Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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A cinematic and interactive journey through our shifting sense of reality, challenging our sense of the here and now, and blending the boundary between a music video and video game with a unique movement mechanic that rewards the curious, and AI driven randomisation... told from the future, looking back at how technology has impacted our experience of reality and the journey of humankind, this piece explores the way our sense of reality is in constant flux. This is the standalone version of a live music VR experience created for the Glasgow Disability Alliance. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2020 - XR Experience Competition - World premiere

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The feature-length documentary is an attempt to answer one of the most vital questions in all our lives: What is the meaning of home? The film focuses on family, identity, emigration (through the lens of Polish-Irish-South African-English ties), as well as the circle of life, death and rebirth. The axis of the film is a house which connects and shelters, and which allows the lives of the characters to be transformed. It's genesis and inspiration was a seven-year collection of films and photographs covering the lives of residents who lived and worked under the cover, protection and generosity of the house’s owner – a 90-year-old, bed-bound writer – Elizabeth – in Hampstead Garden Suburb, north London. Official selection Kinoteka Polish Film Festival 2024 - UK premiere

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Having depleted their wells, off-shore platforms await final decommissioning. Nearby on land, a yearly burning of oil takes place.

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Unfolding at the nexus of immersive technology, creative storytelling and wellbeing, SOUL PAINT delves into the richness of the embodied human experience. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 - XR Experience Competition - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A speculative narrative that takes place in a future of the past, in a present ruptured now. An intimate exploration of grief and resistance across diasporic distance in shifting landscapes of loss, from the streets to the bed; in sites of displacement, nuclear contamination, and military occupation from Scotland to Puerto Rico; from the bottom of the ocean to the planet Uranus. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024 - Forum Expanded - World premiere

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A thought-provoking short film that artistically examines the negative impact of drinking and smoking. This film is audio described using the multi-award winning Rationale Method of Audio Description.

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In the face of the global economic and technological forces reshaping the city of Tangier, the profession of the bleach vendors seems to be on the verge of disappearance, yet this filmic portrait of their supply chain - and notably their insistent chanting - conveys acoustic and visual images of endurance. The film speaks to the accelerated urbanisation and industrialisation of Tangier, but also attests to how locally situated choreographies of Slowness articulate modes of resistance to the speed of capitalism. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2024 - Forum Expanded - European premiere

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A fictional short film which explores the subjects of ancestral trauma, dispossession and the power in the return/retrieval. Shot largely on an existing sugarcane farm in Jamaica, the film weaves historical methods of harvesting sugarcane and sugar production with the cinematic concept of the ‘Origin Story’.

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A quest to find the truth behind a thirty year old memory, along the way connecting the dots between family, community, the power of place and the concept of home.

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A poem arrives on the screen letter by letter. The image is all text with the story in the soundtrack, a blackbird's song.

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A journey into the historical and tactile entanglements between sheep’s wool, migrant plant seeds and the River Tweed. Official Selection Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024 - World premiere

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Archive footage, music and voice combine to explore the choreography of childhood and the possibility of childish autonomy. In a world ruled by adults, how does the child in film resist oppression and control? The childish imagination escapes in flights of fantasy, both brief and absorbing. Energy is directed and contained. "I'm live as a battery. Who am I to you?"