Projects in genres: Experimental

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Landscape painter Angus Stewart's first film is a playful portrait of his home town, Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. The structure of the film is a year made into one day, showing times of year and events in a small highland community. A quirky rework of the traditional tourist film form.

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Existing within the possibilities of the theatrical and cinematic frame, a figure enters the spotlight feet first - a 'starlet' born by breech. She moves as a figure in flux of femme fatale and demoiselle, meshing the physical architecture of cinematic suggestions of these two archetypes.

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Gerald Wells stole his first radio, a Belmont, in 1943 at the age of thirteen. He was immediately sent to an approved school, whose psychiatrist diagnosed an obsession with wireless and electricity, an obsession that continues today. The house Wells was born in and still inhabits is now home to over 1,500 wireless objects and 45,000 valves. Analogue Kingdom is a poetic portrait of Wells, founder and curator of the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum. It reveals the charm of Wells' world, where radio relics and their attendant stories fill every nook and cranny.

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The mysterious love poem by Wilhelm Müller from Schubert's 'Winterreise' provides the audio amplitude samples used to draw the waveform. Awarded Best Experimental Film Prize at 2010 Ismailia International Documentary & Short Film Festival in Egypt.

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The simple movements of everyday reality on the New York subway are transformed into a choreography of fractured and fleeting impressions.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.