Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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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.

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In 'Akula Dream' a Russian Akula submarine gets a new captain. However, the new captain is much more into Shamanic drumming, journeying, seances, and mind experiments than he is in nuclear deterrent. Not surprisingly, there is some tension aboard. In form, the film straddles two registers; narrative film making and video art. It uses advanced CGI and has unusual dream sequences as members of the boat travel outside the hull. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A scene from François Truffaut’s film Fahrenheit 451 is reimagined as the autonomous and distracted contemporary commuter experience of ubiquitous mobile device use, visually re-scored in real time with a live performance by a choir. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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"'Black Code/Code Noir' unites temporally and geographically disparate elements into a critical reflection on two recent events: the murders of Michael Brown and Kajieme Powell by police officers in the U.S. in 2014. Archaeologically, the film argues that behind this present situation is a sedimented history of slavery, preserved by the Black Code laws of the colonies in the Americas. These codes have transformed into the algorithms that configure police Big Data and the necropolitical control of African Americans today. Yet how can we read in this present? How can we unwrite the sorcery of this code as a hack? Through a historical détournement the film suggests the Haitian Revolution as the first instance of the Black Code’s hacking and as a past symbol for a future hope." Louis Henderson Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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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