About Bert the Turtle's DOA

From the early 1950s until the end of the Cold War, American School children were introduced to an animated turtle, who charmingly taught them how to survive an atomic bomb. Four dancers, equally charming, form this film, which quickly disintegrates into chaos as it becomes clear that poor old Bert was never very convincing at all.

About Isla Hurst

Dance and film artist Isla Hurst makes dance films. Choreography and direction is her main forte, although she has also written and performed for other directors. Good screendance, she believes, should be respectful of both disciplines it combines, whilst diminishing neither. That said, dance, though the main attraction of her work, is rarely the only one, and by working with a multidisciplinary approach, she feels dance can exist as the ultimate form of surrealism; an invaluable tool to serve character, narrative and meaning.