Projects in categories: Documentary

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In the face of growing Taliban and sectarian tensions, The Other Side of the Tora Bora returns to the North West Frontier Provinces of Pakistan five years on from Operation Enduring Freedom. Through exceptional access, this unique film looks beyond the region's veil of infamy exposing an ancient culture on the cusp of change and a region under threat growing from Taliban forces.

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Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and collaborator Nicholas Abrahams tell stories of faith and devotion from around the world in this fascinating and inspired documentary about fandom.

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Adam Lyal (a pale-faced ghost) has stood in three consecutive Scottish Parliamentary Elections. This documentary follows his progress to Election Day 2007, when an automated count replaced the manual system with far-reaching consequences.

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Part city symphony part visual poem, The Solitary Life of Cranes explores the invisible life of a city, its patterns and hidden secrets, seen through the eyes of crane drivers working high above its streets.  

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We are walking on the knife edge.

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Unfolding in three chapters of rare intimacy and candour, Tres Pesos offers an insight into the everyday lives of young Cuban reggaeton musicians. Living in the neglected outskirts of Havana, the musicians who rap and jam together share a relentless hunger for success despite the poverty of their daily existence.

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An informal interview with Turner Prize winner British artist Grayson Perry prior the opening of his groundbreaking exhibition Unpopular Culture at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. Here he talks about his impressions, opinions and reasons for selecting the artworks from the Art Council collection contained in this distinctive show. Produced by Plush Prodcutions Limited in collaboration with De La Warr Pavilion and Arts Council Of England.

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Performance film, The Challenge night show. With live acts, dance, live music, jamming and more. Filmed at the Masonic Hall, Hastings/St Leonards, East Sussex

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Filmed on location in the US, Europe and Southern Africa, The Hunger Season tells the story of a young teacher called Justice and the children in his care living in the heart of rural Swaziland as they struggle to survive a year of drought and diminishing food handouts.

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If an Englishman’s home is his castle, then why are so many people turning their back on the housing market? This short documentary features interviews with squatters, the homeless and people in long-term hostel accommodation, to investigate why so many people are seeking alternative ways to live.

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Filmed at the Demilitarized Zone on the border between North and South Korea, the work 38TH PARALLEL seeks to portray the particular reality of this contested site. It is a reality marked by an eerie sense of latency. Constantly alert, constantly inert, North and South face each other in a stalemate situation sealed by a cease-fire agreement 55 years ago. In her video, Davies operates in this void. Working with the United Nations Armistice Commission and the United States Armed Forces in Korea, she shows how political reality manifests itself here, beyond representation, in the ways how space is structured and time is regimented in this militarized environment. Facing each other across the turnpike, for instance, border guards of both sides execute the silent ceremonies of authority proscribed by their military protocol. It’s choreography of empty gestures enacted on the stage of a deserted strip of land and bleak interrogation rooms. Davies then shows the local epicentre of conflict of global proportions to be a non-place where power manifests itself in ghostly acts of decorum performed in suspended time.