Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Two sets of hands attempt to spark a fire through increasingly sophisticated means. A double projection consisting of video and 16mm, artist filmmaker Lucy Parker's FIRE is a response to the performative work of British artist Annabel Nicolson. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Wavelengths

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Night, columns, fish, rocking-horses, celebrities, a hurdy-gurdy, all are collaged together to make up "Reality".

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Jack is on his slow descent into psychosis after being physiologically worn down by the mysterious Entity. The Entity is a culmination of all Jack's dark desires and wants that have built up throughout his life however it is a separate being in itself. Jack has no power in life and eventually gives in to his weaknesses. Depravity, impurity. Jack caves in and enters the dream world offered by The Entity as his personal plane of existence where he is Lord and master. It may have been a beautiful place if it were not twisted by the growing taint within Jack. It is a nightmarish realm of turmoil, suffering and perverted excess. However Jack does not have long to enjoy his new home or explore the powers offered, Jack thinks he has mastered the being known as The Entity but it is all a illusion. While Jack sips on luxurious whiskeys and foods The Entity has breached into the real world and stands over Jack ready to consume his life energies and move on to his next victim.

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A homage to the spontaneous prose of The Beats, from the mythical Cornish west. An audio-visual stream of consciousness. Entirely un-edited, in terms of writing, performance and visuals.

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A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilisation. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands. This film resides in the cross-section between science-fiction, archaeology and Middle Eastern politics. Combining live action, computer generated imagery and historical photographs the film explores the role of myth in history, fact and national identity. Official Selection Berlinale 2016 - Forum Expanded - World premiere

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Artist Jumana Manna sets out in search of the musical diversity of historical Palestine. Drawing on her research into the German-Jewish ethnomusicologist Robert Lachmann (1892-1939) and his work in Palestine, the film follows Manna’s exchanges with musicians as she encounters them in their homes and places of work and worship. Berlinale 2016 - World premiere

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A look into the anxiety of vertigo and a discordance between technology, self and the natural world. Re- appropriated footage is taken from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', accommodating the tone of the volatile character Willy Wonka. As our sensory bodies are plummeted through fictional landscapes with sinister undertones, inducing fear into our fantasy.

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In 1983, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. To help make sense of his loss, he began keeping an audio diary. Encompassing dreams, memory and imaginative life 'Notes on Blindness' creates an impression of his new world, immersing the audience in John’s experience of blindness. A feature-length version of Middleton and Spinney's 2014 Sundance-selected short 'Notes on Blindness'. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2016 - New Frontier - World premiere

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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.