Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Hundreds of motorbikes are animated frame by frame in this homage to the iconic motorcycle design and culture of the 1950s and 60s. A rider prepares his bike and departs on an idealised journey into the countryside and into the future.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Film Competition - World premiere

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Stratum is a film that navigates through post-industrial landscapes on the European Route of Industrial Heritage, from Britain’s abandoned South Yorkshire coal seams to the culturally re-purposed collieries of the Ruhr Valley, Germany, via the former coal-mining region of Wallonia, Belgium. Contrasting the past and present, contemporary scenes are combined with archival film material, alongside audio narration from Miserie au Borinage (directed by Henri Storck and Joris Ivens, 1934), made in the depths of the Great Depression.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - Lab Competition

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A forest hermit tries to prepare for a flood, but he becomes distracted by his noisy neighbour - who happens to be the hermit's left eye.
A film exploring the growing anxiety about the state of nature, and our place in it.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - Lab Competition
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Short Film Competition

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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