Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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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.

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Global in scope but intimate in spirit, a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and buzzing metropoles New York and Hong Kong. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - World premiere

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By turns raucous and reserved, 'I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead' ponders the future of a world in flux as seen through the eyes of motherhood accented by poets CAConrad and Eileen Myles. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future

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A beautiful and enigmatic collection: wedding architecture; animals; John Cage; and John Ashbery Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere

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An odyssey across a common land in the south of England told through the hands of the members of the Natural History Society who currently occupy it.

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I AM ECHOBORG is a participatory dramatic experience created afresh each time by the audience having a conversation with an artificial intelligence. The production team built a real AI and the content and the outcome of the show depend on the words spoken by the audience and the AI.

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Awake or asleep? Alive or dead? What lies between? And who, or what, is that voice blurring lines between reality and fantastical nightmare?