Projects in genres: Experimental

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Mental Block depicts the journey of a young freerunner (Ali) striving to find his own personal route through life using the discipline of parkour, but all motion stops when he reaches the inevitable mental block. Set within inner-city estates Ali discovers the hardest obstacles to overcome are in the mind.

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Having never left the ship when Nora, a service android, is given the oppertunity to leave her life of menial labour and take part in an mission to save the human species, she believes her dream of freedom will be fullfilled. Narrowly avoiding destruction she crash lands on a desolate planet finding herself stranded and without means of communication. Her journey quickly turns to one of survival both for herself and her fellow androids.

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North Circular - An experimental abstract animation by Michael Salkeld. Utilising video 2d and 3d animation, as an experimental visual poem, interacting with an ambient improvised musical soundtrack. Animation and music by Michael Salkeld

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Based on the writings of Bruce Lee, Nunchaku explores the journey of a young urban warrior forced to face his demons.

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Made up entirely of stills, Paintbrush presents portraits of ten users of a fictitious online social networking website. By detailing the information given by each user on their profile, the film explores themes surrounding identity, while also serving as a satire of online social networking.

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Sourced from content from the Great North Run film archive, concentrating on the audience rather than the runner. Frame layers are arranged across the screen in the direction of the natural panning of the original shots, revealing a unique panoramic view of the content.

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This film centres around the theme of its title, peace portraits. It is a film which has many entries, muscians who talk about their art and some who just play play, this feature film also has appearances by other artists from the professional fields and are well known in the film industry.

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The Darkness is lifted. Project Dark is explained.

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Psycho Ranger is based on actual events. Our story is set in the Derbyshire Peak District and is about a High Peak Ranger (Samuel Waring) who loses his mother to cancer. The Ranger slips into psychotic episodes, due to isolation, depression, a persistent poacher and 2 hikers who ridicule him. He kidnaps the poacher and hikers and psychologically tortures them before killing them.

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Rage is a tragicomedy seen through the eyes of a boy who becomes a player in a high fashion murder investigation when interviews for his website start to spiral into catastrophe.

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A long weekend on the South Coast of England. Reservations follows five hotel guests with one thing in common, they are all alone. The film explores the relationships that develop as these people's lives become inextricably intertwined. This sometimes dark but heartfelt drama set within the sumptuous backdrop of past grandeur really treats the viewer with an insight into the lives, hearts and minds of these seemingly pedestrian characters; as their lives shift in surprising ways. Reservations is devised using a process of improvisation with a cast of first time actors.

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A story of the life, struggle and survival of London's East End landlady, Sandra Esqulant, who's been running the Golden Heart pub in Spitalfields for nearly 30 years. Adored by everyone around her, the film captures a slice of her life in one of the most fascinating areas in London.