Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Taking its name from an alternative reading of the name for the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Kannon, KanZeOn, which can be translated as "she who hears the cries of the world", is an unorthodox but utterly magical meditation on sound and the ritual and philosophical role it plays in Japanese Buddhism. Filmed in Kyushu, the film looks at, and more importantly listens to, three very special Japanese musicans: Akinobu Tatsumi, the young Buddhist priest and custodian of a temple outside of Kumamoto City who moonlights as a hip-hop DJ while indulges his love of beat boxing in the remote forests; Eri Fujii, who has devoted her life to the mastery of the sho, a rare and ancient Chinese bamboo wind instrument evoking the cry of the phoenix, and Akihiro Iitomi, a master of Noh theatre and a kotsuzumi drum player whose love of jazz almost matches that of his passion for Japan’s traditional performing arts. As a documentary, KanZeOn does not seek to explain as much as to enlighten, taking the viewer on a hypnotic sensual journey from the timeless to the modern by way of a mystical parade of images that resonate seamlessly with the sounds.

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A Cleaner works for clients she never sees in houses that don't need to be cleaned. A dark poetic film which deals with the isolation and monotony of domestic work. Hearing and feeling things that may not exist, her thoughts are concealed from her employers and the world.

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About monuments in Kumanovo, Macedonia.

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A short experimental film where the surroundings of a woman are slowly revealed.

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Claude Cahun’s iconic photograph ‘Don’t Kiss Me/In Training’ was inspiration for a two line poem, a fractured couplet revealed and hidden throughout this piece about intimacy, tactility and the projected theatre of how it feels to be together. A game involving dressing up, repeated, with love. Training for feeling.

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In an insular all-boys private school a student is in search for a connection to the 'real' world and has developed a particular interest in Internet sites with user-generated videos.

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"What do we believe in today? And tomorrow? And for the rest of our lifes? In a world where Faith in God is literal, the planet is collapsing..."

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"If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise. If you go down to the woods today, you'd better go in disguise..." An experimental reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood, this visual collage combines elements of fairytales and horror to reveal something unexpected lurking in the forest.

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After the disaster of Le Fear, director Carlos Revalos decides to make a sequel with a bigger budget. What could go wrong... Simply everything!

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An abstract film about how loss can transform the way someone views everyday life.

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"A polyphonic meditation on time and urban space" (Sukhdev Sandhu, BFI 2012). "If you let it, a street will grow" says a voice in this film-poem which offers a lyrical, painterly defence of the everyday and a celebration of multiculturalism, even as it poses questions about the process of regeneration. Shot on location in the London Borough of Hackney, the film interweaves rarely seen archive, super 16mm and super 8mm photography. Slow, still shots of streets, parks, cemeteries and markets are juxtaposed with the East London paintings of Leon Kossoff, Jock McFadyen and James MacKinnon. With a script based on poet, Michael Rosen's play for voices, a heightened soundscape mixes documentary with poetry, music, song and location recordings. As we slip between past and present, real and imagined, famous and unknown "the world comes to Hackney": From Shakespeare in Shoreditch, to a Jamaican builder, from an 18th Century feminist abolitionist to a Turkish barber, from Anna Sewell's "Black Beauty" to the Jewish 43 Group taking on Oswald Mosley in Dalston, the audience is invited to apprehend the city as fragmentary and multi-layered, "past in the present, present in the past."

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did I? explores amnesia and the devastation of severe memory loss through a series of abstract visual sequences. The work combines live action footage with hand drawn and 3D animation to evoke a sense of the fragmentary and disordered recollections of an amnesiac.