Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Michael, a young hustler with a resentment towards God, experiences the ultimate test of faith when he finds his girlfriend unconscious.

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From Arthur Rimbaud’s enigmatic poems 'War and Fragments' of Folio 12, comes a stark warning to an age where time – fragmented, decontextualised and stored as optical or auditory data – accumulates, while memory fades. Official Selection Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen - World premiere

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The animation combines hand drawings inspired by bio-medical imagery with creative coding, which animates drawings in response to the soundtrack data. Coding and data seemed particularly relevant for the subject matter of the pandemic, because we use data and algorithms to model and predict future outbreaks.

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Set and filmed at the Royal Pavilion Brighton, this artist film is a postcolonial response to chinoiserie. Historical individuals from Taiwan, China and Britain question, fail to understand, argue and disagree with each other over the representation of Chineseness in chinoiserie in-situ.

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AN INTERMISSION is a portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness. For over a year and a half, they worked collaboratively with artist Edwin Mingard to make a film to express their views to the wider world. Official Selection IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) 2020

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ART CLASS is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title, favouring wit over weaponizing and reflection over rhetoric but does not pull its punches when it comes to the real obstructions to working class creative progress.

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The only British guerrilla-shot homage to the short-lived, acid-western sub-genre of the countercultural era ever made promises a kaleidoscope of blood, guns, satanic nymphs and psychedelic frenzy! A bounty retrieval gone wrong sees gun for hire Caine Farrowood face his toughest challenge yet as he faces a mysterious stranger who holds the key to the truth of his fate.

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Up until now, the list of people I’ve kissed in the dark has been comprised of two names. Both male. But with the witching season approaching, all that is about to change. Official Selection Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2022

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In the isolation of lockdown, a young man stays in contact with the outside world through voice messages, sent by friends and lovers. Those messages seem to fill his void, till he finds himself inhabited by a multitude of lonely beings. His only way out, is finding his own voice.

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A film highlighting the joy of reclaiming your trans body. Rowyn explores their journey of top surgery through music and dance, showing the difference of feeling at ease in your own body. We are all a work in progress, and progress for trans people is incredibly meaningful.

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A visual approximation surrounding the learning or relearning of sight through bionic implants. As we view diffuse abstracted visuals, based on real footage, the soundtrack reveals that we’re sharing the experience of someone in a fictional medical experiment.

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This hypnotic VR narrative unfolds around 5 characters, increasingly struggling to access their uploaded memories. Set in a breathtaking visual landscape, this dystopian future unravels slowly around you, leaving you challenged to re-think your own beliefs and actions. It’s an exploration of a possible future that says much about our present lives. Imagine a world where there is no air left to breathe, no rivers to race a paper boat on and no parks to roam in. Environmental damage, job-automation, the breakdown of personal connections have led to a future where the best choice of survival is to upload your own memories into an automated AI cloud server and reconnect with loved ones in the vastness of the net. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021