Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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A short animated documentary which investigates the commonly misunderstood mental health behaviour of voice hearing.
Small boxes that contain flip book style animation are presented to show the emotion that people who hear voices feel.
The documentary is experimental and expressive in its approach, where the positives and negatives combine to fully express the subversive nature of a misinterpreted and unacknowledged behaviour.

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Three young women reflect on adolescence as a period marked by loss of ‘voice’ and the struggle between competing desires for autonomy and connection.

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A dreamscape story of a discovering faith, guidance and strength beneath the waters.

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An eating disorder speaks. This digital video made over twenty years ago has been re-framed in a higher resolution format. The unchanged poetry soundtrack is augmented with under titles for clarity. The abstract images shown were made without a camera, using computer software to mirror and repeat them across a now elongated frame.

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Figure is a film about boys growing up without fathers. It explores how early detachment from a father figure affects emotional growth and engagement with the world. Through a fusion of physical theatre and hip-hop dance, it follows two young men as they search for answers outside and inside themselves.

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Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, this film explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Film Competition
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - International Competition
BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British Short Animation

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A poetry film based on 'Leisure' by W H Davies, written in 1911, but as apposite now as it was then.

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Following a dancer who is recently disabled, through accepting her new life, we enter her mind through a beautiful dance sequence which incorporates the art of wheelchair dance, as she recalls the memory of herself dancing which has now been corrupted with the memory of the accident.

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18-year-old Anne explores body image self-perception and her understanding being a woman today in two different worlds: that of her traditionally "feminine" mother, Céline, at home; and the gym where she trains amongst like-minded people.
Official Selection Cannes 2019 - Critics Week
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020

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The music, Blues in B-flat by Volker Heyn, performed by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, provides the framework for 'The Oblique'. The title comes from an instruction in the score: ‘oblique down stroke’. In this film branches of magnolia extend into the empty cavity of the cello, the space where sound resonates.

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On December 1st 1990, watched by the world’s media, construction worker Graham Fagg of Dover climbed through a hole in a chalk wall 40 metres below the seabed of the English Channel, shook the hand of Philippe Cozette of Calais and shouted, “Vive la France!”. On June 23rd 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. Inspired by a message for motorists on Eurotunnel trains, 'Song for Europe' is an underwater celebration of Britain’s connection to mainland Europe. (John Smith)
Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Forum Expanded - World premiere

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A man prays in the Muslim tradition while his children try to distract him by climbing on his back. This is a recurring scenario that many try to film at home and upload to YouTube. The film reenacts this script to show the tender side of a father praying.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum Expanded - Group Exhibition at Betonhalle