Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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From the earliest days of movie-making to the present day, through rare and unseen footage, we see the changing relationship the British have with their land. From images of local celebrations and festivals to agricultural practices through the seasons, village life and lost crafts. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - World premiere

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Ancient footage of an old tale hauntingly re-emerges. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A poetic study of the life and work of artist Margaret Benyon, pioneer in the artistic use of holography. Giving voice to the unsung legacy of a pioneering woman artist, 'A Blemished Code' is an impassioned meditation on the representation of female artists, the balancing of creative and domestic life, and the inherent tensions of being a woman working with new technology. The inner life of the subject is represented throughout by a brilliant musical score featuring sung script and compositions by Stevie Jones, Mai Mai, and Leigh Ferguson. (LFF brochure) Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A haunting metaphorical take on the physical and mental isolation of the migrant experience. Inspired by the director’s father’s experience of being trapped in Greece’s Ellinikon Airport without a passport in 1977, the film follows a week in the life of a man who has been living in limbo at an airport for a decade. All promises of movement are ultimately met with stasis in this profound evocation of our epoch of desperate migration. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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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.