Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Agile cross-cutting between images shows animals hunting in the snow. The soundtrack is a Roma song celebrating the coming of spring. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Victoria Sin unapologetically takes up space when they are in drag, giving spotlight and agency to the daily labours of femininity that are invisible and policed. Commissioned by NOWNESS, this film demonstrates the transformative power of Victoria's drag, positioning Victoria where they belong - in cinematic grandeur, with a gaze that they own. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand - Short Film Competition - World premiere

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Tracing the movements of the New Silk Road, this essay-documentary follows distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe. Mapped through footage, interviews, field recordings and found WeChat videos; government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods. 'Paralogisticians' hack infrastructural space through transnational guanxi and long distance friendships. Desert sands made restless by Westerly winds disrupt roads, railways and sometimes engulf whole cities. Through a disorientation of the senses – bodies and landscapes become mobile. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere

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An experimental abstract film. Created to a sound track composed by the director, Michael Salkeld. Half the sound track is acoustic violin half electronic keyboard.

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A story of a young man who has lost his words, his thoughts, and his gender identity. Those eyes are always sharp as knives, yet the secret inside him is no longer hidden, waiting to be free by himself.

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Mediation through image and sound exploring the means and the end. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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What begins as an enquiry on things that mean other things itself becomes a thing that means other things, too. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Short Cuts - World premiere

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An elegy for the NASA/ESA spacecraft Cassini. Using light and dark, movement and stillness, the film combines digital video with manipulated archival images and 3D models to explore the relationship between man, machine and the natural environment.

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A video collage comprising multiple threads loosely anchored around male maritime coming-of-age rites. Hardeep Pandhal raps to a score composed with Joe Howe as we are dragged through a cartoon world marked by male fears of floods, bordering between the homely and the gratuitous.

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'Relic 1' forms part of Larry Achiampong's Relic Traveller: Phase 1, a multi-disciplinary project manifesting in performance, audio, moving image and prose. Taking place across various landscapes and locations, the project builds upon a postcolonial perspective informed by technology, agency and the body, and narratives of migration.

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An emotionally responsive, live action film, (with 3D immersive sound), which uses the player’s facial expressions to progress through a branching narrative and get through a riot alive. Inspired by real events, 'Riot' represents the global sense of unrest.

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A young woman wanders through the building of an afterparty, meditating on her life. She searches for a way out of her ruined and solitary world but cannot escape confronting her destiny.