Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

Experimental Film, and audio visual interpretation.

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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”.

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

Images created by photographer Roger Ballen plunge the audience deep into his mind: an animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear themselves apart. A nightmarish subconscious world in black and white.

Synopsis

A portrait-of-a-person-style piece exploring themes of the fluidity of identity, gender and beauty. The film follows a night in the life of a drag queen by the name of Silver Studded Blue, who is inspired by butterflies and the metamorphosis they go through.

Synopsis

Over a lilting soundtrack, characters wander through London's concrete jungle as an unknown female voice reflects on the current state of the city and her imagined future.

Synopsis

This video contrasts the moving and the still image. A sequence was taken from the iconic film 'L'Avventura' made in 1960 by Michelangelo Antonioni with Monica Vitti. The soundtrack is a train trundling at night through the Carpathian mountains towards Bucharest.