ROSS Q&A Head to YouTube via link in our bio to watch Aaron Ross’ collage film, and have a watch of our full Q&A video out right now! ‘Art points the way toward a deeper understanding of reality and the human condition. It’s a key element in the evolution of consciousness. New and strange experiences expand our conceptions of the possible.’

REALITY COLLAPSE // AARON ROSS Glimpse into Ross’ short film screened at Exhibition Bravo - premiere this Friday. ‘Pseudo-narrative on the dangers of media seduction, addiction, and dissociation. A musical montage of science fiction film and TV, manipulated via analog video synthesis for maximum sensory overload.’