Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Referring to the printing-press and Derrida’s concept of erasure from his book 'Of Grammatology' the monologue was written, and voiced, by Gayatri Spivak, translator of 'Of Grammatology'.
The film features a petroglyph of a car at ‘Writing-on Stone’ or Áísínai'pi in the language of the Blackfoot nation means “it is pictured”.

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In the marital bed the surreal sensuality enveloping Othello and Desdemona is disturbed by a dangling telephone. As the phone pours poison into Othello’s mind he transforms into a different entity with detrimental consequences for Desdemona. Digitally drawn animation with juxtaposed shots of live action.

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Images created by photographer Roger Ballen plunge the audience deep into his mind: an animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart. A nightmarish subconscious world in black and white.

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A portrait-of-a-person-style piece exploring themes of the fluidity of identity, gender and beauty. The film follows a night in the life of a drag queen by the name of Silver Studded Blue, who is inspired by butterflies and the metamorphosis they go through.

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Over a lilting soundtrack, characters wander through London's concrete jungle as an unknown female voice reflects on the current state of the city and her imagined future.

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This video contrasts the moving and the still image. A sequence was taken from the iconic film 'L'Avventura' made in 1960 by Michelangelo Antonioni with Monica Vitti. The soundtrack is a train trundling at night through the Carpathian mountains towards Bucharest.

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A single, steady shot records the rising tide in the evening. Using sound and text, the film invites you to think and experience beyond the boundaries of the frame.

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This piece records a water-music-light attraction which has been in operation at Watermouth Castle theme park in North Devon since the early 1980s. Installed in a child-sized theatre, the performance synchronises a 1920s Mighty Mortier organ with a water tray exhibited at the Festival of Britain in 1951.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2016 - Wavelengths

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A grim display of misguided patriotism and tribal thuggery during the England-Germany 2010 World Cup football match.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Debate Strand

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In 2012, the Ivy House pub in Peckham was sold to property developers as part of the ongoing gentrification of south London. The locals opposed it. Unfolding from this scenario, the film weaves verbatim testament into folk operatic form with the Ivy House itself, embodied and imagined as a central character and inhabited by the memories of the generations who have passed through its doors. Sarah Turner films the community’s creative reanimation of the mourned pub through dance, poetry and song... which both records and creates a vision of social possibility... The activism that saved the pub is a metaphor for social and creative agency. This is not just a film about resistance; it is a film that itself refuses categorisation... a triumphant genre-blending documentary which turns community action into an exhilarating participatory opera. (London Film Festival)
Public House premiered in the documentary competition at the 2015 BFI London Film Festival and was nominated for the Grierson Award. The film has since been re-edited and remastered in a new version for wider audiences.

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A short film of the poem 'Lights Out' written by Edward Thomas (1878-1917). The poem was a meditation on the possibility that the writer would not survive the First World War... he didn't.

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Inspired by the text The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, the films centres on a personal diary from a narrator, a European subject, who is describing how his human identity is gradually eroded, being transformed into something else, as a response to the suffering he is viewing.