Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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The brown spots on the pages of old books are called “foxing”. It’s odd to see on 1920s designs that still look “modern”.

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A nightmare in reverie: five young queer people are admitted into a clinic to undergo conversion therapy. Enduring several different and harrowing methods to change their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, the sterile space of abject trauma struggles to suppress the abundance and beauty of queer love.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Frameline 2023

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A woman stumbles upon a group of people who are transfixed, staring up at a ball on a ledge. They encourage her to fetch the ball for them; the young woman obliges, but in doing so accidentally knocks an old woman over. The crowd's reaction is not what she expected...
Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival PÖFF Shorts 2023

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On a quest to produce a genuinely original short film, our filmmakers encounter novel artificial intelligence. What will you see?
The world's first narrative short produced using generative AI - each frame has been rendered by artificial intelligence, an interesting collision with reality.

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A couple watching a horror film about a strangely familiar basement realise they're dreaming when they suddenly find themselves in the very same basement. And that's when it sees them... it knows they shouldn't be awake...
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Slamdance Film Festival 2024 - International premiere

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A moving scrapbook of opinions and advice about love in Sierra Leone.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024 - International premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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Following five queer Nigerians living in the UK as they document their lives through audio diaries. From childhood to the present, participants share stories that explore how universal ideas of family, love, and finding oneself are obfuscated within the intersection of Blackness, African-ness, and Queerness.
Official Selection Encounters International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Winner Short Film Competition

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A heavenly inquiry lands in a village to inspect the sleep of a peasant and his renegade goose. Led by the hums of a spectral apparatus, the visitation detects esoteric frequencies from a spiritual reality cloaked in the peasant's home and land.
Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition

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Part film, part an immersive performance, THE LAST FOREVER is a sprawling narrative - about a spouse that’s gone missing - a story that is fanciful, poignant and always entertaining. This film originates in 35mm slides from garage sales, lab castoffs, flea markets, eBay, as well as artists’ own archives.

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At the dawn of the American West, two men - one a little-known Creole, the other a closeted historical icon - entered into a volatile relationship that spanned a continent.
Official Selection DOK Leipzig 2023

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An experimental short about female desire, shame and betrayal. Drawing from a highly personal experience we follow a vulnerable young woman experiencing a breakdown via a collision of conflicting relationships and gender power struggles.
Using physicality, haunting sound design and immersive camera work as vessels for intimate, multi-layered and unerringly contemporary story telling. Our lead finds herself on a repeating loop, the end is the start as she oscillates between what was and what is. Is she unable to escape her trauma and her psychological suffocation or patterning? The movement echoes the work of Pina Bausch, and in doing so draws links to the expression of the feminist landscape of emotion and conflict that we continue to work through.

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"Only when I was singing did I feel loved...to sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming."
In this experimental film, Maria Callas is transfigured in recordings of different performances - Norma, Tosca and Medea. The film is composed as an audio-visual ICONOSTASIS (a wall of icons) of different archive formats and newly shot footage.
MARIA is a transcendent experimental vision of an icon, artist and woman.