Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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A recreation and contemplation inspired by the 31-mile walk of refugee Abdul Rahman Haroun through the Channel Tunnel. On arrival to the UK Haroun was arrested under an arcane Victorian railway law.
The language in this bylaw, when juxtaposed against the physical and emotional feat of traversing 30 miles of the Channel Tunnel supplies the terrain for this film.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

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By shooting through the take-up reel of a 16mm film projector, this experimental nature documentary remediates the iconic landscape of the American south-west to unnerving effect.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Short Film Competition - Experimenta Strand

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A mysterious woman travels through the threatening territory of film noir and the enigmas of philosophy.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

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A well known gothic horror film is re-appropriated, re-animated and given another life via the filmmaker's 16mm laboratory. Visually hovering between the conscious and unconscious, the film’s frame lines shift between lucid imagery and unfocused narrative.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A classic interview with Helen Mirren from 1975 is performed as a song by Kathryn Elkin, backed by a choir of associates and friends whom she corrals into chanting in loose harmony.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - World premiere

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A work about seeing in the dark, but not being able to see the thing in front of you. The piece describes the experience of imaginary colours as events which exceed the rules of language, colour as a space, distinct from tone and light, setting the stage for a psychedelic melodrama played out by two characters.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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The absurdity of war told through the irony of a failed Improvised Explosive Device explaining its travails to its maker.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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In an unnamed city above the Arctic Circle, in the far north of Russia a narrator, ostensibly the filmmaker, retraces her journey to the city, talking to the images. She tells of her encounters and her recollections of what happened after her visit, between the time of filming and the time of her telling. However, she is aware that the images like her own memories of moving through the city cannot be trusted to provide any certainty about what was happening, what she saw, what she felt and what it meant. Like memories, they shuffle around in one’s mind, play tricks, taking on a life of their own.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A feature length film exploring themes of identity, culture and the construction of history. Shot on 35mm film in various Californian deserts that provide a stage in which to re-enact the negotiations of an archaeologist from Cairo with a members of tribe who guard ancient culture hidden in tombs lost in the desert.
The scenario for the film was adapted from the 1969 Egyptian film 'A Night of Counting the Years' directed by Shadi Abdel Salam, creating a layered story that echoes from ancient Egypt to the diversity of desert ecology and recent archaeological digs for lost Hollywood film sets. Working in collaboration with the musician and composer Tom Challenger a new choral composition was created and recorded for the film, drawing on traditional and modern acoustic techniques to reflect the shifting sands of the desert landscapes.

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Stuck in a bubble, a girl dreams of a sunset.

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The journey of an applicant through the immigration system of an unspecified country.

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Santa Monica, California - a beach boy/man dances alone. Against this familiar scene of west coast 'cool' narcissism Monica's every 'other' day story of being subjected to racist violence is retold and discussed by a white couple as they stroll on the beach.