Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Taking as its starting point American modernist William Gaddis’ epic experimental novel, JR, 'Crippled Symmetries' meditates on questions of indeterminate value and what it means to grow up in a society beset by abstraction.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Considering innate human foraging behaviour by comparing a biologist’s field study of goshawks with searching in other contexts.
The project developed from conversations between the artist Duncan Marquiss and his father, biologist Dr. Mick Marquiss.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Narratives mined from online drug user support forums, where codified anonymising practices create an uncanny duality of simultaneous intimacy and disavowal.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev receive endless appreciation for their sublime 1966 Royal Ballet 'Romeo and Juliet' performance.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Turner prize-winning artist Mark Leckey’s autobiographical film started with a piece of found bootleg documentation of a Joy Division gig that he attended in 1979, and the realisation that many of our personal memories and experiences can now be found online. From there, 'Dream English Kid' attempts to create a record of all the significant events in Leckey’s life during the late 20th Century through found traces of film, adverts and popular music- Benjamin Cook, LFF
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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Captain Maurice Seddon, an inventor and eccentric in the great English tradition, made electrically heated clothing for ‘paraplegics, sclerotics, arthritics, rheumatics, the poor and landscape painters’. The details of his extremely modest, uncompromising way of life are here unpicked through a rich weave of incredible archival TV appearances from around the world (he featured on amongst others, the David Letterman show) plus very touching 16mm and mobile phone footage shot by friend and director William English. 'Heated Gloves' evokes Ben Rivers' 'Two Years at Sea' and the Maysles brothers' 'Grey Gardens', whilst highlighting the codes of television reportage and remaining in and of itself very special and unique – just like its subject. (LFF brochure)
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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"'Phi Phenomenon 2' is a 100ft restaging of Morgan Fisher’s 1968 film 'Phi Phenomenon'. Shot on out-of-date stock, and featuring a clock fortuitously found on ebay, the film is the result of multiple experiments with hand processing in a rewind tank. Fisher's film adresses the fact that, as with the phi phenomenon, we see movement in film where no actual movement is presented to the eye... To grapple with movement here is to grapple with both speed and transparency, and in this remake the transparency of the apparatus is foregone so that the slow speed of the minute-hand must compete with the fast and furious activity of the animated artefacts rattling through the projector to film's own beat." Patrick Tarrant
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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A meditation on the nature of moving image making.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Shot over four weeks in November 2014 on the campus of Aichi University of the Arts, Nagoya, Japan, designed by Junzo Yoshimura and opened in 1966. The film explores the remarkable architecture of this 'campus world' through the camera and through a collaborative project with students.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Relationships between energy systems, localised and national, and the weather with its own structures and rhythms are closely observed.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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"An enlivened 16mm mediation on lush green sprouting plants and vegetation, signaling life, change and development within an urban environment otherwise preoccupied by stasis." William Fowler, LFF
"An old ceramic jar from my parent’s house. Images of places its presence brings. A study of object and place." Peter Todd
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP), the filmmaker comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran in the 1930s who was later to embark on a search for the origins of civilisation. 'The Host' sets out on its own exploration, to decipher signs from the fragmented images buried in the BP (British Petroleum) Archive. This journey through the past interweaves a number of stories drawn from both personal memory and the records of an imperial history, which builds a picture of a 20th-century colonial encounter. 'The Host' is a personal essay film about the stories we tell about ourselves and others, the facts and fictions we live by, and their consequences. (LFF brochure)
BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere