The banana is the world's most eaten fruit but it is at risk of extinction. Composer and sound-artist-turned-director Matthew Herbert attaches a microphone to a banana in the Dominican Republic and records what it hears on the way to the UK.
A high concept music video exploring time, reality and memory through the mind of a Victorian author stranded between two periods and two realities in the heart of London.
'The Panharmonion Chronicles' is also a graphic novel written by the director Henry Chebaane.
This film explores what happened in the 1940s London when two women of different generations, but both fighting anti-colonialism, came together to put their fervour and imagination into writing a revolutionary play.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024 - International premiere
Inside the Oval Office the President has a moment of lucidity.
Part of THE MUTE Series, a collection of deadpan micro-films made with adherence to three rules: RULE 1 no dialogue; RULE 2 no camera moves; RULE 3 only one shot
Comfort posits frustrated workers in an anxious landscape, partnering conventions of period dramas with the voice of a shifting protagonist: a cleaner.
Conversations, experiences and freedom dreams of a group of women affected by the carceral state, as encountered through the UK government’s hostile environment policy and prison system. This work is drawn from an extensive five-year collaboration between director Rehana Zaman with a group of Black and Global Majority women.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023
Why is English such a difficult language to learn? Why do the words have so many different meanings? Is there a way to find the humour in all of this? And should you answer a question with a question?
The story explores self-discovery and healing, using containers as a metaphor for safe spaces. Through 2D animation and stop motion, it constructs a poetic narrative, reflecting sensibility and identity fragmentation with pottery and clay.
Official Selection Animafest Zagreb 2024
Woodshed, a term used by Jazz musicians, refers to private practice in a location where they cannot be heard by anyone else.
Official Selection IndieLisboa 2023
Official Selection Vienna Shorts 2023
Created in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit, Nothing Can Ever Be The Same is a 168-hour-long real-time generative work, re-imagining the visual archive and music of Brian Eno. Uses a bespoke generative system developed by Dawes and Hustwit to create an ever-changing visual artwork that is unpredictable and defies categorisation.
A prisoner, stuck in his cell, dreams of all the things he could do if only he was free.
Part of THE MUTE Series, a collection of deadpan micro-films made with adherence to three rules: RULE 1 no dialogue; RULE 2 no camera moves; RULE 3 only one shot
