Projects in genres: Experimental

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Laitue is a hand drawn film, tracing a brief journey from loss to a reunion of an unexpected kind. Two people are separated by time and space but nevertheless coincide in a series of movements which form a choreography of anticipation and unrest.

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Two men strike a deal that reveals to be something altogether more sinister. Man Made is a dark and ominous short that addresses the issue of gender and power.

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An inner journey of a young girl catching reindeer in the twilight expanses of the Far North.

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Mickey B is a world first, a feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, made with serving prisoners as cast, in Northern Ireland's notorious maximum security prison, HMP Maghaberry.

Set in the fictional private prison of Burnam, where gangs run the wings, violence and drugs are the common currency.

Duncan, the number one drug dealer, is about to be released. Mickey B is the muscle collecting on his behalf.

The three witches take on the guise of three bookies, fixing the odds for their own ends. Ladyboy, Mickey B's bitch embodies the corrupting role of the queen of hate, scheming to reach the number one slot.

Shot in hand held close up with cold, razor-blue filters, an unrelenting claustrophobic intimacy draws us into this dark world of ashen, scarred faces and tattooed flesh. Casual everyday violence, bourn out of the prisoners’ first hand experiences, ensures gritty, authentic and visceral performances. The laconic, drawling voices snake the story through each unexpected shocking attack. The brutality of clipped street slang delivered at staccato pace punctuates the monotony of endless prison time. This is a Macbeth like no other.

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Set among the beehives and high heels, fur stoles and Ford Zephyrs of 60's and 70's London suburbia, My Amulet offers a personal take on Anglo-Jewish identity. Combining handheld Super 8 with current digital video footage, the film delivers poet Leah Thorn's spin on assimilation, acculturation and ‘other such aggravation’.

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Nora is based on true stories of the dancer Nora Chipaumire, who was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. In the film, Nora returns to the landscape of her childhood and takes a journey through some vivid memories of her youth. Using performance and dance, she brings her history to life in a swiftly-moving poem of sound and image. The result is a film about family dramas, difficult love affairs and militant politics, which moves back and forth between the comic and the tragic, the joyful and the mournful. It is a film about a girl who is constantly embattled - struggling against all kinds of intimidation and violence - but who slowly gathers strength, pride and independence.

Shot entirely on location in Southern Africa, Nora includes a multitude of local performers and dancers of all ages, from young schoolchildren to ancient grandmothers, and much of the music is specially composed by a legend of Zimbabwean music - Thomas Mapfumo.

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A photomotion, alternarrative re-telling of fragments of a story.

A female figure leads each frame through a dialogue of re-telling, by way of telling a story which is punctuated by falling down a hole, becoming smaller, larger and encountering a cat. This is Not Alice.

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Three lives are connected in a world where physical communication has all but ceased.

The setting is an unknown city whose human inhabitants predominantly prefer the secure realities of an implicit inside world to that of the physical world.

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An autobiographical documentary, a fiction that's also an essay and an extended poetic meditation on the ability of the image to represent experience.

Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, shot first in 1988 and then again in 2008, and culminating at the haunting expanse of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world.
 

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In a Perfect World what would you wish for?

A 12 minute film poem using the visual theme of a wishing tree, created from the surreal and lyrical answers given by the students of Centre Academy Special School, London.

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Commissioned as part of the 'Bridging the Gap' production scheme, short documentary Pollphail is a startling portrait of imagined futures and a village in limbo.

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Post is written, directed and produced by London based filmmaker Giada Dobrzenska.

Post delves into a writer and artists complex and fractured spirit and mind, when a young woman starts receiving anonymous fanmail.

Written and made in response to Nick Bantock's visual novel 'Griffin and Sabine' Post is a psychological response to Bantock's work- reading into what his stories suggest but dont spell out.
 
Post is a short experimental film which screened at the raindance film festival in 1999 and the portobello film festival in 2000.

Post is an experimental sound/visual narrative short.