Projects in genres: Experimental

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While cerebral palsy confines Alan Martin to a wheelchair and inhibits his speech, he refuses to limit himself. When he gains access to technology that enables him to find a voice, his life is transformed.

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Emptiness is wistfully transformed in 99 Clerkenwekll road as the remnants of an empty shop provide the makings of an abstract light-film cum toy-solar-system.

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Newly homeless, Gracie is about to commit suicide. But at the last moment, as she hovers over the railings of Waterloo Bridge, a young woman, Ellie, runs onto the bridge. She begs Gracie to help her escape from a pursuer who’s just yards behind. Shocked out of her dark purpose, Gracie helps Ellie, and they escape. Walking the empty streets, Gracie thinks the threat is past and a tentative relationship begins between the girls. But as she finds out more about Ellie, Gracie realises just how vulnerable they still are.

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Real Insects, Real Drama, No CGI. Witness first hand the fight for survival and the unlikely co-operation these beautiful beasts display. Shot in a scale model of a human city, the man-size creatures display incredible humanity in their dramatic stories within their alien caste system.

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3 minute experimental video. Subliminal rhythms and total abstraction edited to an emotive sound track.

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A poetic study in movement and sound, this film takes you on a journey to the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness to experience the ancient practice of reindeer herding or ‘husbandry’.

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Rick Regan is a man out of his mind navigating a career as a Global Intelligence Commando in the year 2095. For his fix he kidnaps Maria Capek from the Bezel Corporation in return for time in the TV loop and Q-enabled beverages but nothing can prepare him for the truth yet to be revealed.

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A trailer for a short experimental film by James Batley using animal totems and occult magick to exhibit and effect transformation 'as above, so below' augmented by an arresting ritualistic soundtrack.

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The story of Bradley Manning, not as a Wikileaks ‘hacktivist’, but as a young American soldier simultaneously going through a crisis-of-conscious and a crisis-of-identity. Animated in a rotoscoped pixel-art style and using dialogue from Bradley’s online conversations, the film explores issues of personal and political secrets, digital identity and alienation.

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Madhabilata is a personal film, a journey to touch the wave of silence between me and my biological mother. An intricate embroidery of desire, suffering, denial and ‘looking back’. A painful hide 'n' seek game between me and my mother, between 'real' and 'unreal','self' and 'other' .

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A short film that follows the journey of two girls in a canoe on the River Shannon and how they stumble across one of nature’s greatest phenomenons; a murmuration of starlings.

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Three narratives unfold together. Inside a vast nature reserve sits a solitary building, a café, where an important meeting is being held by executives. Outside in the park, the collective singular lounge about wearing fancy garments. Images are exchanged, participation simulated: the interminable present. Meanwhile, the dormant wildlife fades away.