Projects in categories: Documentary

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A film poem about London in the last hours of the twentieth century. It is composed of documentary footage shot between midday and midnight on 31st December 1999.

I shot it in black and white at 16 fps and telecine-ed it at 25 fps in order to give it the jerky look of an old Edwardian film.

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A dramatic documentary biopic in which the drug addicted filmmaker tries a radical and frightening method of detox.

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My Mum's a Morris dancing vicar. Her Morris dancing friends are a diverse bunch, an opera singer, a long distance lorry driver and an engineer, united by this odd English tradition. By day they hold down responsible jobs, by night they dress in eccentric disguise and dance a strange jig.

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After the genocide of 1994, the Rwandan government temporarily suspended history from the school curriculum. The characters in After Years of Walking - children, teachers, genocide killers, students and historians - all find themselves in an uncertain zone between the old history and a new one.
 
The filmmaker found a feature film about the history of Rwanda, made in 1959 by Belgian missionaries. She took this film back to Rwanda as an entry point into Rwanda's search for history.

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Bedroom Radio is a story of pirate radio, love, life and death on a different frequency. Irony rules at the fringe of Scottish society when what is positive is illegal.

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Bellany - A Life, Death and Resurrection, this new film by St Cyrus based Eyeline Media profiles the work of acclaimed artist John Bellany, whose paintings once dark and often difficult to comprehend are now abundant with colour and joy - reflecting his inner happiness.

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Brothers Arne and Oystein have spent almost every day of their lives together. Alone since their mother's death, they've grown old in their childhood home in a small Norwegian valley. The filmmaker observes the stillness of their daily life, engaging the audience in a different tempo and emphasizing the role of the powerful landscape. As our understanding of the character grows, Brothers becomes an emotional exploration of their intense relationship and their lifelong difficulties in coping with the outside world.

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Charles Darwin suffered from an illness that has puzzled a century of doctors. Dr Rob McCall believes he was struck down by a South American assassin - a disease that today infects millions of people. He sets out to solve the riddle, but it will take forensics and the latest medical knowledge to get even closer to an answer.

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Ismail and Muhuit are standing as independent candidates in the local council election, fighting on the issue of providing detox centres for the crack and heroin addicts on the streets in and around Brick Lane, Banglatown, London E1.
 
In and around these same streets, tour guides peddle gory tales of Jack the Ripper and trivia about the local gangsters, the Krays. Tourists cling to this tabloid version of remembrance of things past.  Is everyone oblivious to the Bengali community and their history?
 
Delwas has lived in E1 for more than 15 years and takes us on an alternative tour of the area. We find it is rich in history, art and politics and discover the only museum of immigration in Europe.

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Fields is a meditation on war filmed at First World War battlefields in Belgium and Northern France in Spring 2002. Through breathtaking landscapes and an evocative soundtrack, the film asks the viewer to consider the continuum of violence in the world since 1918.

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The film tells the touching story of victims of landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Laos and Afghanistan, turning their homelands into a hostile environment for a very long time. It is less a reportage and more an audio-visual reflection on these issues and the landscapes in which they are acted out.

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In Spain, young men go out into the farms at night to secretly fight bulls. By performing this 'ritual' of 'making the moon' they hope one day to become fully-fledged matadores.
 
The film focuses on one Spanish boy, Jorge Contreras, and his efforts to become a bullfighter. Jorge is helped mostly by his father, who has always dreamt of becoming a torero himself. The relationship between father and son tells us a lot. Not only about bullfighting and Spain, but also about courage, freedom, killing and Oedipus.