Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Her body flickers in an attic. A triangle, align; she is flung in a poltergeist semaphore. At once woman, creature and form, she dances anticipation. A whisper, ‘he’s coming home.’

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A film of stone and light – just stone and light.
"Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes of the elegy. Elegy presents everything as lost and gone or absent and future." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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Revisiting the audition process for the character of Kanchi in Powell and Pressburger’s 1947 'Black Narcissus'. The coveted role went to actor Jean Simmons.
By auditioning only Indian ex-pat or first-generation British Asian women and non-binary individuals, filmmaker Michelle Williams Gamaker re-casts a Kanchi for the 21st Century, who crucially speaks.

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A book and audio experience that uses a mixture of evocative music, narration and field recording to bring stories of changing environments, from the swamplands of Louisiana, to empty Latvian villages and the edge of the Tunisian Sahara.

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Uncanny residues of adolescence form a dank landscape where memories of suburban Scotland mix with half-forgotten virtual worlds.

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Glimpse phantasmagoric gardens: warped, improbable and fantastic. An abandoned Eden has grown strange. LOST GARDENS is a portal to another world, one where a forgotten magic still holds sway.

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Snaps of everyday human interactions are assembled in a rhythmic montage that explores the relationship between men, architecture and nature in the context of Bulgarian post-socialist residential neighbourhoods.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation Films Competition

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Combining cutting edge virtual reality filmmaking and multisensory storytelling, immerse yourself in the lives and struggle of the Munduruku Indigenous People deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

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Resist attack. Resist temptation. Resist everything.

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An unseen location scout explores an opal mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semi-deserted region both the traces of indigenous culture and remnants of cinema history.

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Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean’s dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty and riches where the prospect of easy wealth tempts even good boys like Pic into bad ways. But if everyone believes the lie, what’s the problem?
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand

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'Tears' is a part of a series that takes a line from a Hip-Hop song and transform it into a video. Using the lyrics "I wonder if I died would tears come to her eyes?" by Biggie, to highlight the vulnerability that Hip-Hop can sometimes embody.