Based on the teenaged journals and drawings of Sylvia Plath, this collaged fantasy describes an evening in the life of a teenage girl in 1949. The music and images are all inspired by the words, images and musical experience of Plath at 17 years old. It was commissioned as an artists' interpretative collaboration for the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium, Oxford University and University of Indiana October 2007.
Experimental documentary looking at the day that Muhammad Ali came to Tyneside in 1977 and the effect that this event had on the young Yemeni-British men who attended the Mosque. This film examines the emerging Arab/British identity and briefly introduced this historic community.
In an age where the viewer can watch public executions online, ordinary slaughter and routine atrocity make us numb to the pain of human beings. The Promise looks at this final moment from the victim's perspective.
Deep in the recesses of an exotic netherworld, mischievous events take place. Submerged into the depths of imagination itself, things slip out of their systems and typologies altogether to co-inhabit a new digestible reality. A succulent and bizarre sci-fi nature documentary of what really might be ‘inside’.
Without You is a visual exploration of London's industrial suburbia. Following colours and surfaces into abstraction, the film reveals the complexity of apparently simple forms.
It's 2002; America and the UK are pushing hard to invade Iraq. Intelligence sources indicate Saddam has stockpiles of biochemical weapons ready for immediate launch; the perfect justification for war.
But when Alex Morgan - an ordinary MI6 desk officer - uncovers deliberate flaws in the evidence being used to support invasion he must decide whether to risk his career and even his own safety to expose the truth.
A fictional account inspired by real events, WMD reveals what intelligence circles really knew in the build up for war. Does Saddam Hussein possess Weapons of Mass destruction? Does it matter?
'In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act' (George Orwell).
'Do you love me?', 'Yes', he said, and then - a colourful musical journey into the narrative of a woman’s tangled past, with magical glimpses of her present world and hopes for a liberated future.
This current work continues to explore the interrelation between body, space and movements. Conceptualized as a split-screen projection. A naked female figure enters into the low-lit studio space and starts a playful improvisation triggered by her magnified reflection projected on the floor. The work explores the complexity of reality and space. The place of the body in a fragmented multi-layered world. The piece has been inspired by Jean Cocteau's 'Orphee' (1950).
Five soldiers prepare and enact a performance that alludes to the aggressively physical games of the British public school. Art Deco locations reference imperialistic ambitions that have determined the role of the ‘soldier’, and that have led to the racism and violence ‘exhibited’ in the Abu Ghraib images.
The film explores themes in Rilke's poem - Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes' . The narrative is concerned with the mental and physical experience of Eurydice while she is in the Underworld waiting to be rescued and is expressed through dance, drama and music.
How To Destroy The World looks at how we humans can do it easier and faster. Join a polygamous Viking, pet eating vegetables, chickenpigs and the Guzzler Family on these four journeys to the end of the world.
