Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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A documentary fiction work. Weaving together the lives of two men, this film draws upon their individual dealings with fire to expand across themes such as pyromania, anarchy, radicalism and enlightenment. A film that gives voice to the anxiety and rage unleashed by Brexit Britain. With fire as the film’s central metaphor, artist Callum Hill welds together stories real and fictional, personal and political, to dwell on the contradictory impulse to destroy in the hope of progress. (Rotterdam brochure) Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future - Tiger Shorts Competition

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Colours blue and orange dominate. Dolphins navigate desert regions through rapid scene alternation

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Based on documents found in Berlin archives, 'Four Parts of a Folding Screen' explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. A voice, enigmatic and sometimes uncertain, foretells of, relates and recalls the routine processes of injustice and their legacy: the creation of a diaspora of household objects, scattered amongst buildings that no longer exist. As the camera probes the secrets of ordinary spaces, streets and buildings around the city of Berlin, semblances of a person and a history begin to emerge and coalesce. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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Set within London's neighbourhoods, Honours In Attendance shines a light on the unconventional lives of two live-at-home students, Sean & Raymond. Whilst Raymond happily shuns campus life, Sean haplessly tries to integrate. Following their first lecture, the two students invoke a friendship that transcends a mutual disdain for their tutors and peers. Their camaraderie offers solace in an environment charged by isolation, apathy, identity crises and looming deadlines.

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As a child, Ivanka was chosen by fairy women for the special task of entering the realm of the dead to discover the future. As an old lady, the spirits have left her, so how does she navigate between the two worlds now?

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Frank, funny and moving drama about four young women's abortion experiences, told verbatim from real interviews, with spoken word and urban-afro music. Adapted from a successful theatre show. Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Persister - International premiere

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A fictionalised documentary essay, tracing the politics of the Thames River, from colonialism to global financialisation, through the prism of Joseph Conrad’s 'Heart of Darkness'. Two unseen people meet in Shoeburyness, where the Thames River meets the North Sea. With a visually distinctive use of tableau shots of locations along the Thames, they narrate their journey to London’s Docklands. The woman quotes from 'Heart of Darkness', but instead of travelling up the Congo River into the heart of Africa, their journey ends in the heart of London’s Docklands, where contemporary darkness reigns. A self-proclaimed ‘accelerationist’, the woman plans to destroy the financial district and accelerate capitalism towards its end, while the man is more concerned for the ecology of the river and our debt to nature.

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When disillusioned Leah is roped into Melody’s raucous midnight adventure, the bond in their cosmic friendship is tested.

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Christina uses the immense noise of her collection of televisions to block out the voices in her head. That is until one day she has a power-cut. This plunges her into the silence she's always feared and where the voices have control.

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ROBOT MEMOIR is the latest film in an ongoing collaborative project between animator Edwin Rostron and musician/writer Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.

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School, gum and teddy bears collide in this disturbing kaleidoscopic tale about a nine-year-old girl trying to fit in.

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The rituals of Persian warrior training are seen in combination with the recitations of a young girl coming to terms with her impending womanhood. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2018 - International premiere