Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Towards a Militant Conceptualism is a short hybrid film dealing with the political capacity of art in the contemporary world. The film explores artist’s experiences of protest, confronting agents of the State and questioning the origins of law. This is an open argument on political activism and its effectiveness with the proposition of art as a form of protest.

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As a child in the 1950s, Ron Cockroft drew a chalk line from his school in Oldham to his home in Chadderton. Chalk Trace commemorates and reanimates his graffiti journey through a now much-changed network of streets. The film was photographed in the original streets of Oldham as they stand today – over 60 years after Ron’s original graffiti.

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Cremer occupies the spaces between a photograph, a document and a film. It's a collaborative record and examination of the fire and resulting smoke damage that took place in the studio in 2006. As film is exposed to light, the studio was exposed to smoke, leaving shadows on all surfaces.

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The film explores the disorienting prismatic effects of the lamphouse of a 35mm colour film printer. Through minute shifts across an abstract colour spectrum, punctuated by a mechanical soundtrack, the film evokes perceptual after-images, bringing to mind Technicolour classic films, Paul Sharits, and Dario Argento.

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To escape from the realities of bereavement, two friends travel across Yorkshire to look for David Hockney. Grief toys with their senses and heightens their need for adventure. The style references the work of Hockney.

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Entering the unfamiliar space of a stereoscopic digital animation, viewers find themselves behind the eyes of an unseen and distinctly unreliable protagonist. Arriving where he had once lived, he moves through the old haunts seemingly attempting to re-engage with two abandoned relationships; one with a man, one with a woman.

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A journey in the forest, a vision of trees, nature speaks. A walk, a circle that completes its path. A woodland story. One of.......

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A monstrous garden, where stone dinosaurs are enlivened by rampant foliage and gargantuan flowers.

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A small scale Stop-motion western set in the great indoors.

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Recorded every day for a year at exactly the same time, in the same place Stay the Same is an experimental documentary about our relationship with time and the desire to capture experience.

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A unique take on the world's most performed play The Cherry Orchard. The film explores Chekhov's play and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author creating a new space between narrative and documentary.

Six actors are brought together in a country house over one weekend to put on an improvised version of The Cherry Orchard. They are pleased to see each other again and begin to explore the house and talk about old times. They chat about the play and what they feel needs to be done during this weekend but as they cast themselves as suitable characters cracks begin to appear. They discuss the dramatic themes - longing for things past, decay, regret, loss, spite and jealousy which slowly and imperceptibly begin to take over the actors and their characters. Little do the actors realise they will be consumed by the play both as the characters, over which they argue, bitch, make alliances and betrayals, and as themselves, loving, jealous, spiteful, bullying human beings. What begins as a light-hearted weekend of theatrical fun gradually turns into a self-doubting and destructive scenario.
As they gather in the garden to make their theatrical entrance will they ever be able to be friends again?

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The experimental student film ’The Befuddled Box of Betty Buttifint’ examines the fractured memory of Betty, an elderly woman whose confused mind provides the framework for a journey through the vivid landscape of her past as she struggles to make sense of the symbolic stages of her life.
Blurring the line between reality and memory, featuring ensemble performance, dance and song, the film seeks to explore the emotional fabric of which we are made. 'Befuddled' is ultimately a poetic reflection of the life, loves and losses in one woman’s fading world.