Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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A 60 minute 66 second feature film inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex. The film documents a pilgrimage in memory of Edith Swan Neck.
Bits of King Harold's body were brought to Waltham for burial near the High Altar after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and his hand fast wife Edith Swan Neck is seen cradling him in a remarkable sculpture at Grosvenor Gardens on the sea front in St Leonards. The film re-connects the lovers after 950 years of separation.
The 108 mile journey, as the crow flies, allows the audience to reflect upon all things Edith. A conversation in Northampton between Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair and Edith Swan Neck also is a key ingredient to the unfolding ‘story’.
With images shot using digital super 8 iPhone apps and sound recorded using a specially constructed music box with a boom microphone, the film unfolds chronologically but in a completely unpredictable way. The numerous encounters and impromptu performances en route are proof, that the angels of happenstance were to looking down, with EDITH as their hallucination.

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A woman with mild agoraphobia lives her life in a high rise apartment as she experiences various moments of environmental aggression, trauma and psychosis.

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'52 Portraits' is an epic love song written to an art form. Dance.
'52 Portraits' is a series of moving image portraits of dancers accompanied by sung autobiographies. It captures the profound, funny and surprising power of their subjects, revealing the stories, thoughts and struggles of dancers in an unexpected way.
Conceived by choreographer Jonathan Burrows, composer Matteo Fargion and video maker Hugo Glendinning. The idea behind the project was to catch both the individual and unexpected brilliance of individual performers, but also the larger collective concerns of dance artists, which accumulate over the course of the 52 films. Originally conceived as a digital project, it began with ideas of the familiar; the common; the shared technological situation. These short gestural portraits were released online every week over a year. These videos now form the chapters of this film.
What emerges in this film is a political and sociological gesture, interrogating the numerous ways artists are subject to hierarchies, stereotypes and marginalisation of any kind. The result is a hugely varied and personal story of what it means to be a dancer.

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A short instrumental music film, with no lyrics or vocals.
A simple story about a man going for a walk and enjoying the scenery along the way, listening to music.

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Dead. Tissue. Love. is an intimate experimental documentary exploring the character of a female necrophile, as she recounts her life experiences and sexual awakening.

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Guy's Girl highlights how female DJ’s are represented in London’s predominantly male music scene. The title Guy's Girl is ironic and with the documentary we aim to reinforce the fact that female DJs are just DJs and, despite popular belief, "don't mix with their vaginas."

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A 360 experience (for 2 people) which explores the power of human connection.
Put aside your inhibitions and let strangers guide you through their impromptu, unconventional and intense moments of intimacy.

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‘Moulding Exclusivities’ anatomises a series of sculptures utilising the remnants of prosthetic manufacture. The camera renders plastic leftovers from the fabrication of wearable braces for spinal adjustment. Arens surveys with part-organic part-animated movement the disservice of standardised office and living environments for the human body.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - International premiere

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People from all over the world search the banks of the Thames at low tide. Why do they search and what do they find? From the priceless to the macabre the Thames Foreshore washes up every kind of lost item and strange story to be told.

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Shot in a creaky, wooden floored Parisian recording studio at an inaugural three-day “forum of ideas” focusing on the manifold possibilities of Resistance (the title of Jean-François Lyotard’s unrealized follow-up exhibition to his 1983 Les Immateriaux), occasional collaborators Ben Rivers and Ben Russell have produced what initially appears to be a structuralist document of a philosophical discussion in-the-round. This “appearance dimension” is deceptive, of course, and with the aid of an immersive 5.1 sound-mix, a Green Man, a Green-Man-shaped-Infinite-Void, a dose of kinetic digital magic (courtesy of US-based artist Peter Burr) and an impressive cast of thinkers, critics, curators and artists, a document of Resistance slowly transforms into 'The Rare Event' – a portal that joins all dimensions into one.
Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Forum Expanded - World premiere

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Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
What happens to the ones we love after their death? Can we keep them alive through our memories or perhaps by placing them in an imaginary afterlife? This film explores the parallel life that we can dream of but cannot touch.
Seven people wander through memory and dream looking for the ones they loved and lost. Between the dreamscape and landscape, the dead and alive are finally allowed to communicate, because they can feel and hear each other.

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A psycho-geographic film essay, documenting the ethnographic tendencies of the industrial landscape and its malevolent stature over the individual. The shipping industry’s ever-shifting landscape, affecting even this interaction you are having with this text, crafts its own mythology.