A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Born:
October 12, 1987
Michael Pattison is a writer and film critic from Gateshead, England. His writing has been published by Sight and Sound, the BFI, Reverse Shot, MUBI, VICE, Fandor, Indiewire, RogerEbert.com, The Guardian, Playboy, Film Comment, Filmmaker, Cineaste, Senses of Cinema, Little White Lies, The Calvert Journal, Tribune, kolik.film, KINO!, Ekran, SIRP and others. He has also reviewed films for BBC Radio. Michael contributed several essays, including the chapter introduction on documentaries, to Directory of World Cinema: Britain 2 (Intellect 2015). His booklet essays for home entertainment releases include the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection (Arrow), The Driller Killer (Arrow), and The Last Detail (Powerhouse). In August 2016, Michael joined the programming team at Alchemy Film and Arts Festival. As a programming consultant and/or Q&A moderator, he has also worked for the Viennale, Crossing Europe (Linz), Bradford International Film Festival, Kino Otok (Izola), IndieLisboa (Lisbon), CurtoCircuíto (Santiago de Compostela) and Seville European Film Festival. Michael has tutored workshops for aspiring critics at Warsaw Film Festival, Dokufest (Prizen), ZubrOFFka Short Film Festival (Białystok), Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn), Curtas Vila do Conde and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. He has appeared on juries at festivals in Cartagena de Indias, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Marseille, Palić, Drama, Thessaloniki, Bratislava, Lisbon, Lecce, Santiago de Compostela, Lima, Bradford and Pančevo. Michael has a first-class BA (Hons.) degree in Film and English Studies from the University of East Anglia and a distinction-standard MA in Film from Newcastle University. http://www.idfilm.net/
Camera Operator:
2006 Is Not
2006 Still
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
Cinematography:
2005 Hymn
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
Director:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Editor:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Idea:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Music:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Producer:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Screenplay:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Sound:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Sound Designer:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Story Coordinator:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2014 Maya the Bee Movie
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
Writer:
2005 Hymn
2005 The Little Match Girl
2006 Gwent Jykmel: A Fragmented Short on Language
2006 Is Not
2006 Road
2006 Still
2006 Textures
2009 Memories and Desires, or: Letters from Garek Babquis Concerning “The Diagnosis”
2012 Five Markers
2012 Play History
2012 River
2014 Maya the Bee Movie
2017 Dead Centre
2017 Lea River Bridges
2021 Lubiana Laibach
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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.