Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 3 minutes
Narrated by esteem author Jonathan Wilson, Keepers tells of the existenstial plight of sport’s ultimate outsider - the football goalkeeper. In a team game - it is the goalkeeper who stands alone - balancing humiliation, disaster and glory. From Albert Camus to Vladimir Nabokov, the goalkeeper position has attracted the genius, the insane and the existential outsider.
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A Game of Three Halves - Episode 4
Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 5 minutes
Author Joel Golby recounts how during World Cup 2018 he became the number 1 fan of a soccer team he’d never heard of before - The Wild Boars FC. Trapped 2 kilometres beneath the earth in a flooded cave system an entire schoolboy soccer team...
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A Game of Three Halves - Episode 5
Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 4 minutes
Using the verbatim comments taken from the first video uploaded to YouTube of Zinedene Zidane’s infamous World Cup final headbutt (11 years ago and with 9 million views) this film excavates the anger, praise, damnation and forgiveness felt ...
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Las Leonas
Directed by Isabel Achaval, Chiara Bondi • Documentary • 2022 • 83 minutes
On the outskirts of Rome, six teams compete in the women’s soccer championship, the Las Leonas Trophy. All recent immigrants to Italy—the majority from South America—the participants work busy lives as caregivers and hous...
