Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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"Walk With Me?" is a Guerrilla feature film shot according to 'the Guerrilla Filmmaker's Handbook' by Chris Jones. This film takes a surreal look into the life and mind of a writer who is healing after a car accident and suffering with Insomnia in London. She finds inspiration from the characters she meets in her dreams. Dreams and reality become blurred as her insomnia and sleeplessness fuel her writing.

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A lilting paean to the manifold strains of native grass that cultivate upon Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. Frenetic movement and textures dominate the frame, and the synergy between sound, locomotion, and image creates a hypnotic sensory panorama.

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Exploring ideas of landscape and dislocation, ‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes architect Lionel Brett's 1965 book ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its sole raw material, isolating and reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design as pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.

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A pool and a reflection
Held down below the gentle, rippling surface
Hidden between the stabbing and persistent pulse of falling rain
Waiting to resurface

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From 2010-2013 I recorded every departure from my parents home on an iPhone. form relationships with cameras and these in turn expose the relationships I have with my family. The routine that I followed reveals the dissolution of a family home.

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Telling the story of a girl, through the eyes of her older, wiser self. Shown in a daze of colour, she falls into a nightmarish state of mind. And through an audio-visual platform the narrative blurs and distorts into a new reality - revealing a burning new picture of truth.

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#1 and #2 are searching for their magnum opus, the one story that will bring them clarity, purpose. When they struggle to find inspiration in our world, they are ripped from it...but what happens when you lose control of the world you create? Forget the story. Meet the tellers.

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An experimental short exploring the poetics of camouflage in everyday landscape, showing the subtle shift between place and character. Told in the style of moving tableaux.

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This piece, using a methodology diametrically opposed to Warhol's own, revisits stray elements that pass incidentally through that moment of monumental presence we experience in 'Empire'.
Screenings include:
53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA
Experimenta 58th BFI London Film Festival, UK

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Rainbow’s Gravity is a cinematic study on the Agfa-Color-Neu colour film stock made in Nazi Germany. Along its three layers of emulsion, the film digs deep into the escapist colourised landscape of this time and asks for the material requirements, retentions and ideological continuities of the Agfacolor palette.

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Scenes appropriated from Murnau's Nosferatu with the utterly iconic Max Schreck. Music by Evangelista.

Selected to be screened in the Experimenta section of the BFI London Film Festival this October

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Consumed by an insatiable hunger from outer space, a high-flying nobleman unleashes a painful renaissance beyond the wildest dreams of Florence. But can he escape the consequences of the ultimate rebirth?
Peoples of the Earth, beware of Duke Cosmico: you are what he eats.