Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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A man wakes in a field with a bloody wound to the head. The only clue to his forgotten identity is a wallet and a photograph. Tracing his footsteps he discovers clues that lead to the truth - who he is really.

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Heather loves her mom, but does her mum know what love is?

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A film poem about London in the last hours of the twentieth century. It is composed of documentary footage shot between midday and midnight on 31st December 1999.

I shot it in black and white at 16 fps and telecine-ed it at 25 fps in order to give it the jerky look of an old Edwardian film.

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A dealing with the Orwellian concept of enforced surveillance, inspired by the increasing appearance of CCTV through the 1990s in the South East of England where the film was shot. The subsequent explosion of reality TV has added a further dimension; where the question isn’t so much who-watches-the-watchers, as who-is-left-to-watch.

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Immaterial Terrain is made along a stretch of the UK coast around Sizewell nuclear power station. Camera in hand, Richardson walked this coastline. These walks – pilgrimages and acts of protest – structure a film that documents a singular and fragile landscape at an uncertain moment.
Official selection Slow Film Festival, London - World premiere

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Mervyn is deaf and recently has become blind. Mervyn perseveres through this. The lifecycle of a butterfly, memory and the simple act of making a cup of tea are entwined in this film. What is the sound of the sea to a man who has never heard?

Awards
RTS Student Award

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Doctor Fogger m.d. the Medical Deviate has his staff on the look out for fresh corpses, after his escape from a military outpost, a group of photographers become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the reanimation of the living dead.

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a man, no horse, no gun

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Kaleidoscopics brings together pornographic stills from the internet and bubbles at the edge of running water, putting both through the same digital processes. Eyes, faces and limbs surface and sink again in sequences of coloured tessellations, lead by a music soundtrack that overlays breathy sound with formal patterning.

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An Edwardian gentleman is tormented by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wall paper. The film was fully-funded by the London Production Fund 2001.

'G.M.' was inspired by the work of magician and film pioneer Georges Melies (1861-1938), whose most famous film - 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' - was exactly one hundred years old in 2001.

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An experiment in personal history. The footage was shot in the London docklands, and its trains and bridges prompt a meditation on nationality, identity and language, spoken in German with English subtitles. The speaker's first words, in German, are " I don't speak German".

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A troubled teenager purges her abusive past in a dream of her own making.