A homage to Lewis Caroll and Alice Liddell, where the words of the final paragraph of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' are re-arranged into a poem, using each word once, unless it appears more than once in the original.
The title simple simple simple is the words left over.
This short film reflects on the swiftly shifting nature of the urban landscape, set in a working class area of South London that is currently being redeveloped and gentrified. This notebook film has no narration and depicts the architecture poetically in flux.
The incredible adventures of a poet Nicolay Oleynikov in the world of imagination.
Clippings and paper cuts, photographs and vintage posters give a life to new images, rhymes and poems in this movie.
This satiric collage of poetry and animation is hiding a sharp parody behind the intentional primitivism.
The title Arrastre denotes a drag in dance terminology, but is also the name for a crude apparatus used for pulverizing ore.
Between choreography and a purely mechanistic series of random actions, Arrastre is populated by unfamiliar objects that are the protagonists in a drama with unknown parameters and driven by obscure forces.
All of us have imagined romantic encounters and possibilities. A young man creates in his mind three outcomes before he tries to make a date with a young woman.
Filmed from a tower block, the film takes in the city of London below. Filmed mostly in time-lapse with the camera tracking across this aerial field of view through the winter months, the intention is to create a cinematic map that exposes the neural networks of the post-modern metropolis.
Set in rural and urban Britain, The Silent Accomplice is a story seen through the perspective of water that flows from a spring to the sea. This ever-present silent protagonist engages with people in often intimate moments in their lives, giving us an unusual and intimate snap shot of contemporary living. Episodic and peripatetic in construction, and poetically blending fiction and documentary, the narrative weaves its way in and out of specific people’s lives to reveal a Britain with hidden and unspoken disparities and aspirations.
Using simple and ritch visual and aural imagery, The Silent Accomplice embraces the notion of silence to drive a narrative that creates an unusual experiential journey. From the sublime to the mundane, the peaceful to the violent, we are presented with a view of contemporary British life not commonly seen.
Two fanatical Eastern European girls come to the fashionable East London to prepare for Jesus' return, by performing a 'homemade' exorcism on a tortoise that listens to death metal.
OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer's alchemical creative processes and renders a film journey through the universe of Kiefer's studio estate, La Ribaute, in the South of France. This strange, sprawling village extending over 35 hectares combines working studios, a network of tunnels, caves, underground pools, a crypt and an amphitheatre.
Shot in cinemascope, the film enters into direct contact with the materials Kiefer employs to build his works – lead, concrete, ash, acid, earth, glass and gold. Here creation and destruction are interdependent.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2010 - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto Film Festival 2010
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.
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.
