Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Everyone in the world has the same identity. Over a period of time, one person starts to discover he's different and can move on his own accord. He realises he has his own identity and decides to separate from everyone else.

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Weaving around a theory of immortality based on the premise that our lives are a summation of all the information we consume and process, the film draws on my personal history's brush with a global nuclear disaster, to precipitate a meditation on the potential role of an individual in the imaginary film/event of our individual or collective death: as a protagonist or an extra appearing in a handful of frames at the very moment of their death.

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Inspired by the words of Nelson Mandela, OF THE UNKNOWN explores the living conditions of Hong Kong’s so-called ‘cage dogs’.

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The time has finally arrived. Sen has prepared an amazing dinner for his date, Esther. She is the perfect date. They are perfect humans, as has been written in all the main books. But like all good plans, things don't turn out quite like our hero expected.

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‘Breake off this last lamenting kisse, which sucks two soules and vapors both away.’ Inspired by John Donne’s poem, The Expiration reveals the bittersweet moments of a love’s last breath. An evocative, inner journey of two lovers as they accept they must reluctantly part forever.

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“'O, Persecuted' turns the act of restoring Kassem Hawal’s 1974 Palestinian Militant film, 'Our Small Houses', into a performance possible only through film. One that involves speed, bodies, and the movement of the past into a future that collides ideology with escapism.” —Basma Alsharif Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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Made in Full 2.39:1 Cinemascope with full surround sound to place the audiences at the centre of the orchestration composed by the director, the experimental abstract visuals interpret the complexity of the score.

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'Chromatic Aberration' explores the early technologies of colour filmmaking drawn from the archives of George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Featuring vibrant close-ups of eyes from fledgling archival experiments in colour film, 'Chromatic Aberration' turns the cinematic lens in on itself: from the prosthetic recording eye of the camera, to an evocation of the abstract inner screen of one's eyelids. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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Looking back at his visits to Poland and East Germany many years later, the filmmaker questions idealised imaginings of life in other places, times and political systems.

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It was only in the 20th century that we needed identity papers to cross national borders. In a century when we invented aviation, when we invented cinema, when we could move more and see more than at any other point in history why did we become so watchful and performative?

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Undead Sun looks back at the seismic impact of the First World War and considers how so many of the products of that conflict continue to shape our contemporary experience.

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Shot in London, Shadow Gene explores characteristics in the human race which contradict its own survival: violence and greed. A beautiful female assassin on a mission to destroy a defective gene in the male species uncovers a corrupt and murky world of corporate power. Raised by a mysterious woman and nurtured into becoming a ruthless hit woman, she targets 'corporate' types who unknowingly carry the notorious 'shadow gene', a parasite gene that compels its hosts to become as violent and greedy as the stock markets demand... without remorse. One day although seemingly accomplishing her mission an encounter with a smug corporate executive sets of a chain of events that shifts the power between victim and perpetrator. Shot largely in London with a minimalist cast and crew on a tiny budget using aging out-of-date 16mm and Super 8 film stocks (some up to 40 years old), Shadow Gene utilises 2D animation, live action, graphic and photographic imagery along with a haunting piano score to tell its story, along the way creating a kaleidoscopic narrative that reveals aspects of corporate greed from the time of the nineteenth century Luddite to the present day 'Occupy London' Movement.