Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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The heir of Kings must search for a mysterious creature to help prevent war.
An unofficial Tolkien film adaptation, produced as a non-profit crowd sourced fan film.

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Inspired by the unlikely plots of afternoon TV and Hitchcocks 'Rebecca', Amnesia opens with our heroine discovering that her husband is Pierce Brosnan who gives her a mobile phone so that she will remember her past.

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Taking the form of an experimental portrait, 'Celestial' explores the poetry of the sky, a space of fascination and contemplation.

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A visual and poetic insight into crane drivers' lives, the film is a must-see for anybody who has ever wondered what it is like to work hundreds of feet above the ground, only surrounded by a small metal cage.

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Crack Willow is an affectionate portrait of one man's struggle with death and loneliness. Mark Walker's journey is an exploration of emotions captured through the use of vivid, powerful and imaginative imagery. A compelling and evocative film that treads new ground.

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A gang of noir villains enacts a brutal and stylised final scene - staging a formalised ritual of death and betrayal on a blank set drained of colour and emotion.

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Told in flashback, Crimson is a ‘road movie’ without a car, it follows the darkly comic odyssey of Jake, a dislocated youth, as he journeys by foot across Leicester over a few hours. The film is a meditation on alienation, English culture, Americanisation, and spiritual decay.

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The body as landscape. 'A blue planet and some air'.

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Exile is an intimate look at identity through the eyes of a young British Nigerian woman. It interweaves contemporary dance inspired by African masquerade, and documentary footage from Senegal, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria to give a distinct and personal narrative.

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An experimental film essay investigating the cultural importance of cinema. In an age dominated by the moving image what would it feel like to never see an image of the place that you came from?

The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here interviewees describe from memory key moments from the history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and animated. Where film survives, the artist's impressions are corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity - that cinema fuels memory.

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Smoke is used as a device to exploit extreme contrasts of light and dark. This theme of contrast echoes throughout the work as notions of presence and absence oscillate, and redundant, toxic waste is briefly transformed into a magnificent celebration of 'being' before gently dissipating into infinite time and space.

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Francis is an account of the creation of a 9-year-old 'defective' animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, his behaviour is observed and assessed by a child psychologist. The boy’s responses – initially slow and apparently flawed – develop in unusual comic directions as the examination progresses.
As his vocalisations begin to address the nature of his animated world and the psychologist continues to try and interpret his actions, it appears that Francis may ‘break out’ once and for all and become a ‘real’ animated character. Francis playfully addresses notions of construction and the role that language plays in interpreting, classifying and creating certain types. In an animated world populated by impressionable idiot figures, mischief-makers and oddballs with strange vocal mannerisms, Francis puts the cute but simple cartoon character into therapy for a case study of 'animated behaviour'.