Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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'in that sleep of death, what dreams may come' (Shakespeare). Shot in varying live and object stop-frame formats, Jamais Vu depicts an individual's descent into his own madness, capturing the perverse poetry of insanity by using motifs of dream, blackout, amnesia and final annihilation. As we enter the opening dream, we witness the protagonist's (Antonio O) fall into the self-referential world of the Cellar, a place where objects seem to have their own malicious intent. Trapped within the unknown space, Antonio O struggles to hold onto some sense of his own self. He starts to have flashbacks of his forgotten memories which become so vivid that he can not handle any more and as he collapses, he regurgitates all of his memory into a book and breathes his last breath. Ultimately, though, we realise that the Cellar is the main protagonist.

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The setting is the London Underground. The film passes through real places and transforms in and out abstract shapes and forms. The music and the images are presented as equal elements in balance and harmony with each other. The film was created using a unique production process with the director/animator also working as the score composer. The images were designed as a reaction to the music.

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About a business relationship.

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From chopping board to dining table the film follows the preparation, delivery, and consumption of a tasteful snail's dessert.

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Body disintegration and distortion becomes metaphor for the breakdown of certainties. I perform sounds of the body in the process of painting, filming and struggling with the material. Image and sound collapse and the atmosphere of decay is emphasised by heightened film 'noise', while 'found' sound extends the idea of inseparability between individual and environment.

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In the aftermath of a decision impossible to reverse, political debate is submerged in an ambient world of photoshoot, marimba and birdsong.

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The poem Kissing in hats is a villanelle, a verse form where the regular repetition of two key lines gives added urgency to what is being said. The effect is intensified here by double tracking of the speaker's voice, as a moving path scans a drawing of World War Two lovers kissing in hats before the men must board their train. This is a new version with the text of the poem on screen.

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The sea is intentionally murderous. The beach and surf are as a lure and weapon against the unwary.

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A ‘film fragment’ eschewing any straightforward narrative intention, causation or chronological structure.

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Shot in 2006 in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the film tracks through the Near Eastern, African and Oceanic collections, offering fleeting glimpses of statues, bowls and historical artefacts.

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Divis Tower and Mountain and a dead rapper

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Harmony and chaos meet in a mechanism of rythms and lights. The birth and death of a surreal environment in which familiar game-like rules drive the action's tightly synchronised evolution. A single oscillating dot becomes an abstract musical machine which plays itself using glowing orbs before exploding into particles which collapse together as the cycle completes.