Harmony and chaos meet in a mechanism of rythms and lights. The birth and death of a surreal environment in which familiar game-like rules drive the action's tightly synchronised evolution. A single oscillating dot becomes an abstract musical machine which plays itself using glowing orbs before exploding into particles which collapse together as the cycle completes.
From 12th-century China, to 21st-century London, a parable of life.
In Ten Bulls, Kim Bour has taken the Chinese master Kakuan's illustrated fable of the herdsman in search of the elusive bull, and presented it as modern epic of mankind's struggle for understanding.
Trapped by modern life, we sway aimlessly, seeking purpose and true satisfaction. Ten Bulls tracks one man's search for this truth.
Through rich sound design and flowing imagery, Kim Bour leads us through an almost meditative illustration of this timeless quest. Rich and mystical, yet controlled, Ten Bulls melds the harmony of Zen philosophy and film-making: the simplicity that we see all around us - a petal in a stream, a perfect circle - all blend in a modern meditation.
To find, we must seek. The unexamined life is worthless. 'I find the world in me'.
What really happens at a film premiere? 2EYESopen exposes the harsh reality on both sides of the red carpet; the intense adulation lavished upon the superstar while a person deemed unacceptable is dragged from the crowd.
A Street Named Humber reflects concerns of regeneration and a city's heritage, of the traditions of the past and a changing future. Insights are gleaned from the individual memories of a microcosm of people from this vibrant and historic Yorkshire market street.
The Fuhrer reflects on Jews, Gypsies, Latvians,The Luftwaffe, the SS, the Gestapo, Herman Goering, Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt and Eva Braun as he feels the strains of the last few days of the war.
This film contains excessive amounts of foul language and is wholly unsuitable for human consumption.
After is a documentary animation that traces the emotional journey of three people as they journey from isolation and despair to discover a newfound hope in their lives.
The year is 1943 and Adolph Hitler visits his psychoanalyst to obtain a certificate of sanity. The session is temporarily interupted by Herman Goering who models the Fuhrer's latest military uniform. Hitler's psychoanalyst plays along with his patient as he leads us through his early childhood, his painting and decorating business, his voices and his rationale for wishing to be certified as sane.
Bata-ville is a bittersweet documentary record of a coach trip to the origins of the Bata shoe empire in Zlín in the Czech Republic. Against the backdrop of regeneration in their local communities, former employees of the now-closed UK shoe factories in East Tilbury (Essex) and Maryport (Cumbria) are led on a journey that begins as a free holiday but soon becomes an opportunity for a collective imagining of what entrepreneur Tomas Bata's maxim 'We are not afraid of the future' means for them in 21st- century Britain.
Inspired by the contrast between the idealism of Bata and the more recent industrial decline of East Tilbury and Maryport, host/directors Pope and Guthrie lead this unorthodox coach party on a journey through Bata's legacy.
Inside a traditional London eel and pie house, solitary diners meditate upon their steaming dinners, each glimpsing a personal landscape within the food on the plate.
Black White and Green uses a mixture of 'live' action and computer-generated imagery to transform humble food into the terrain of a world in miniature.
'C' is a twist through a dream world. From the city, through a fairground and a forest, to the sea, 'C' is an exploration of what it is like to look at the world through a viewfinder for the first time, old memories captured through a new way of seeing. The film was shot on colour and B and W Super 8, and has been scored by The Clientele.
