Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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The isolated mountainous region of Tusheti, in Northeast Georgia, is the site for a reflection on the importance of ritual, the maintenance of community ties, and how modernisation and migration are transforming rural landscapes. Shot over several years, Let Us Flow uses inovative audio-visual techniques to make visible the symbolic and physical division of sacred spaces within the community and offers a nuanced perspective on a culture where ancestral shrines are only accessible to men. In a verdant mountainous region of Georgia, tradition and modernity intertwine. Carrying on the traditions of their ancestors, the men in the film race on horseback down mountains and across wide, expansive valleys in a performance of masculinity. The filmmaker states, “As the film progresses it becomes a film about distance: the twenty meter distance the Tushetian women have to observe from their shrines, the distance between me and my protagonists, between languages and translation.” Medoidze is never seen in front of the camera, made visible only through her voice. Yet even with this distance between her and her subjects the film, as shot from her perspective, makes for a truly immersive piece of observational filmmaking.

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An exploration of recursive patterns, a series of repeated sequences, flickering images and looping sounds. On the surface, REPETITIONS concentrates on inducing retinal excitement and states of anticipation, but telephone messages and speech provide a through line that speaks to physical labour, industrial work and fragile bodies. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - Tiger Shorts - World premiere

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Music from central Africa is used to modify the size of black and white squares which cover the whole screen and change 25 times each second.

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Set within the fictional smart city of SimBeijing, the CGI animation follows a self-driving car as they discuss their troubles with their built-in therapy program called Guanyin. The video is made within the custom-made virtual world of SimBeijing: an intelligent replica of the Chinese capital built to test self-driving cars. In this fictional scenario, the smart city has turned into a ghost town. Accompanied by CGI drive-through renders of SimBeijing, the narrator of this video is the eponymous ‘Theta’, a self-driving police car who patrols the streets of an uninhabited cityscape. Over the course of their dialogue with Guanyin, Theta reveals the darker reasons behind why the city has been abandoned... Continuing Lawrence Lek’s ongoing ‘Sinofuturist’ cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of nonhuman life. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

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As Yuvel Noah stated in a ‘brief history of humankind’ ’ Unlike any other species on the planet, Human beings have created a whole system made up of just imaginary ideas.’ The question is have we used them wisely?

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An immersive audio-driven film that asks you to listen. Why is it that BPoC communities in the UK do not feel like they belong in the outdoors? The film is based on audio interviews taken from a group of BPoC women outdoor activists who are changing the story.

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When a disabled, unemployed mechanic is prejudicially denied the chance of applying for a job he’s best fit for, we’re taken on a musical journey of 80's Disco & Ballroom, through his anger and frustration (alongside his disabled peers) calling for access and change.

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Architects gaze out across oceans. Away from the land, their intentions grow focused. In the flurry of debate, the cities of the future emerge. A hand-printed film. Official Selection Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart 2023

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The colonial project produced billions of images of ‘exotic’ women and distributed them worldwide. This collage-film poses the question whether these images can be seen from new perspectives to reveal not only their violent and constructed nature, but also the presence of the invisible image-maker.

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A mixed media video art and music piece combining visual art, graphic design, music, poetry, film and field recordings. The piece is an examination of a traumatic event documented in real time through creative expression.

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A system of stencils or "mattes" act as the films visual and spatial script. The images which are pushed through the mattes fluctuating grid system, were documented over the course of a 12 hour day. Through this puzzle, relationships form and new roots emerge. Matte study was edited "in camera".

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A short animated documentary that explores the experience of telling the world that you are autistic when you also identify as LGBTQ+. Official Selection Kaboom Animation Festival 2023