Projects in categories: Documentary

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Frank wants to be a world champion. His chosen discipline? Competitive stone skimming. A tosser for as long as he can remember, Frank believes that with discipline, dedication and purposeful practice, he's sure for victory.

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SLEEPING IN PUBLIC is a new collaborative moving image commission, collaborating with writer Ellen Wilkinson for Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Captured at night in Bristol, the video work shows details of empty spaces: functional but overlooked parts of the city that in daylight would be populated by people working. In these dark images people are distantly present: a blurry figure passes behind a semi-opaque loading bay door; chairs wait for sitters to return; discarded paper cups are lit by the blue flashes of an emergency siren; someone wearing a high visibility jacket pauses in the centre of a car park. The measured – perhaps weary – voice of the European narrator describes workers in a warehouse of artificial plants and flowers. Without a defined beginning and end, this looping video reflects the repetitive nature of the daily work that many of us do, depicting workplace hierarchies and the subtle ways in which people's behaviour is controlled.

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A search for the truth behind a fishy tale. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - International Documentary Short Film Selection - World premiere

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In 1977, immigration divides Britain. What happens when a punk fanzine challenges the status quo? Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - International Documentary Short Film Selection - World premiere

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On April 6, 2006, a young man named Halit Yozgat was shot and killed in a Kassel internet café. His murder was the ninth in a series of ten committed by a terrorist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU) between 2000 and 2007. Andreas Temme, an employee of Hessen’s State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was also present that same day. He claimed to have already left the café at the time of the crime. Known for how they merge artistic and politic practice, the Forensic Architecture collective took on the murder of Halit Yozgat, precisely reconstructing the minutes before and after the crime in their film 77sqm_9:26min. Which elements of Andreas Temme’s statements are true and which are not is the central question of the film, which was shown for the first time at documenta 14 in Kassel. Witness statements are compared and sets of movements reconstructed in a replica of the internet café, while a digital simulation shows how long the smell of the gunshots remains in the air. The conclusions that can be drawn from the research form a damning indictment of the investigative and judiciary authorities. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022 - Forum Special Fiktionsbescheinigung

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A young filmmaker questions how he connects to his emotions, by talking to a stranger online who can’t feel any. This stranger (Robert) suffers from 'Alexithymia', which is a condition most simply described as ‘Emotional Blindness’, it’s the inability to identify and describe emotions in the self.

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A crowd gathers until the early morning at a boozy London pub to watch the US presidential election. As dawn breaks, emotions escalate and the evening takes a turn for the worse.

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A cinematic virtual reality experience about love, grief and reconciliation, between a human trafficking survivor and her father. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - VR for Good - World premiere

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The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.

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Based on an unrealised film script written in 1964 for The Homosexual Law Reform Society (a British organisation that campaigned for the decriminalisation of homosexual relations between men), this piece merges drama and documentary into an impressionistic meditation on queer life under the law. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017 - World premirere Winner - Best Documentary Short, London Short Film Festival 2018

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Follow the lives of five untrained artists (painters) born in the slums who survived together from childhood in the streets of Nairobi, Kenya. Together they create incredible art that no one sees. Learn of their struggles and triumphs while viewing their beautiful art in the slum setting of Mukuru.

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Inside Qatar’s labour camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of their own. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - World Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere