Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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A personal essay film centring on a sci-fi B-movie shot in Hemel Hempstead about the arrival of a non-human entity infiltrating the minds of residents with a toxic black slime. Playing a composite character of herself and the movie’s detective protagonist, filmmaker Danielle Dean brings together real and imagined worlds, past and present. Official Selection New York Film Festival 2024 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - European premiere

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Lawrence Lek directs an animated court drama where the defendant is a driverless car accused of kidnapping its own creator. Setting the premise for the artist to address themes like accountability, agency, the (already happening) use of AI in the justice system, and the future of class struggle. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025

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A woman at the end of her life wanders lost in the woods where her memories find her. Seamlessly blending historical archive footage with dramatizations, the narrative explores how nature connects us to our past.

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Astronauts venture to the moon in search of fresh resources. Illegal miners scavenge depleted gold deposits in Africa. The true cost of progress is complex.

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At home in the north of England, an old woman tunes into the radio. As rain drips into the house, dark manifestations appear in her mind. Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2025 - Nomination - Best UK Short Film

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An unpleasant return to Das Institut für den reinen Tor, Menschheim, Germany, for a forgetful investigation into memory. Restarring: Dr Forschung (incarcerated); Prof Suchen (in pseudonym); Fernando Pessoa (in 5 personas); James Joyce (in multi-Finnegans). "I have more than just one soul. There are more I's than I myself. I exist, nevertheless" Alberto Caeiro "I'm not who I have in memory Nor who is in me now." Fernando Pessoa

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A random drama dreamt by a database. A frolic through the foreafter “in the aye”; A tale told in four ayes; The four-abend of the other ayes; A post-prequel greeting and farewell; An oculists nightmare. Methodology: Algorithgms of varying randomness source clips from a database comprised of all the elements contained in the AYE films to randomly determine; sequence, in-points, duration, tracks, layers and then automatically compile the results into a non-linear editing application, making four different sufi "Greetings" which together make this Overture to the three feature films. i eye aye i 2 aye 3rd aye "I seen the likes in the twinngling of an aye. Som. So oft. Sim. Time after time." James Joyce

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GREEN LUNG responds to the history of Derby Arboretum, Britain’s first public park, commissioned by mill owner Joseph Strutt, opened in 1840. Using screen-printed animation and found materials, the film makes connections between the nature of the park, and the industrial working lives of those it was intended to benefit.

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A journey of a woman overcoming fear of not being accepted: from her desire to correspond to societal standards to finally accepting that she is ‘not normal’ and that the only acceptance she needs is the self-acceptance.

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During the 1950s, Ireland had the highest rate of psychiatric hospital use globally. Using archival documents, filmmakers Cáit McClay and Éiméar McClay look critically at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere

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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.