Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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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.

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In the very waters where Melville's Pequod gave chase to Moby Dick, Leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. Shot on a dozen cameras — tossed and tethered, passed from fisherman to filmmaker — this is a cosmic portrait of commercial fishing as it's never been seen (TIFF 2012).

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Evoking the still photographs that mysteriously punctuate his feature Two Years at Sea, Ben Rivers' Phantoms of a Libertine is an enigmatic portrait (channeling Marcel Broodthaers as much as Raymond Depardon) of a lost friend told through two sets of photographs-professional and private - and the objects that remain (TIFF 2012).

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Bodily interventions on the surface of the filmstrip combine with intricate scratched animations to form a direct record of emotion.

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A poem about software and other neologisms. The letters of each word appear in a randomised sequence on screen.

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Nicky Hamlyn's celestial overtures The Transit of Venus I & II form a diptych document of this astronomical phenomenon, one shot in black in white in the United Kingdom, the other capturing a stunning Italian blush sunset (TIFF 2012).