Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Conversations, experiences and freedom dreams of a group of women affected by the carceral state, as encountered through the UK government’s hostile environment policy and prison system. This work is drawn from an extensive five-year collaboration between director Rehana Zaman with a group of Black and Global Majority women.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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Developed out of workshops with staff at the biosciences research facility National Horizons Centre, this film explores the wider impact of routine machine processes on human and non-human recipients. Shot on 16mm colour film on location at Teesmouth National Nature Reserve, it focuses on the seal population of Seal Sands.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Why is English such a difficult language to learn? Why do the words have so many different meanings? Is there a way to find the humour in all of this? And should you answer a question with a question?

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Woodshed, a term used by Jazz musicians, refers to private practice in a location where they cannot be heard by anyone else.
Official Selection IndieLisboa 2023
Official Selection Vienna Shorts 2023

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Created in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit, Nothing Can Ever Be The Same is a 168-hour-long real-time generative work, re-imagining the visual archive and music of Brian Eno. Uses a bespoke generative system developed by Dawes and Hustwit to create an ever-changing visual artwork that is unpredictable and defies categorisation.

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A live cinema performance about a world where global cultures are nearing extinction. The protagonists are led by Meenakshi, a ‘cultural cyborg’ built to preserve Indian heritage and create harmony through Indian performative traditions. The immersive visuals consist of 3D video games, AI art and motion captured dance, while presenting an anthology of stories from India in 2079 AD, following a motley crew who playfully connect heritage, science and society through the lens of emergent Indian electro-classical dance music.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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An Augmented Reality exhibition which aims to create a collective experience in public spaces, focusing on what unites and connects us. This virtually connected outdoor exhibition is a collection of interactive artworks from a number of Sweden-based artists, created specifically for our LFF 2023.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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GHOSTS OF SOLID AIR is an experiential Augmented Reality (AR) story that you do on your phone - Voices guide you on a journey from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament. As you move, you encounter a ghost world layered right on top of us all the time - shadows who shimmer in and out vision, haunting the streets and whispering messages into the air. These are people from across time who were radicalised through personal experience and forced into disobedient action.
Obey those in charge at your peril, they say. Speak up! And you will be heard. Through an encounter with those who have been pushed beyond their tipping point - this experience asks: where does disobedience come from? And is it for love or rage that we break peace with the conditions of now? Walk with the ghosts - and decide for yourself.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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An exploratory documentary centred on an historic nonconformist chapel located at the edge of the Pennine moors in Northern England.

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A short film commissioned by Sadler's Wells to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hip-hop as an art form.
This piece, featuring dancer and movement artist Jamal Sterrett Phoenix, comments upon the freedom of expression found within Hip-hop.

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An observation of the benefits system, NEXT IN LINE centres a refugee doctor who is seeking government financial assistance. At her job centre meeting she faces a harrowing decision – either she works as a cleaner or gets sanctioned.

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Following the recent death of an artist friend L from home, who allegedly suffered from schizophrenia for more than 15 years, the artist talks to L through an imagined letter exchange, where they confront each other on notions of home, vulnerability, resistance, memory, and fraught relations. 
Centering on an architectural model of the artist's childhood room, the film is entirely shot on super 8mm and accompanied by an immersive recording at the artist's home, as well as original music from London-based experimental group Langham Research Centre. The film draws from archival footage from journalistic report on May 1968, early artist filmmakers' home videos, as well as makes references to late 60s structural cinema that prioritises light and space, as an autonomous site for resistance.