Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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As the camera looks out through a barred window and the clock strikes four in a Swiss city, the death of Yasser Arafat provides the starting point for a journey back in time. Throwing Stones is the third video in the Hotel Diaries series, a collection of late-night recordings made in foreign hotel rooms which relate personal experiences to contemporary world events.

Other works in the series currently include Frozen War (Ireland, October 8th 2001) and Museum Piece (Germany, October 14th 2004).

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Untitled is a metaphor for a sleeping woman in a state of dream or of psychological disintegration. She gradually reassembles, suggesting either a movement from deep dream-like sleep or more likely a pull back from the decision to die. The human capacity to survive terrible terror, whether on an individual level or as a collective persecuted group, sometimes seems to defy understanding.

Bruno Bettelheim, a child psychoanalyst, survived Dachau and Buchenwald but in peacetime, at a mature age, decided to end his own life. It is this choice: the choice, and the possibility, of escaping psychological terror, that enables humans to reconstruct themselves from even extreme disintegration. To paraphrase Nietzche - the thought of suicide gets one through many a long night.

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More than 3,000 insects appear in this film each for a single frame. As the colours glow and change across their bodies and wings it is as if the genetic programme of millions of years is taking place in a few minutes. It is a rampant creation that seems to defy the explanations of evolutionists and fundamentalists. It is like a mescalin dream of Charles Darwin's.

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Billy Hull was a prison officer in The Maze/Long Kesh. Against prison policy Billy collected items from various individuals, incidents and occurrences. On his retirement Billy organised a display of the objects. The public has never seen this collection.

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Cabinet is a meditation on the fetish objects of the Unabomber's story: wilderness, typewriting, cabin, and bomb. The film includes DV and Super 8 footage shot in Montana, archive, computer animation and S16mm live action, a Shaker song, an Edison cylinder recording, and bird song recordings from Cornell University.

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Night vs. light, music vs. motion, figuration vs. abstraction. Flowing, twisted tubes of light collide with dark pools of shadow in this nocturnal prowl through a neon cityscape. Created entirely from digital photographs.

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This documentary presents the architectural concept of 'Cargo Fleet', which juxtaposes materials from the shipbuilding yards of the North East of England into the urban landscape of Islington. The house is revealed through the reflections of a group of people - actors, dancers, musicians, and artists. Their experience of the place unfolds like a tapestry to which the muses themselves then add their voice. The director plays with contrasting forms and styles, weaving music and language together. She reveals the interior and exterior in shifts of mood and ambience, presenting the viewer with an aural and visual feast.

With poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, San Juan de la Cruz and Alexander Pope. Music by Andrew Peggie and Raiomond Mirza.

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Trains pass. A woman runs. The mystery begins.

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A collective film made with the London Bisexual Women's Group. It explores the idea of women and bisexuality through use of live action, animation and sound. A nine-minute experimental piece of work, which uses objects as a starting point in exploring bisexual identity.

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One Sleepless night Ishmael, a young spacey urban nomad, starts counting back through all the beds he has ever slept in.

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Either a Marxist fable for capitalist converts or a long-distance runner's anxiety dream.

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An accident takes place in a busy London street. A crowd gathers, panic and apathy ensue as private fears are made public in an elliptical and fragmentary way. Events cluminate in a moment of decision for one of the main characters, and we are left to consider the influences that have shaped our city life.