Robinson in Ruins is an account of a journey by a wandering, erratic scholar, through landscapes in the south of England. Its fictional narration begins: 'When a man called Robinson was released from Edgcott open prison, he made his way to the nearest city, and looked for somewhere to haunt'.
Robinson ‘believed he could communicate with a network of non-human intelligences determined to preserve the possibility of life’s survival on the planet’ and ‘was equipped with an ancient ciné camera, with which he made images of his everyday surroundings’. He surveyed the centre of the island on which he was shipwrecked: 'The location,' he wrote, 'of a Great Malady, that I shall dispel, in the manner of Turner, by making picturesque views, on journeys to sites of scientific and historic interest.'
The film consists of these views. The cinematography began in January 2008 and continued until November, just after the peak of that year’s global banking crisis. The film’s unplanned journey ‘rediscovers’ several locations associated with capitalism’s development since the 16th century and resistance to it. Vanessa Redgrave’s narration includes references to the deepening economic crisis, climate change and mass-extinction, but manages to reach an optimistic conclusion.
The 'Shooter' (Paul Hunter) is on a mission in the mountains, lochs and forests of Scotland. A veteran of battles in foreign lands, is still haunted by visions of man's terrible inhumanity to man, but when he encounters the beauty of nature, he makes his choice of weapon.
Slow Action is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film which exists somewhere between documentary, ethnographic study and fiction.
Slow Action applies the idea of island biogeography - the study of how species and eco-systems evolve differently when isolated and surrounded by unsuitable habitat - to a conception of the Earth in the distant future, when the sea level has risen to absurd heights, forming new isolated archipelagos. Accounts from a great library of Utopias are read by two voices.
Jason, a young man looking after his mentally ill brother and alcoholic father, comes to realise it's time to move on with his own life with the help of some graffiti and a bizarre night on a council estate.
A man alone, awakes to noises. It is the day he has been informed that he is to die. Nervous and shaken by proceedings he decides to film his last day, but what wants him dead, and is it something he can defeat?
The Ferryman is a dreamlike portrayal of a ferry crossing on a river in Devon. Drifting slowly through chance encounters along the river and its shores, the film reveals the unexpected history of the ferryman, evoking a distinct feeling of character and place. (Official Selection Sheffield DocFest 2009).
The Unnameable is an 11 minute artists’ film trading in popular culture, sci-fi, cinema and horror. The title is a reference to both HP Lovecraft and Samuel Beckett's "Unnameables"; stories that melt in and out of reality and psychosis. Their characters fear what they know and also what eludes them. The Unnameable was filmed in an abandoned nursery for disabled children in west London.
The film captures a short moment in the life of Morris, a confused and depressed man in his late twenties, as he prowls around his bedroom writing yet another to do list while downstairs his mother worries about him and remembers what a nice boy he used to be.
A cake boutique employee gives a series of job interviews to people with imaginary, magical disabilities. As the situations become increasingly bizarre, he starts to lose his patience.
Mike finishes a letter to his family and seals it in a waterproof bag, he tapes it to his midriff and leaves the house. Mike’s next act will change the Rivers family forever. This three-screen drama captures an irretrievable moment in the life of a middle–class family, revealing a story of infidelity, jealousy and extortion.