Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Mary and Shelly used to be neighbours until Shelly and her husband moved away. One day they bump into each other in the street and promise to arrange to catch up over some tea. That day comes sooner than expected as Mary has something she just has to get off her chest. But when it comes down to it, she wonders if she’s doing the right thing. After all, they were never best friends and Mary wouldn’t classify Shelly as being an old-fashioned romantic, like herself. Shelly thinks it’s a great idea that Mary’s coming over. That way she can put aside her own troubles and concentrate on Mary for a little while - but can she?

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Pro Agri is a record of a tobacco processing plant near Città di Castello in Umbria, central italy. The building was filmed in time-lapse, at a rate of one frame every twelve seconds, from one hour before sunset to one hour afterwards.

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A female form's mantra broken, showing itself in missing text and revealing less (or more) than intended. The filmic vocubulary of the 'reveal' is employed by both maker and subject, both an exploiter and protector of themselves.

No words are spoken, but they are stated, through words and body semiotics.

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A dazzling expression of the visual music revealed by 365 setting suns. Over 4500 time-lapse drawings were painted directly onto a continuous strip of 35mm film using a variety of materials such as nail varnish, hair, bleach, net stocking and magnolia petals. Arts Council England and Channel 4 Animate Award.

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The Arbor is the powerful true story of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and her troubled relationship with her daughter Lorraine.

Andrea wrote honestly and unflinchingly about her upbringing on the notorious Buttershaw Estate. When she died, tragically at the age of 29 in 1990, Lorraine was just ten years old.

The Arbor catches up with Lorraine in the present day, also at 29; ostracised from Buttershaw and now in prison, serving a sentence for manslaughter for the death of her son.

Whilst in prison and undergoing rehab, Lorraine is re-introduced to her mother's plays and private letters and as she reflects on the parallels in their lives, she begins to come to terms with her role in the death of her son.

Clio Barnard, began recording audio interviews with Lorraine Dunbar, other members of the Dunbar family and residents from the Buttershaw Estate over a period of two years. The material was edited to form an audio 'screenplay' which forms the basis for the film as actors lip-synch to the voices of the interviewees. This footage is intercut with archive footage and extracts from a re-staging of Andrea's first play.

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Mist parts to reveal two young women surrounded by wild flowers. Detached from the outside world they transform everyday activities into private rituals of mysterious, esoteric, design.

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White Rooms comissioned by the Sonic arts Network as a multi-screen sound visual film project premiered at The ICA, London.

A complex narrative following the daily lives of four main characters who are all unknowingly connected by 6 degress of seperation.

Their unconcsious action affect each other in ways they are not even aware of.

Each character is emotionally triggered in reaction to others' actions and ends up in a noisy and aggresive emotional space called the white room.

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The poetry of Plymouth Sound and city seaside culture captured in glorious Kodachrome Super-8: meet the tombstoners who gather on the cliffs under Plymouth Hoe at high tide to launch themselves into the waves below.

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Our story is set in dusty downtown Cape Town, at a time when poisoned pigeons fall out of the sky and magic is hard to come by. This is the story of an outsider, a loner who doesn't know what she's looking for until she finds it.

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Shut Your Eyes, loosely based on the play of the same name, is about a stormy couple in real life who come back together to make a film where, try as they might, they can't avoid falling into their old traps. A naked couple spinning their ritualized vocal and physical dialogue in a loft reserved for their rituals. A black comedy about the animal poetry of seduction and sexuality. About the fantasies the couple makes real or the reality they make into fantasy. About the jagged borderlines between film - fiction and documentary, theater, dance and poetry. Shut Your Eyes was filmed in twelve long-take scenes with one HD camera in Istanbul during Summer 2008.

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Walt Disney wakes up in the future to discover he's been cryonically frozen for a few hundred years.

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Shot in Iceland from a gyro-stabilised rig on a helicopter, and on the ground using a high speed Phantom camera, this film attracted the interest of David Lynch's producer Joni Sighvatsson and Francis Coppola's producer Fred Fuchs and became the inspiration for Clemo's Breath and First Breath projects, currently in development.