Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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‘It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances’ wrote Oscar Wilde. LAY BARE is a composite portrait of the body, revealing it as it is only rarely seen in the most intimate relationships we have with our family or lovers - erotic and comic, beautiful and vulnerable.

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Water, sunlight, breathing and skin – this is a submersion into the joy of sea swimming by night and by day.
A series of moving portraits and interviews held exclusively in the sea off the coast of Hastings in the South East.

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Gonda starts with the play Ideal by Ayn Rand. As a critical counter, Gonda addresses cinematic and linguistic space by creating settings in which image, text and sound shift roles to affect presupposed ideals of identity and existence. Main actor is Dutch transgender model Valentijn de Hingh.

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'Londoners' is a vintage film about modern day London.

Shot entirely on a 100 year old wooden hand-cranked 35mm camera, 'Londoners' documents modern day London as never seen before: a snapshot of contemporary history about urban life in the UK today.

A Channel 4 co-production, completed in March 2012.

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Filmed at the Sighthill Stone Circle, built in 1979, Glasgow
"Like slow breathing, it seemed to emanate from inside the walls" LUX Salon, Erik Martinson (2016)
"An Endless Theatre: the convergence of contemporary art and anthropology in observational cinema" University of Edinburgh (2013)

Tramway, Glasgow (2012).

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A poet awakens within a strange garden in need of his notebook, pencil & inspiration. A divine couple, breakfasting, observe. A debate unfolds; would inspiration arise from help or hinder? Will the poet find his inspiration?

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A night ‘walk’ tracing the path of the lost Fleet River, through the night time streets of London's Saffron Hill – once the site of a notorious rookery – and the place where Dickens located Fagin’s den in Oliver Twist.

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In Dreams is a profound and experimental documentary focusing on the weirdest and most vivid dreams of normal individuals. After numerous interviews, five of the most imaginative and outstanding interviews were selected for the documentary.

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Everyone knows sin is bad. We try our uttermost best to fight it yet we succumb to our cravings because of its seductive allure...

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Following several tragic events, Jo and Amy attempt to come to terms with their new life as another Christmas in the care system approaches. Using audio interviews with brother and sister, Jo and Amy we listen to their memories as they deal with loss, separation and acceptance.

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A psychosexual sci-fi about a planet without speech. The film's narrator, ambiguous in gender and function, weaves us slowly through a mental and physical landscape, observing and chronicling a space beyond words. Based on a dream had by the radical British composer Cornelius Cardew.

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Babeldom is a city so massive, and growing at such a speed that soon, it is said, light itself will not escape its gravitational pull. How can two lovers communicate, one from inside the city and one outside? This is an elegy to urban life against the backdrop of a city of the future, a portrait assembled from film shot in modern cities all around the world and collected from the most recent research in science, technology and architecture.