Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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Façade re-transmits the flawed utopias and polarised theories suggested by Sergei Eisenstein’s unmade film 'The Glass House' into a fantastical vision of contemporary glass architecture far removed from its egalitarian origins. Narrated by Julia Somerville Façade casts 'glass' as a transparent subject rendered slowly opaque by the language it engenders.

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A Time And A Time is a film constructed entirely from archive footage shot in Bristol over the last century. Three specific locations are chosen and filmed images from these geographical points are cut up and reassembled so that we recreate the place with people and buildings and vehicles that span time. A 21st century office worker crosses a road that has just been blitzed, a woman from 1910 watches a man on a mobile phone kick a football. The distance that time creates is removed and these people are reunited in location.

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The ever-shifting shape of Analogue Futurism.  

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Moving out of our family house I had to dispose of some of my possessions. A time of reflection. The film is a small memorial to all those who perished in the concentration camps.

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By the Grace of God depicts the world of Jürgen, a tormented provocateur without a past or background, whose delusions of grandeur lead him to England in search of his place in history and his sovereign right to the throne. A tapestry of feelings and ideas reveals a man who is simultaneously illuminated and tragic, who lives in the cracks of reality.

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Caught on camera is a web 2.0 experiment. Mobile phone footage of a carjacking in london is posted on video blogging website seesmic.com. From this moment the director gives up control. The explosive footage sparks comments from over 50 people from around the world. The evolution of the resulting conversation is captured in this short experimental film.

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Menace and melancholia as layered textures explore complex histories. Space, sound, colour, stone and paper mutate.   Differing intimacies to a cinema which has sat as a ruin for over twenty years, is due for demolition and was once a thriving cinema scene are evoked by the voices of three characters.

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Can one man with a dream win the heart of the world's most powerful woman? This is a documentary like none you have seen before - the first musical docu-tragi-comedy in the history of cinema. Part Borat, part Fahrenheit 9/11, part Mamma Mia!, it follows a love-struck soul's hilarious, emotionally engaging, and ultimately shocking quest to woo former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.   A spin on the Rapunzel fairy-tale, this unique romantic/political/biographic feature follows Devin Ratray, a portly website designer, musician, former child actor (famed as Buzz in Home Alone), and besotted admirer of Condi, as he prepares to meet her.   As Devin travels the country, learning more about the great lady from those who know her, Courting Condi tells the life story of one of our era's most inspiring, enigmatic, and controversial figures. This film is both timely and a classic love story, punctuated by timeless songs.   It's the first retrospective of the Bush Adminstration and will inspire audiences to laugh, sing and protest about the past eight years.

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Ex Stasis is a short film based on the recount from an unknown source of a traumatic memory told through fragmented image and text. The film is framed within the confines of a domestic interior, revealed through motion, progressive frames and broken text to tell this dark narrative of an external threat that invades the home of a couple and their cats. The story is constructed in monochromatic and colour images, producing a foreboding domestic interior of disaccord, frightened cats and human panic.

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A man finds himself trapped in a labyrinth of alleyways and must navigate his way to freedom. He is accosted by strange and terrifying figures. A young heroine steps in and saves him from a Cyclops, and a large ball like object chases them along a post apocalyptic tale of being lost in time and space.  

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An experimental short that follows the narrator's reflections on modern-day parallels with history.

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In Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, a display of nationalism is taken to its logical conclusion. Moving between macro and micro perspectives, Flag Mountain sets dramatic spectacle against everyday life as the inhabitants of both sides of the city go about their daily business.