To Do
3:23 minutes / 16mm / 2022
A reflection on productivity and the self-improvement industry, explored through the filmmaker’s attempts to participate in a modern mindfulness exercise.
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SCREENINGS / OFFICIAL SELECTION
01/2025 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA (UK)
10/2024 - B3 Biennial (GER)
10/2024 - SMHAF, CCA (UK)
01/2025 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries, The Levinsky Gallery (UK)
09/2024 - SET Social Peckham (UK)
06/2024 - Not A Genre! The Rio Cinema (UK)
04/2024 - Tiny Film Festival (USA)
11/2023 - Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK)
10/2023 - Raindance Film Festival (UK)
10/2023 - Obskuur Ghent Film Festival (BE)
10/2023 - FrontDoc (ITA)
09/2023 - Short Focus Film Festival (UK)
06/2023 - European Short Film Festival (GER)
06/2023 - Walthamstow International Film Festival (UK)
06/2023 - Fear No Film, Utah Arts Festival (USA)
05/2023 - Process Experimental Film Festival (LV)
05/2023 - Sydney World Film Festival (AU)
05/2023 - Flatpack Festival (UK)
04/2023 - Sunday Shorts Film Film Festival (UK)
04/2023 - Underneath the Floorboards (UK)
04/2023 - Alchemy Film & Arts Festival (UK)
04/2023 - Toronto Film Week (USA)
03/2023 - Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA)
03/2023 - Glasgow Short Film Festival (UK)
02/2023 - Brussels Independent Film Festival (BE)
12/2022 - London Super Shorts Film Festival (UK)
12/2022 - Los Angeles Super Shorts Film Festival (USA)
11/2022 - London International Animation Festival (UK)
CREDITS
Film - Saul Pankhurst
Production - Charlie Pender
Sound Design - Cajm
Voice over - Mo Langmuir & Saul
PRESS
“… my favourite film of the weekend: Saul Pankhurst’s To Do. It’s a wonderful skewering of our hectic modern life and the pervasive self-improvement industry... a chaotic animated collage of images that’s part Pop Art, part Dalí, part Monty Python. Anyone who can’t escape swirling thoughts just before bed or during a post-yoga shavasana will surely identify.” - Jamie Dunn, The Skinny 2023
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“… scattered and humorously animated images of popular culture and everyday life fly before us, as though a digital version of a Richard Hamilton (1922-2011) collage. A swirling, whirring muttering list of things ‘To Do’ – from cancelling Amazon Prime to cleaning the hob – is just audible between the syrupy guided flow of Mo Langmuir’s podcast-worthy ‘Daily Calm’ feature. Will Saul’s take on a daily ritual help put viewer’s decision-fatigued minds at ease, or poignantly distract us with reminders of our own ‘To Do’s’?” - Bracken Jelier, Made in Plymouth 2024