Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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A story of ritual, sexuality and relationships, through the life and work of one of the UK's most exciting dancers. Classically trained, Bharatanatyam in India and ballet in London, Mavin Khoo is a household name in many of the international opera houses and clubs of London through his diverse work.

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Mental Block depicts the journey of a young freerunner (Ali) striving to find his own personal route through life using the discipline of parkour, but all motion stops when he reaches the inevitable mental block. Set within inner-city estates Ali discovers the hardest obstacles to overcome are in the mind.

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North Circular - An experimental abstract animation by Michael Salkeld. Utilising video 2d and 3d animation, as an experimental visual poem, interacting with an ambient improvised musical soundtrack. Animation and music by Michael Salkeld

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Based on the writings of Bruce Lee, Nunchaku explores the journey of a young urban warrior forced to face his demons.

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Sourced from content from the Great North Run film archive, concentrating on the audience rather than the runner. Frame layers are arranged across the screen in the direction of the natural panning of the original shots, revealing a unique panoramic view of the content.

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Psycho Ranger is based on actual events. Our story is set in the Derbyshire Peak District and is about a High Peak Ranger (Samuel Waring) who loses his mother to cancer. The Ranger slips into psychotic episodes, due to isolation, depression, a persistent poacher and 2 hikers who ridicule him. He kidnaps the poacher and hikers and psychologically tortures them before killing them.

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A long weekend on the South Coast of England. Reservations follows five hotel guests with one thing in common, they are all alone. The film explores the relationships that develop as these people's lives become inextricably intertwined. This sometimes dark but heartfelt drama set within the sumptuous backdrop of past grandeur really treats the viewer with an insight into the lives, hearts and minds of these seemingly pedestrian characters; as their lives shift in surprising ways. Reservations is devised using a process of improvisation with a cast of first time actors.

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That some people are constantly on roads is explained with some land, airway and seaway images. These people's journeys will certainly come to an end but this time other people's journeys will start in other words this cycle will always continue.

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Ever wondered what men get up to alone at home? More than a few great minds have worked up a head of steam over this one. Here is a surprisingly sexy hymn to domesticity and the male state.

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Tad's Nest a place where eels mature before being compelled to return to a location using only memories of sensations to guide them. The film examines the way memories are held as sensations and the ability of memory to invent people and places to perform the sensations. Compulsion to return, replay, and revisit.

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People wait for something to happen. They lay on the fields and in the houses and wait for the arrival of a foreign element that promises to change their lives. It won't be until this arrival that they will be set free.

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A space pod crashes from the sky and a body washes up on an Oceanic shore line; one man the survivor. So begins a journey of discovery. The sea is hostile, the place a paradise and the people strange. Far from ordinary he has experienced many things in his time here understanding happiness, woes, alienation. Unfortunately he did not come alone. Ghosts of past, fears, 'Shadowmen' haunt his every step. A tangible hope and search to find another of his kind turns to desperation as the fading sun quickly descends. As the sunsets the man had lived a lifetime in a day.