Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Written by Syrian artist Kinana Issa, exploring the themes of liberation and captivity. The film follows a woman whose journey of immigration is over, but whose suffering continues. The story gives voice to the women who have been impacted by immigration.

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Nature and domesticity collide as falling in love forces the hidden animal instincts of humans to rise to the surface. This poetic narrative features fragments of documentary interviews recorded around the UK, woven into an evocative soundtrack.

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Enter The Collider, a machine built to decode the mysteries of human relationships. Its mission: to identify the corrosive, delightful and mysterious material that passes between people – that keeps us together and pulls us apart. Created for two people at time, the experience guides each person along a journey, directing the movements of both into a choreography that investigates their own relationship with power and control.
Each participant enters separately but, soon, their journeys converge. One enters a virtual world revealing the inner vision of the machine, the other can manipulate the visions and actions of that virtual world. The experience culminates in an unmediated encounter where the pair work out, together, what has happened.
The Collider builds the real choreography of going in and out of VR with another person in the room into a theatrical experience which creates its own spectacle – a dance between two limited humans failing and failing again to see the other’s experience and then, finally, the rush of connection when they do.
From #metoo to Kavanaugh, Brexit to Brazil - The Collider moves from the political to the personal to ask: what do you do with power when you've got it?
Official Selection IDFA 2018 - World premiere

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A young woman discovers her future by looking into her family’s past.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand -World premiere

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Where does the character end and the actor begin? This debut feature from UK artist-filmmaker Richard Squires, is a creative documentary that employs 'Clovis', an animated antihero (voiced by 'Kids in the Hall's' Mark McKinney) as a means to explore the particular “voice” casting of cartoon villains in the late 1960s. Through the lens of one of Hollywood’s hidden queer histories, this documentary offers a contemplation on the psycho-social relationship between villainy and hysterical male laughter; the use of voice as a signifier of ‘otherness’ and the frequently uneasy symbiosis of character and actor.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future - International premiere

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A lyrical portrait of indigenous habitats and species, as well as human interactions with the sea, in and around a coastal town in northwest Scotland. Shot on 35mm, capturing the ebb and flow of daily life in a small Scottish coastal town. Opening with a lyrical portrait of human activity, the film then shifts gear, travelling underwater to capture an aquatic world living side-by-side with the town, in a style reminiscent of Jean Painlevé’s nature films.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Created by Scottish artist Rachel Maclean in 2018 to mark 100 years since women were first given the right to vote in the United Kingdom. Part horror movie, part comedy, MAKE ME UP reflects on the shortcomings of our journey towards equality throughout the past century.
The film imagines a dystopian future where a group of women are trapped in a cruel reality TV-style competition in the brutal modernist setting of St Peter’s Seminary. Here, voting is not a liberation – it is a harsh judgement the contestants must face. New arrival Siri learns the rules of a show where compliance and attractiveness are key. Emboldened by her growing friendship with fellow inmate Alexa, Siri finds ways of sabotaging the system and discovers some terrible truths in the process.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Special Presentation - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives

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Three films made from found footage, video diaries, performance and to-camera discourse. Music and narrative voiceover connect the chapters searching for subjectivity through various existential backdrops; from responses to love with addiction, pain and release, to a detective story set in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, and finally a dance across Europe in search of a happy ending.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand -World premiere

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One of a series of videos in which everything happens at the edges of the frame. In this piece waves build up (in stereo) and then unfurl.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives - World premiere

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Interweaving the directors’ lived experiences of present-day Nicosia with their memories as children whose fathers served with the RAF in Cyprus, FATHER-LAND explores notions of home, loss and displacement in the politically charged space of the UN Buffer Zone, the demilitarised strip that has partitioned the island since 1974.

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Between the 1960s and 70s three sisters each ate from her own coloured enamel plate at a specific place at the table.
PLATES juxtaposes audiovisual recording of material objects with narrative interpretations of their past context. Each plate manifests an individual sound, colour, and damage. Evoking interpretations of childhood identity.

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The film gives insight in to Alyssa's anxiety phase of grieving as hallucinations build to a peak, blurring her understanding of time and mortality before reaching an emotional rebirth.