Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Ecology is a feature film in three parts, three characters and three stories to be screened in any order: the stories of a mother, a daughter and a son, on holiday in Majorca. This is not the Majorca of package holidays but a writer's retreat, in a location solar powered and environmentally responsible. Delivered as three internal monologues narrated as voice-over, we are caught in the rhythms of an urgent repetition of events past and scraps of imagined dialogue directed at but never spoken to an other. Appearing to reference a debate on the ethics of the environment, Ecology innovatively turns the idea towards the ethics of psychic recycling, the debris passed on and re-circulated among people.

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Headspace is an experimental short film that draws parallels between faith based forms of meditative chanting and chanting enjoyed by football fans at a game.

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Fragmented vignettes weave and divide in a film that plays with Hollywood's portrayal of cancer.

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Simon Eaves' experimental and unique animated style depicts the surreal world of a man who wishes to escape only to find that he is less free when he does. Slavestakingly created using individual hand treated frames. Simon Eaves creates a surreal and beautiful world.

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We went down, we went down (how far who knows).

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Written by the director aged 12, now 35 - about events when aged 21. Tormented offspring of half-remembered adventure movies with a tail sting. Me and the boss discover Dodo island, I face a deadly struggle with my nemesis the demented sea scorpion and finally the terrible truth is revealed.

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A docudrama about the life of musician Schneider TM.

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A visual portrait of the disabled avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, as represented by his environment. The film is a very personal movement through Steve's past and present, as seen through the house he has lived in for the last 30 years and the objects within it that both surround and represent him - as an individual living with a disability, and as an artist-filmmaker who has enjoyed a long and successful career.

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Runner takes its audience as close as possible to the mental and physical experience of running a marathon through sound and the moving image. Using material from the 'Great North Run' in England and combining this with specially shot sequences of a single runner, it follows the journey of a man, one soul in the flood of 50,000.

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A very short meditation on the street as canvas.

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I'm not aware of you taking my skin, says the artist's mother to the camera as it zooms in on her eye as close as the lens will allow. Taking My Skin tracks a dialogue between the artist and her mother. Their exchange ranges from narrating the filming process 'in the moment' to relations in an earlier time - 'how long do you think it takes for a child to become separate?' Throughout the journey film spaces continuously dissolve and collapse only to separate again. Sometimes the artist is behind the camera, sometimes the mother, sometimes both simultaneously behind and in front, or neither. Both perform, film, and alternately instruct, position and direct the other. Formally and thematically, the film is an exploration of closeness, of synching, and the threat this poses to the self.

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In the woods behind the trees a world of death awaits. Years ago, nine people went missing and were never seen again. Then the woods were closed, but on the eve of their re-opening the police throw open the gates and let people in, not able to fortell the consequences: death for the people who enter the woods.