‘Influence of Mars’ – Susannah Gent’s short film selected for Kasseler Dokfest

Susannah Gent’s short film Influence of Mars has been selected for the Kasseler Dokfest, a festival specialising in documentary and experimental work in Kassel, Germany and taking place this November. The film was selected from over 3,000 submissions. Influence of Mars was originally produced as part of the Solar: Walking at the Speed of Light app for the Catalyst Festival of Creativity in 2017. Since then the film has been screened at the Hamburg Short Film Festival in 2017, the Short Film Festival of Oberhausen in 2018, and Chapel Allerton Film Festival.

The film explores psychological territorialism through showing Susannah’s ten-year old son’s fascination with weapons, and expands Susannah’s research interests that include using film to expose the human and reveal unconscious undercurrents in ideology and behaviour.

Influence of Mars
Kasseler Dokfest
Tuesday 13 November 2018 – Sunday 18 November 2018

Susannah Gent is a filmmaker and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media Arts & Communication at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about her work here.