Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Different forms of communication are explored when a filmmaker attempts to find the name of a dead person they discovered behind their flat in Glasgow.

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Taking its starting point the rapid drying of the Dead Sea, SINKHOLES is a dystopian vision of a world in which water has become scarce. Threading together ideas of entropy and the inhuman, SINKHOLES meditates on our desire both for survival and resignation in the face of extinction.

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A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a man visiting his dying father in a sanatorium to the edge of a mythic forest. The Quay Brothers third feature film - a tale told through puppet animation and live-action, inspired by the book 'The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' by Bruno Schulz.
Official Selection Venice Days 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025

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STRANGEWAYS floats and flows beyond our own strangled world. It’s where corridors twist into gardens, and fingers scribble sketches of dreams. Creatures, plants, earth, junk (and the stuff in the gaps between them) all converse with different voices, share wild thoughts, and explore strange ways together.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2024 - Venice Immersive - In Competition - World premiere

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A man's solitary life in a Scottish highland forest is portrayed through the changing seasons, with occasional encounters disrupting his otherwise isolated existence.
The director revisits forest-dwelling hermit Jake Williams, the subject of his earlier film TWO YEARS AT SEA (2011).
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024
Official Selection CPH:DOX 2025

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In a dreamlike, candy-coloured landscape, two women discover they possess the ability to turn into animals. As they continuously morph into different creatures, the dark secrets of the land begin to unfurl themselves.

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Taking inspiration from the haunting Japanese subversive art form Butoh, the film offers a cinematic interpretation of this singular style of expression. With high contrast, exaggerated grain, abstracted colours and flickering frames, A MONSTER WITH ITS MOUTH AGAPE captures the unsettling and chaotic climate of post-war Japan. Featuring a rare audio recording of Butoh master Yoshito Ohno.
Official Selection Beijing International Short Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 - European premiere

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The “parts” are a painting of my own from some time ago, a waveform whose origin I don't remember, and a travelling letter “x” that suggests a stitch bringing them together, though what actually does so is almost certainly the Bach soundtrack.

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Every year, in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy, an arboreal wedding is held to celebrate spring renewal. Here human and nature perform an ambiguous dance in order to reach heaven

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An intimate VR experience that explores ’dis-ease’ within the body, through the lived experience of patients with breast cancer.
Meticulously crafted and developed in close collaboration with a team of scientists and researchers, this interactive experience tells the stories of patients’ healthcare struggles, with focus on breast cancer treatment. Audiences are led through a visual and sonic world that interweaves excerpts from survivors’ stories. It aims to invoke a more nuanced and holistic understanding of this sensitive topic.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2024 - Venice Immersive
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - LFF Expanded

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In 1998, two schoolgirls sent a letter to Iran's first-ever women’s newspaper. While they waited to be published, they considered making an impossible film.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection New York Film Festival 2024
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A poor memory leads Gregor Petrikovi to make audio recordings of conversations with loved ones, friends, and acquaintances, and since 2016, he has been building an archive of anecdotes and recollections. With AI-generated visuals, SINCERELY, VICTOR PIKE combines these faceless voices in a patchwork to produce a collective memory around the semi-fictional figure Victor Pike.
Official Selection International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2024