Projects in categories: Fiction

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Tracing the movements of the New Silk Road, this essay-documentary follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe.
Mapped through footage, interviews, field recordings and found WeChat videos; government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods. 'Paralogisticians' hack infrastructural space through transnational guanxi and long distance friendships. Desert sands made restless by Westerly winds disrupt roads, railways and sometimes engulf whole cities. Through a disorientation of the senses – bodies and landscapes become mobile.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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A journey by train somewhere in Britain throughout the thoughts of various passengers in 21st century post-Brexit delving on the history of Britain.
There is a train of thought floating around between each passenger during the journey. The train journey is interrupted several times when the train has stopped, and the voice of the train driver is heard through the speakers. During the long and often agonizing and irritating sets of announcements by the train driver the passengers are forced to endure the agony of hearing his voice and what he is saying.
The protagonists are taking the shape of puppets and humans and they represent the diverse population of the United Kingdom.

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Only two kinds of people step off a cliff. Those that want to die and those that want to live. JC is a B.A.S.E. jumper, a global playboy who lives his life quite literally on the edge, pursuing man's greatest dream - to fly. When a jump goes wrong, that dream is violently shattered. Faced with the death of his best friend, JC must confront a haunting secret from his past. Drawn towards his friend's grieving lover, Ash, he pushes himself harder than ever before - flying lower, closer, faster and recording every moment. JC's dark descent threatens not only his life but the lives of all those around him. 'BASE' follows a man over the edge and watches him fall. This is his legacy.

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Three candidates are taking part in a TV show, a game of spiritism. The game goes too far and takes over the TV show as the candidates are being transported into a different dimension. Each candidate must introduce the person they want to get in touch with in the "after life". Reverend Piccard, the TV show host is getting in touch with the "after life" and communicates with the candidates the results and in turn they react accordingly. Reaching out to the "after life" is reaching out to the far recesses of oneself and the universe.

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A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as roles are reversed.

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In a world where music is banned young Esme Winters, aided by best friend Jacob, must search for her missing brother. On the way she is mentored by mysterious music teacher Havisham before facing the evil force that lurks in the woods.

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A young man attempts to discover more about his deceased father by interviewing friends and family during the man’s wake.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Journey Strand - World premiere

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A magic-realist story of love, loss and memory. It begins and ends in the same place and time – on a shoreline with Alice and Michael. It’s both the story of that one moment and the story of their whole relationship.

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A young man has doubts over his future bride on his wedding day. With external pressure from his family it seems that there is only one path for our groom-to-be.

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Paul’s the kid you cross the road to avoid. The no-hoper you pray your children never become. But there’s more to Paul than meets the eye or ear. A side he only finds when he’s truly lost. LITTLE SHIT is a child’s journey to discover his and London’s hidden nature.

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A conscientious English teacher’s ethics and sense of self are challenged by a short story depicting her violent death.

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1920's Soviet Union. Sutulin lives in a tiny, cramped room in a communal Soviet apartment. A mysterious stranger knocks on his door and offers him a promotional sample of Quadraturin, a miracle product that promises to enlarge interior spaces. Sutulin takes up the offer, with surprising consequences...