Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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An experimental short film that explores the theme of female rivalry within the patriarchal arena. Trapped in a vicious circle fuelled by envy and jealousy, a theatre understudy transcends and finally confronts the real source of her dark emotions.

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An immersive installation and Virtual Reality animated and interactive artwork focussed on reproductive diseases and pain that women experience: endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, Ovarian and other cysts, cervical, ovarian, uterine and endometrial cancers. The sensory and emotional experience moving from the outside in within a real dome space into VR space, with a 3D audio soundscape of the voices and stories of real women recounting their experiences, making it an intimate, emotional and possibly haunting experience, with accompanying wearable haptic garment providing a visceral vibration responsive on the lower abdomen, where the various diseases occur.

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A short film that, through lip-syncing, depicts the traumatising stories of queer performers Soroya, Harry and Kenya and their emotional journey to adulthood. The film explores themes of loneliness, anxiety, trauma and recovery, all common issues within the LGBT+ community. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 Official Selection Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg 2022

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Equal parts systems literacy and kaleidoscopic ecological fantasia - an essay film about butterflies, computer viruses and all the things they touch. Official Selection Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2022

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Someone who we never see – a 'nobody' – tries to tend to their plants, but persistent inner voices draw them into an alienating place with the promise of communication through pure thought. Where are we in this vision? Are we an observer of this experience, or experiencing it ourselves? Where is the division between us? Official Selection Annecy International Animation Festival 2022

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This film is based on a walk undertaken by Poet Amanda White in West Penwith, Cornwall. She left her home at night in very bad weather, without telling anyone, without knowing where she was going and - most significantly - without knowing why she was going.

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Nobody drowned. A poem about the 1910 Paris flood, with photographs of Paris and Parisians taken at the time.

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The inevitability of separation, loss and death are explored through an introspective written monologue and a selection of stills, moving images and written text.

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A hand-drawn sequential telling of human history in all its horror and glory, culminating in our next evolutionary leap. CUTIES explores the elusive beauty in how we as a species continue forward in spite of our proclivity for destruction.

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I AM GOOD AT KARATE follows a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate, wandering around a housing estate in East Kent locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon made of football shirts.

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ISADORA is an exploration of time and place. The film started from an accidental discovery of found film footage, suggesting to be the only film existing of a performance of Isadora Duncan. The place is presented impossibly as the Parthenon. As in the original found film footage there is a blurring of realities. In the film the narrator’s voice changes gender as a chorus using words from the diary of Isadora Duncan: her memory describes an experience of what Freud later calls Derealisation, recalled during his own transcendent experience visiting the Parthenon. Transfixed by the power of the image and the disconnect from reality, her words fragile from the time of the grand tour where the European took places as their own.

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MOVING BARCELONA is a magical realist dance story about the Catalonian capital, an autonomous region in the Spanish State contending with an identity crisis. A city with everything going for it is still haunted by the ghosts of its past and despite much progress, it finds itself unearthing old wounds. Narrated by celebrated actor, Pep Munné, who appeals for calm, there is a sense of reassurance that all is okay. The movement of the city however tells a different story, and he is resigned to the fact that things inevitably, are the way they are. Barcelonians, in pursuit of happiness, find themselves on a treadmill to nowhere in a tale of modern day life. MOVING BARCELONA is the eighth film in an award-winning collection of works by the London-based film-maker, Jevan Chowdhury to capture the world as a stage. Life on the street in London, Paris, Brussels, Dallas, Prague, Yerevan and Athens have all been recorded in this growing canon.