Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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This film presents one art form through another; architecture through film. If architecture is the interplay of built form in light and film is the viewing of images through light, can an architectural film present images of wood, light and stone that might shape our religious and spiritual life?

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“for the time being” is a collage of moving images made thirty years apart and re-worked into seventeen sections of tentative autobiography. The soundtrack mixes music and environmental sound with conversation, not all of it intelligible. In the scraps that are, the film-maker and his partner talk together about how we document and re-interpret our lives.

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Short experimental film in black & white. A young girl learns to appreciate her beauty through the help of a mysterious stranger... Will this be the key to her happiness?

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This piece exposes the parallels of computer coding and genetic coding in humans and animals. Voiced by an anonymous group of ‘hybrid’ machines, from some point in the near future, these ‘narrators’ look at these creatures as inefficient machines and consider ways of editing and improving their code. The film draws upon the research and tools used by Dr Darren Logan in his investigation of genetically influenced behaviour.

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This video by MATLAKAS is a journey through the cycle of life and death in relation to objects and daily routine. The second life of objects, and the memory they witness and carry with them. Highlighting our transient existence. An inner monologue leads us through a journey of life, death, and resurrection, in a day in the second-hand market...

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Exploring the elusive and complex effects of war on women’s role in ballistic research and early computing, the film features new and archival high speed bullet photography, schlieren and electric spark imagery, bullet sound wave imagery, forensic ballistic photography, slide rulers, punch cards, computer diagrams, and a soundtrack by Scanner. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

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Jennifer left Gibraltar and entered an enclosed community of Discalced Carmelites nearly 30 years ago. The cloistered community live out an ideal of work and prayer as a creative life. The quotes are from Teresa of Avila’s “Way of Perfection” the spiritual guide she wrote for her Carmelite nuns. Seven years in the making, the project was realised through the collaboration between inside and outside the convent walls. Filmed inside the convent by Jennifer and Alejandro Roman a volunteer who for some years helps out the community and is the only person allowed inside. The film gives us rare access to the monastery and her enclosed life within it.

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An installation piece which is a return to, and a modern elaboration upon, Vincent Van Gogh’s Provence landscapes. A series of digital paintings interrogate and reframe concepts of representation and perception through image manipulation and augmented reality. Using bucolic and contemplative images, juxtaposed with raw data visualization, the project suggests alternate modes of visual synthesis. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - New Frontier

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D.^^.$.®. (Dance.Music.Sex.Romance.mk1) explores how the digital environment, in the form of reconstructing and publicising our intimate experiences, directly influences our image of self and the implications this ego-theism has on romantic and erotic relationships.

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Made by deliberately misusing a language translator app on a smartphone, Steve Hates Fish interprets the signage and architecture in a busy London shopping street. In an environment overloaded with information the signs run riot, as the confused and restless software does its best to fulfil its task.

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A vague narrative is created to follow the structure of original Tarot card, Major Arcana, such as The Fool’s Journey, throughout the following 21 scenes. This piece was made after the creation of a series of tactile 22 collage works that were heavily inspired by Derbyshire’s history, myths and legend. This collage itself also forms a new Tarot, loaded with symbolism, intrigue and mystical imagery.

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Tosse Not My Soule counterpoints the polyphonic radiance of English Renaissance madrigal composition with contemporary urban realities. Three songs from the 16th century by John Dowland are performed by sounds and shapes from modern city life and paint a portrait of its inhabitants emotive states of longing and promise.