Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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With the weather increasingly at the forefront of our news and media together with the idea that someone somewhere has their hand on the volume knob, End of the Street takes the original 19th Century Beaufort Wind Force scale and conjures a response, incrementally turning up the strangeness. Poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan produced the poetry specially. His interpretation of the wind scale transposes the action into the familiar surroundings of an average street. Imagemaker Andy Martin produces a mix of animated graphics, 3D, live action, photography and typographics all underpinned with a bespoke score by composer Robert Worby.

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Performance film, The Challenge night show. With live acts, dance, live music, jamming and more. Filmed at the Masonic Hall, Hastings/St Leonards, East Sussex

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An experimental essay film that contrasts two separate murder scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and Mary Harron's "American Psycho" in order to make a statement about film censorship.

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Filmed at the Demilitarized Zone on the border between North and South Korea, the work 38TH PARALLEL seeks to portray the particular reality of this contested site. It is a reality marked by an eerie sense of latency. Constantly alert, constantly inert, North and South face each other in a stalemate situation sealed by a cease-fire agreement 55 years ago. In her video, Davies operates in this void. Working with the United Nations Armistice Commission and the United States Armed Forces in Korea, she shows how political reality manifests itself here, beyond representation, in the ways how space is structured and time is regimented in this militarized environment. Facing each other across the turnpike, for instance, border guards of both sides execute the silent ceremonies of authority proscribed by their military protocol. It’s choreography of empty gestures enacted on the stage of a deserted strip of land and bleak interrogation rooms. Davies then shows the local epicentre of conflict of global proportions to be a non-place where power manifests itself in ghostly acts of decorum performed in suspended time.

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A live action documentary experimental film shot edited and perforned by Hastings (East Sussex) artists including the director Barbara Parise aka Lady Plush and Cosmic Bird official multidisciplinary artist. An avalanche of intrepid performances live music, dance and live acts!

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Language and property crumble in an exploration of the impact of coastal erosion on the people and landscape of North Norfolk. Concentrating on the small villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, the film combines interviews, field recordings and archive footage.

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'Across the Valley was shot, and the sound gathered, between July 2004 and January 2006, in the Cevennes, in the south of France. The film is from a single vantage point, a small area of flatness on the side of a steep valley. I filmed the view of the landscape from this point, through three of the four seasons, as well as elements of the scene closer to the camera. The resulting film draws on, and develops, my existing interests in the time-based representation of simultaneity, and in the temporal and sequencing possibilities inherent to film editing,' (Director Nick Collins).

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A diarist searches for flickers of hope in a drama of technical and emotional obsession.

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Filmmaker Terra Miller documents 24 hours in the life of would be London neo-revolutionary Isabella Beretta. As we follow her life we learn she has plans to burn the city of London to the ground and install a people's government.

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What do you think about in the time betweeen sleep and awake? Blinds is a visual merging of internal thoughts and external influences in a life. A complex composition involving 75 interacting layers which produce a series of curious juxtapositions.

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A journey around the block of an animated landscape. A composition made of audiovisual life extracts and mixed realities that will walk your imagination all the way. Diverse as daily life, this short explores several animation and editing techniques, bringing together experiences from all visual arts. Seat and enjoy the view.

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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.