Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Trina is a mortician, and has the job of making the dead look good for their funeral. Her daily routine is turned on its head when she discovers her next client, lying on the slab, is her father, who disappeared when she was young. Sometimes it's difficult to really connect with your parents. Words don't come easy, and at times they don't come at all. For trina, it's now or never.

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The Mood is the story of a man who, on unleashing his pent-up anger, watches in horror as his bad mood spreads like an infection. 

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A man, a woman, a pair of shoes.

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Patrick and Rose, an elderly couple, break into the derelict swimming pool where they first met as teenagers. A romantic drama in which the past is as alive as the present.  

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A quiet lament of an illegal alien's private grief over a shattered dream. The film intends to personify one of the many familiar yet anonymous Chinese faces one comes across when passing through London's China Town, and his humble dreams and desires - things which are taken for granted as basic necessities among people from the West.

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As a special effects artist, Christine's mindset is that everything is correctable - Twisted, original and arresting, Undo strikes a chord with anyone who wishes they could erase life's problems.

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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 neurotic stop-frame analysis of the daily torture of the desk-bound being, freeze-frame tensions disrupting the film’s surface and material.

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A melancholy journey through a nebulous urban landscape. The film’s elliptic and fantastical progress along a universe parallel to the A13 trunk road takes place in the mind of a dying dog sniffing its way back to its birthplace in Barking.

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A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street Project and London’s Scene & Heard theatre groups, the film is voiced by professional adult actors and directed to render the children’s dramatic intentions as sincerely as possible. Three short films within one film: Revenge Is Cold – Woody the box of matches dreams of becoming a lighter. In the Mexican desert he encounters Antus, an untrustworthy cactus, who claims he can help him fufil his ambitions. Together they journey to ‘The Land of the Freeze’ – the North Pole – where a surprise is in store for both of them. Love Then First Fight – Bob Brakinlot the crowbar is a reformed criminal, determined to give himself a second chance. Into his world bursts Blossom Shritz, a shirt whose life has been torn apart. Desperate for acceptance and affection, they seem to offer each other “a chance to be average in a nasty world“. But can they both put the past behind them? Keep Going – A young egg, Stuart, escapes from his fridge in Scotland on a mission to meet his hero, Michael Jackson.

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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.