Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Synopsis

An unusual assignment for a young man paid to honour other people's dead.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2021

Synopsis

Does school prepare you for adult life? Does hardship build character? A personal and unconventional documentary about a teacher who left deep scars on the psyche of his former pupils.

Synopsis

Past time, suspended time. Macro vision serves as a tool to experience what has long been known. Perceptual tension between the in and out of focus, between enquiry and observation, abstraction and representation persuade the body to look and experience more intently. At once disturbing and nostalgic, the soundtrack lures the viewer into a claustrophobic and apocalyptic space as we have to find new ways of being with the world. Filmed and recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown in Waterlow Park, London and Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire.

Synopsis

..and sharing is caring, two neighbours' motto and habit of sharing, being there for each other continues during the global pandemic with a dancy bucket. I want to question our vision of care and screendance as means of sharing kinestethic experiences and perspectives.

Synopsis

Clara's thoughts on isolation.

Synopsis

Based on a true story, HERMIT is a film poem which follows a man without a home and who has no desire for one. Afraid of permanency, he lives in a nightmare of endless transition, going aimlessly from job to job. HERMIT questions contemporary notions of belonging in a temporary and unsettled world, taking us on a journey through the fears of this strangely detached existence.

Synopsis

The Hippies were a bizarre English punk band formed in '79 by the Hulse children, Toby (12), Matt (11) and Polly (8). Their cassette album 'A Sound for the Future' featured songs about disease, assassination and the Antarctic.
"Stop eating toast and singeing your legs by the gas fire. Get up and do something!" (Ruth Pendragon, Mother, Manager, Guru), 1979. The Hippies performed ticketed live shows for their mother’s kindly but chaotic group of Cambridge friends; the homeless, drunks, animal rights activists, junkies, cross-dressers and gay Franciscan friars.

The Hippies then and now. What truly happened back in the past and whose side of the story should be told? Especially as the film’s director was the band's 11-year-old drummer? Matt’s mum Ruth, maverick, mystic, manager, plays a pivotal role in the bigger picture, offering an insight into a time of personal and social upheaval, both for her and her family in Thatcher’s Britain.

Using music of the period, archive, animation and poetic reimaginings of key moments, Matt Hulse explores a part-remembered, kaleidoscopically fractured, family history, through an energetic, jarring, ride; part performance, part art, part process, post-punk.

Synopsis

A man is found drowned in a few inches of water. His only ID is his tattoo.

Synopsis

Bill Clinton’s strange legacy as President of the United States and ringmaster of the 1990s is a confounding mess of public amnesia, nostalgia, and scorn. WILLIAM JEFFERSON WILDERNESS is a personal exploration that legacy, and of the tangled process of consigning a former political hero to history.

DOK Leipzig • International Competition • World Premiere
St. Louis International Film Festival • Official Selection
Florida Film Festival • Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant Garde

Synopsis

By presenting a poetic expression of the interrelationship between the artist and the inspiration of flowers as a dynamic artistic sensibility, FLOWER DUET is exploring sustainability and global warming issues through this experimental hand-painted (pastel/water colour) animated poem film from the director’s artist point of view.

Synopsis

This film follows a personal and intimate journey exploring the repression experienced by the filmmaker during her childhood when she faced sexual control in Damascus. Through the creative use of family archive mixed with current footage of her body she reconstructs the pain of the past absorbed by her body.

Synopsis

A rumination on the cause and effect of climate change, using the medium of the collage film, and accompanied by a strong degree of musical counterpoint.