Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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An experimental short: a dark comedy satire combined with a music video: In 2044, humanity subsists on ‘Manna-Moolah’ extracted from an asteroid which is now hurtling towards Earth. With hours before impact, Victor tries to get his mentor, Professor Pokus onboard a ship and leave Earth before it’s too late.

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An exploration of the time and labour involved in the creation of any animated film, no matter how long or short. In a tongue-in-cheek interpretation of the ‘Long Shorts’ title, the knitted frames of animation create a physical manifestation of the length of the filmmaking process.

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Following a young man who, after inhaling a potent psychedelic vape, is plunged into a surreal journey through his own fragmented memories. Transported to the eerie depths of an abandoned subway, he must confront dark and disturbing truths buried deep in his subconscious.

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Existing between the domains of architectural, technological and spiritual mediums, ‘spaces as traces’ features found footage, director Teo Shi Yun’s body of archival material concerns with Singapore’s architecture and Taoist religious rituals, as well as three-dimensional rendered animation of deities in an imagined science fiction of Chinese mythology. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere

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After enduring decades of embarrassment, the filmmaker admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, BEING JOHN SMITH takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.

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Throw away all common sense and tap into your madness as you follow Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian - a London-based artist and educator of Armenian and Algerian descent - on a fascinating journey to build a new civilization on the moon. Along with her doppelgängers, Myriam and Lucia, Nelly challenges us to defy power structures and reject planetary exploitation by letting go of the constraints of borders, gender, and religion to embrace what diversity could be in the vast landscape of our imaginations. Prior to their mission, Nelly and her parallel version of self speak with a wide-ranging collection of experts. There’s an LGBTQ+ rights activist, an astronomer, a political scientist, an archaeologist who also makes wine, a theoretical physicist, an environmental designer, a horror filmmaker, and a mathematical economist. They are all crucial to their quest to uncover the key to a queer, eco-feminist future devoid of generational trauma, colonization, and imperialism. However, as the analog space mission takes unexpected turns, the future remains as uncertain as the condition of Schrödinger’s Cat. Featuring the music of Pussy Riot and Colin Self. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 - World premiere Official Selection Munich Film Festival 2024 - European premiere

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Using a mixture of cutting edge generative AI, non-linear collage, dreamlike imagery and and analogue filmmaking techniques, FLESH WISH details the summoning of demonic entities behind the locked doors of a nondescript suburban home in 1970s Britain.

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In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, this film is an ode to the sirens of a changing world. Will we hear them in advance? Does an alarm have to be alarming? Official selection MOMA Doc Fortnight 2024 - World premiere

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A poetic response to the archive and oral histories of Tyneside Cinema, an independent cinema in north-east England which has faced many waves of crisis. Through vignettes, SINKHOLE meditates on grand visions and being near to collapse.

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A street corner near the London underground station. It’s on the route to the Royal Brompton Hospital, where open heart surgery is carried out.

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A stop motion exploring the negative usage of technology. Drawing inspiration from the Nakagin Capsule Tower, remote working and research into the evolutionary effect of technology, this piece of motion presents a future that might be closer than we think.

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Two cities with two women walking in them at night. In one (found footage), light is all that remains. In the other (created in AI), there was never anything else.