Projects in genres: Experimental

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In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, alternative music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist. This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats and over the history of ATP, to capture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe. 

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Inspired by the unlikely plots of afternoon TV and Hitchcocks 'Rebecca', Amnesia opens with our heroine discovering that her husband is Pierce Brosnan who gives her a mobile phone so that she will remember her past.

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Taking the form of an experimental portrait, 'Celestial' explores the poetry of the sky, a space of fascination and contemplation.

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Charon, the demon sailor over the river Styx, sets off on a journey to recover his mortality. He renounces his role as ferryman for the dead and sails away in search for the archetypical home, the mythical place of his childhood where he can finally abandon his boat and die.

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Crack Willow is an affectionate portrait of one man's struggle with death and loneliness. Mark Walker's journey is an exploration of emotions captured through the use of vivid, powerful and imaginative imagery. A compelling and evocative film that treads new ground.

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A gang of noir villains enacts a brutal and stylised final scene - staging a formalised ritual of death and betrayal on a blank set drained of colour and emotion.

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The body as landscape. 'A blue planet and some air'.

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A group of people kill their time playing ping-pong. On one evening, Eddie Proctor steps out of the game.

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A young woman, Alice, discovers an archive whose contents tell the story of her mother's apparent suicide when she was just a child. Piecing together the story from her father's work, an academic psychological experiment involving the reconstruction of dreams through video, Alice is led to shocking truths buried in her family's past.

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Exile is an intimate look at identity through the eyes of a young British Nigerian woman. It interweaves contemporary dance inspired by African masquerade, and documentary footage from Senegal, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria to give a distinct and personal narrative.

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A young man walks the streets and stations of a busy city armed with his camera; recording and observing from the safety zone behind his lens. On a train a young woman brings him face to face with two kinds of beauty and perhaps one missed opportunity.

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An experimental film essay investigating the cultural importance of cinema. In an age dominated by the moving image what would it feel like to never see an image of the place that you came from? The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here interviewees describe from memory key moments from the history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and animated. Where film survives, the artist's impressions are corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity - that cinema fuels memory.