Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Survival of the most aesthetic in a synthetic digital universe of constantly evolving coral forms. From cell to psychedelic, this is DNA with attitude, and a reply to all those who did not think there could be life in the machine.

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Face it, the objects have lives. From missionary madness to museum piece, the ‘history’ of rainforest peoples goes under the lens. Time to give it back…

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Sylvia Plath and the essence of the feminine. Fertility and regeneration in a dazzling multi-media landscape. Beauty with edges.

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Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th Century painting of slaves in chains called 'Scene on the Coast of Africa'. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera. Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama 40

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A dream life of angels. What wings really mean. The wise wound and its belly music. Desire is vulvic and creativity claims the calendar of bodies.

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A day in the life – crossing the sprawl for dinner. 3D sets and model/drawn/photo animation make a city. And the guy in the gantry isn’t just cleaning windows…

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Hot time, summer in the city… A hued thought in a green shade – the life of a square from flesh to ‘paint’ via video. 24 hours of light.

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Well met by moonlight – room service for the spirit. A one-take dream in Cocteauesque monochrome.

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Grotesque Wild West goes vaudeville. Prairie tales in stark, dark ink to outrage and illuminate. Six 3-minute episodes: Slim Pickin’s – poor ole’ Josh finds he’s the victim of false promises. That’s Nothin’ – a few of the boys get together in the saloon. Murder! – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The silent majority get their way. High Noon – Clint and Chuck face each other out in the final showdown. The Conformist – “If you want to fit in around here, you best do what’s expected of yer.” Outrage – The whole of Joseville is disgusted by the behaviour of their young folk.

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Mona Hatoum left Beirut in 1975 for a short visit to London. When war broke out in the Lebanon she found it impossible to return. In this video, letters from her mother in Beirut, written in Arabic, move across the screen. They are read aloud, in English, by the artist. Hatoum's mother is also heard, speaking openly about her feelings and sexuality, accompanied by images of her in the shower. Hatoum's video suggests exile and displacement. She has said it also challenges 'the stereotype of Arab women as passive, mother as non-sexual being'.

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Young men find themselves scattered and defencelessly exposed to a merciless sun. Their gaze moves off searchingly into the distance. Deserted places appear to offer vague promises of refuge. On a prison wall, an explosive image of desire emerges, full of hope for freedom. Constantine Giannaris relishes in mixing light and colour with the textures of Super 8 and video footage to express the thoughts of the poet Jean Genet. Greatly affected by the AIDS epidemic, he addresses the desire for love as well as the threat of isolation and death in a restless cinematographic delirium. Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama 40

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In their seminal, intersectional first feature, directors Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien incisively interrogate Black British experience, fusing dramatic scenes of family life with documentary and mystical elements, to give richly imaginative witness to a ‘post-colonial’ identity that encompasses generational, class, sexual and gender differences. Vividly manipulated footage of urban unrest, police brutality, gay rights marches and the miners’ strike, alongside chopped-up sequences showing a buzzing London night life, are intertwined, creating a penetrating example of Sankofa’s disruptive critique of 1980s Britain. And it looks fantastic. The film screens in a simultaneous transatlantic premiere with the New York Film Festival. (London Film Festival)