Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Haunted by unanswered questions about himself, Olly journeys through his past. His story unfolds in two starkly contrasting realms: the raw simplicity of his childhood, captured in his own drawings, and the fluid, surreal world of his dreams. We glimpse the fractured memories of his early years: an abusive father, a mother lost in the haze of the past, and his sister Sally, a beacon who urged him to find escape and control within his own imagination, transforming nightmares into refuges from reality. Official Selection Raindance Film Festival 2025 - World premiere Official Selection Venice International Film Festival (Biennale Cinema) 2025 - International premiere

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A poetic memoir and political report, shot in Berlin and Leipzig, and in landscapes around the British Isles. The film’s narrative builds out from the events of the Reichstag Fire in Berlin in 1933 in which the pioneering German-Jewish sound recordist, Ludwig Koch, on whom the film ultimately centres, plays a minor role, placing him and his family in danger. The film is structured in two parts, juxtaposing Koch’s persecution in Nazi Germany with his experiences as a refugee recording bird song and other sounds in Britain. The film’s images of contemporary urban and rural terrains, and of objects and documents, create a collision between past and present. Shifts in time are further emphasised through the use of Koch’s original sound recordings from Germany and Britain which feature throughout the film.

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A dark, tactile and contaminated film. Toxic chemicals and pollutants build up within the human body. A spray painted work on paper with other animated elements. Official Selection Ottawa International Animation Festival 2025

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Exploring the perspective of a teenage, neurodivergent, working-class runaway, seeking refuge and sanctuary from a normative society, in the seemingly desolate dunelands of the Glamorgan coast. These dunes, until very recently, have been a disregarded and remote place, considered by all but a few enthusiasts to be little more than wasteland.

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A group of teenagers fall desperately in love with the same person. As their attempts to impress their crush and one-up each other get more and more dramatic, conflict is inevitable. Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2025 - Official Competition

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The stars have always captured our imagination, and the latest advances in space travel and telescopy are creating images that are both stunning in detail and have profound learnings hidden within. This unique immersive experience takes participants from looking up at the night sky to the depths of outer space, through images from the James Webb Space Telescope. The immersive XR experience journeys through breathtaking, high-resolution imagery like never before, hearing insights from the scientists working with NASA and ESA on what the images reveal, and how they are shaping our understanding of the cosmos. An immersive journey through the cosmos on Apple Vision Pro. Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - World premiere

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An interactive single screen video installation - Visitors move around the floorplan of a Taiwanese house. As you step into a room, the video projection switches to show that room. As you explore the house, you discover the history of a couple who lived there. They have returned to their deserted home to tidy up the secrets they hold from each other. The work is both a closed loop and a story that unfolds progressively. The order in which you explore the rooms opens up different interpretations. A vivid cinematic work that follows the logic of dreams as you wander through the debris of a relationship breakdown. Official Selection SXSW Film & TV Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Aella embodies the essence of the wind-restless, elusive, and perpetually in motion. Driven by a deep-seated fear of stillness, she seeks refuge on the coast. In the midst of this turmoil, an agoraphobic older woman observes Aella's manic movements on the beach and descends to offer solace.

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Constantinopoliad is an expanded documentary and installation that centers around the collective reading of a hand-made book. A response to the archive of the poet Constantine Cavafy, the story is inspired by the blank and torn out pages in “Constantinopoliad, an epic”, the journal the teenage Cavafy began when he and his family fled Alexandria; by lost and missing queer archives through time; and by the ghosts, both erotic and historical, that visit the older Cavafy in his poems.

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An immersive 360° film poem from the heart of a Cornish temperate rainforest. The voice of the Mother Tree introduces us to the sounds, sights and more-than-human characters of the ancient woodland, encouraging us to think of time as trees do, in hundreds or even thousands of years.

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An emotive Mixed Reality performance which uses Volumetric Capture to display a virtual dancer who interacts with, and occupies the same space as a live performer - allowing her to duet with a digital double. REPLICA asks you to consider human issues around liveness, mortality, memory and ageing - exploring how we present ourselves and connect with each other in a world of growing digitisation. Official Selection ART*VR 2025

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In 2024, 82 people are known to have died crossing the English Channel while seeking safety in the UK - the deadliest year on record. This film offers an evocative contemplation on the politics and spatiality of bordering, archiving the sites, textures, and tactile architecture of the border in the port town of Dover, confronting how borders inhabit and shape our relationship to place.