Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Destricted is the first compliation of its kind, a series of short films created by seven of the world's most provocative artists and filmmakers - Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Wood, Marina Abramovic, Marco Brambilla and Gaspar Noé.   Revealing the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves sexually, Destricted explores the intersection of art and pornography. By highlighting controversial issues about the representation of sexuality in art, the seven filmmakers question whether art can be disguised as pornography, and pornography as art or as something else altogether.   The result is a collection of explicit, stimulating, challenging, provocative, strange and sometimes humorous scenarios that leave it up to the viewer to decide. As compelling and contentious within the art world, as in the film industry, Destricted was among Artforum magazine's 'Best of 2005', an official selection for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and the 45th International Critics' Week at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.  Destricted's first public screening will be at Tate Modern, London in September 2006 to mark its release on DVD and digital platform viewing.

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Set on a militant horticultural nursery, Guilty By Nature follows the life cycle of a wild and vigorous shrub; exploring ideas of individuality and persecution. The film is shot with extreme close-ups, varied frame rates and an exaggerated soundscape.  

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A man hears a story about a hitchhiker from the other side of the Internet.

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in 1905, Women in Queensland got the vote. Banned from male only pubs and bars, certain Women met in secret every full moon to talk politics and drink. One hundred years later, the civilised centenary of this infamous club takes place. However, events take a turn back to the old days, when a notorious guest finally arrives.

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I'm not 40 yet but I'm forward-thinking. A special collaboration between the director, aged 12 years, and his 34 year old self, both looking forward to a glorious future as a 40 year old conservation hero and Lamborghini owner. Made with six years to go!

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Performer is an experimental short film made in an unique stylized way. A man runs through a forest. Another figure runs in the distance. They chase each other through a series of environments and through ever increasing obstacles. Finally they face each other head-to-head.

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Springsummer is a digitally treated short film documenting Kei Kagami's Spring/Summer 04 collection. Fashion photographer Enamul and graphic designer Matt Moate have previously worked together on numerous photographic projects but this film represents their first collaboration in moving image. Springsummer seeks to explore the emotive undercurrents of Kagami's groundbreaking work in a delicate fusion of imagery and abstraction played out to a blistering original soundtrack by sound designer Rob Mullender.

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Abstract short animation. Based on subliminal rhythms, derived from the conflict and discord of corporate imposition, depicted through Visual and musical orchestration. The musical score becomes a complex visual evolving abstraction, reflecting the emotive energy and primeval drive of the music. Utilising hand drawn animation, 2D and 3D computer graphics, painting and video.

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A love story of obsession and sharp teeth between a woman left behind in a fairy tale gone wrong and a merman trapped in a reality that drowns him. She, the hunter; She, the trembling little fish.

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Tehran Trace takes the same motion path slowly and silently across four still photographs; the foyer of the Hotel Laleh, the Mirror Hall of the Golestan Palace, a stone arch towards the north of the city, and a bazaar with a view of mountains. Each 'trace' begins close up, curves away from its opening subject and ends with the original image fully framed.

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A day in the life of a traditional shoemaker - seen throughout the process of making a pair of shoes, then off for a walk in the countryside.

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A wry animated documentary about how Holocaust tourism distorts history. A whistlestop tour from Auschwitz hot-dogs to Krakow's kitsch Judaica.