Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist, whose classic publications 'The Wretched of the Earth' (1961) and 'Black Skin White Mask' (1952) became founding texts of the decolonization movement. This film examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the independence struggle in Algeria. Digitally remastered in 2K through the BFI Unlocking Film Heritage programme. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - 2K Restoration World premiere

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Politics and pleasure in the court of King Louis. A Baroque rave where Versailles meets Video. Computer animation for the cognoscenti.

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From a poem by Peter Reading, symbol and sadism meet live-action and stop-motion in this tale of rejection and its aftermath. There’s even a credit for ‘hair knotting on heart‘.

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The found sounds of newstime as the domestic meets disaster and survives. Collage craziness in this abstract exploration of the perils and pleasures of being and staying alive.

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Strangers on a train, points on a journey through the ‘accepted nature of things‘. Fast talking animation scratches the surface of our familiarity as we question the answers we’ve been offered.

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Going down… A brimstone homage to Doré as Dante and Virgil get beneath the surface of things. Human horrors meet hellish retribution in this celluloid engraving.

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With the dark resonance of the nursery rhyme from which it is drawn, this river story probes isolation and imagination, all painted directly onto hard plaster.

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The teenage world via Apple Mac. From childhood loft dreams to the horse latitudes, village life through the eyes of a boy on a bicycle. Conservatism and decay. A black and white film in remembered colour.

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Street life, it’s the only life I know. In this uptempo party piece, xerox, paint and found-sound montage in with Curtis Mayfield, moving on up into fragmented experience.

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Soft bodies, hard landings. Tenement times and the living ain’t easy. Drawing our own conclusions about the city.

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Lust is in the air, everywhere I look around… Sex and shopping, underground thoughts on the underground train, and everywhere capital trying to keep (it) up with desire. Amiga anger about the limits of attraction.

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Man, house, identity. A prison and a freedom. Explorations in the negative space of the manipulated photographic image. Public, private, poetic.