Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm, and super 8 film to create defective and unprojectable celluloid sculptures.
Hi-res scanning and digital stop motion reanimates the material and reveals its potential motion and colour music within, where traces of ambiguous narratives emerge from the complex loops.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand

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A film exploring insecurity and mental health through the character of Steve.

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HAUS ATLANTIS conjures a glittering sci-fi fairy tale from one of the stranger corners of Nazi Germany’s cultural history. Through voice-over, archival images, documentary footage and fictional scenes the film weaves together fragments of history and myth into a seductive fantasy, creating something new out of the old.

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Please wake up Peter. Please wake up. You need to learn your alphabet now Peter.

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Based on Skype conversations with Gaza-based photographers, fixers and drivers who were behind specific images that were transmitted from screen to screen in the summer of 2014. The film probes the face of mourning and grief- its digital embodiment, transmission, and representation. It asks how the gaze gets channeled within the digital realm, and how empathy travels. Equally, how the documentary signifier - and its abstraction - operate when viewing suffering from behind one's LCD screen. What exactly is viewing suffering ‘at a distance’- and how many meters or kilometers is that? What is the behavior and political economy of the image of war? And who is the ‘local’ in the representation of war? (Oraib Toukan)
Official Selection Berlinale 2017 - Forum Expanded

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Originating with research undertaken at the Irish Film Institute Irish Film Archive, artist Duncan Campbell’s piece takes as a starting point a 1960s anthropological film study of rural Kerry to investigate and reframe contemporary Ireland.
In this work Campbell looks at some of the assumptions, ethics and misconceptions that frame the relationship between filmmakers and subjects. The piece is underpinned by extensive research into archival and documentary material, including Paul Hockings and Mark McCarty’s 1968 documentary film, 'The Village', alongside influential anthropological studies. As with much of Campbell’s work, this piece questions the validity of documentary form as historical representation, blurring fact and fiction, recording and interpretation.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand

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“I was hungry for the coast again and took a bus down along the R675, getting off to walk a while between Annestown and Dungarvan. The cliffs are imperious here and look just like home…” A Cornishman’s travels in Ireland, through Wexford, Waterford and Cork in search of the familiar.

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This film seeks to challenge the media construction and distortion of social memory through its representation of the disinvestment and regeneration of the Heygate Estate in London. Heygate became 'sexy' in the symbolic economy as a go-to urban dystopian film and TV location, before its demolition and enclosure as a privatised estate.

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In 1943 a convoy of 120 left Treblinka and moved to the Northeastern part of Italy. They had completed Aktion Reinhardt and were ready to engage in anti-partisan combat in Trieste and Istria. Buried in silence, this is the story of an unknown concentration camp of the Axis.

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The Bastion is a movie about a young journalist that has been kidnapped in a country that is at war when reporting news and is kept in a hostage. There is also special forces group come to rescue her.

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Based on the 1940 South African trial of a traditional herbalist accused of 'untraditional behaviour, the film explores the ideological and commercial confrontation between two different yet intertwining medicinal traditions and their uses of plants, with slippages across gender and race.

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On the 23rd of June 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. This film is a re-working of material from a BBC television debate transmitted a few weeks earlier.