Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Lorraine believes there's a lost portal to another world in Essex. As she explores time and space with her friends and family will she be proven wrong or be vindicated? “This film will be a Cult Classic” Tim Noakes- Edior, Dazed and Confused “The craziest thing I’ve ever worked on.” Ceephax Acid Crew – Dance Music Producer In this brand new subgenre of surreal British comedy filmmaking, Lorraine Willy of Planet Earth believes there's an ancient lost portal built by Amen Rah somewhere in deep Essex that leads to Sirius. As she explores, time, space and greasy chicken wings with her friends and family, will she be proven wrong by those who think they hold the secrets to her madness or will she be vindicated in her unstoppable quest for the truth?

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The story of what happened to an English town during World War One with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its women and children left behind. The North East was in the front line, thanks to its shipyards and munitions factories. Using archive and contemporary footage and audio, this film collages the stories of people from Tyneside and Wearside to uncover just what life was like on the home front, with bombs falling on Britain for the first time, conscientious objectors sentenced to death, and women working as doctors, tram conductors and footballers. The narrative moves from an Edwardian golden era, in which sport grew in popularity and aircraft and cars pointed to a bright new future, to a war that horrifically reversed this progress. In the Battle of the Somme, British, French and German armies fought one of the most traumatic battles in military history. Over the course of just four months, more than one million soldiers were captured, wounded or killed in a confrontation of unimaginable horror.

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Passing time on Brighton Beach, ultimately getting my bum soaked while watching the sea.

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Women in Pictish garb! Tri-partite geometry! Psychedelic sitars! Heavy Magick! The Return from Annwn is a mytho-ecological short film and digital project by Annwn Collective, depicting a trans-dimensional quest to restore cosmic equilibrium through female alignment. Borrowing from Celtic mythology, Pictish symbolism, Japanese butoh dancing and the Western hermetic magic tradition, The Return from Annwn chronicles an atmospheric journey by six summoned spectres through the landscapes of England. Paying equal homage to the filmic rituals of Kenneth Anger and Maya Deren and the aesthetics of 80s fantasy epics, the film performs a form of spiritual archaeology on a world where objects have the power of change and lasers emanate from pineal eyes. The sword must be drawn and the stars realigned! Come forth Guardians of Annwn, come forth!

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Set in a former Cold War era civil defence bunker turned data centre buried 30 metres underground in Stockholm. Part Bond villain lair, part retro-futuristic spaceship, the film explores the temporal nature of data space and geology. Once housing servers for WikiLeaks, issues of privacy, surveillance and digital sovereignty emanate.

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Consumed is a cinematic journey through the landscapes, mines, factories, and shipyards of Chinese production. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, a single worker narrates his story to the rhythm of industrial machinery, re-framing supply chains as a narrative performance at global scale.

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Amy Johnson worked as a typist for a firm of solicitors before her record- breaking solo flight from Croydon to Australia in 1930. This film has been created with an Underwood 315 typewriter as a celebration of her journey.

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Experimental Film, and audio visual interpretation.

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An intimate view of the studio of American composer Laurie Spiegel (born 1945). Known for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software, the film also reveals all manner of music and technology paraphernalia, from music scores to DIY inventions and quirky toy collections. The soundtrack features electronic music composed by Spiegel, with her voiceover musing on electronic music and the compositional process.

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An animated film exploring the fleeting delusional love between Titania and Bottom. There is no story, no time and no roles: only raw emotions and sensations. The film is made with charcoal on paper, with a series of drawings constantly erased and retraced.

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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.