Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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1968 Film Group produce Featurette on the 'Battle of the Somme' filmed on location in Picardie, Northern France, across 2010/11. Using image and sound the film captures the landscape today where thousands perished and are still missing.

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A Posthumous document. The silent personal archive of deceased filmmaker Terra Miller is laid out against all that remains of one of Miller’s final pieces, an acerbic audio recording of Isabella Berretta, founder of organisation The Fire Brigade. The youngest member of this organisation, Terra’s brother Jaric, whose movements appear to cross time and space in the archive, becomes the physical narrator to Berretta’s vocal presence, at times in synergy, at others in conflict with each other.

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A pastoral dream-zone of autumnal forests and dark abiding groves conjured with the hallucinatory intensity of a death-bed reverie.

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Adam has it all - a beautiful wife and daughter and home, but one day he wakes up in a hostel for the homeless - how did he there and how can he get his life back?

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A woman recalls her sexual experiences that have brought her to this point in being, from disappointing sexual encounters in later life to her early childhood and the neglect she suspected her mother of. We are brought into her world of reminiscence and realisation.

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On Landguard Point is a film about home created by Suffolk raised Robert Pacitti - founder of the award winning SPILL Festival of Performance and maker and curator of performance art for over 20 years - with original music by Michael Nyman. Set entirely in the East of England and built through poetry, performance and slips of story. Woven together these forms accumulate ideas around what home means. The film is about trade: what it means to produce and export, or import from elsewhere. It is also then a film about migration, identity and defence. These themes underpin every element of the film and offer up multiple layers of resonance and meaning. The film is carried by two other voices. The first, our narrator, initially sets the scene before falling into his own poetic visions and daydream. The second is a family of scrolling red LED text boxes, stood in the sea and beginning: HERE IS A MAP… On Landguard Point features work by internationally acclaimed artists such as Julia Bardsley, Rajni Shah, Kira O’Reilly, Harminder Judge and Mark Peter Wright.

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Three mythical stories from the island nation of Vanuatu, South Pacific, concerning the origin of humans, why pigs walk on all fours, and why a volcano sits where it does.

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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).