Projects in genres: Experimental

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A thief breaks into a house and finds himself trapped in the dark with a somnambulist, a drunk and an insomniac houseguest. Told almost entirely with stereo sound, this simple comedy seeks delight in showing us what is going on only when it matters.

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Blue Gene Baby portrays visions of Genetic Identity and the scanning of the individual. The complexities of the individual can be reduced to numbers, codes and patterns through science. Genetic profiling and engineering hold a potential for human transformation both good and bad. But who will be checking the morality of these scientific advances?

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Using a mixture of animation and live action Canning Town Fox tells the true story of a hapless shoe salesman named Barney Banard who borrowed £30,000 from a one-legged loan shark named Beryl in order to buy up the world supply of Speed Brogues, (a new type of motorised shoe).
 
Unfortunately, it transpired that the company manufacturing the Speed Brogues were also illegally importing Nigerian Fighting Kittens, (hidden in crates of shoe leather) into this country. When the news broke Barney found himself unable to sell his Speed Brogues and as such had to find another way to repay the money that he had borrowed fom Beryl. After sometime he encountered an African national named Godfrey Breslaw who offered to share a fortune in gold doubloons with him, (which unbeknownst to Barney had been stolen from his girlfriend Athena's father several years earlier) if he helped to reclaim them. Unfortunately, when Barney went to pay off his debts Beryl smelt a rat and decided to tie Athena to a train track until Barney told her how he got the money and if there was anymore where it came from - And then things really started to get complicated.

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A boy, a girl, a love story of sorts. In a high-rise, two flatmates endure a restless night.

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A very short film about love iin the rural metropolis. Boy. Girl. Car. Bus.

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Through a series of ghostly reminiscences a young man tries to piece together fragmented moments from the past, memories being triggered by admiration for his best friend Johnno. As the story unfolds, hero worship turns to revulsion, as the web of deception and violence that Johnno creates is revealed, pulling narrator and audience into its destructive wake. Manipulated live-action mutates and combines with ghostly digital animation.
 

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A poetic and compelling 16mm film shot in London, Karachi and Lahore which encompasses five stories relating to the times of day for Muslim prayer. The work explores overlaps between time, memory and location. Connecting different places and people through images and sounds, Eating Grass contains documentary footage accompanied by a voiceover in both Urdu and English. The textures of individual voices continually slip from one language to another, creating and repeating rhythms. Meaning is not only conveyed by what is said but also by building tonal rhythmical cadences, similar musical structures to those found in jazz or Indian classical music.

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Emotions is a short experimental film , filmed with different coloured lenses, to portray how a person experiencing various emotions sees his surroundings.

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A curious and remote coastal research site becomes a vibrant and graphic testament to impermanence. Using a range of experimental animation techniques the film studies both physical exposure to time and weathering, and photographic exposure to light, processing chemicals and mark-making directly on to celluloid.

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Filler brings together children's fairy tales, TV, soap dramas and news reports to tell the story of a missing child. The video explores the cultural shifts that occur from the way these stories are reported - how notions of celebrity, voyeurism and reality are blurring private emotion with public spectacle.

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Flight is an experimental digital video work which explores, celebrates and questions our relationship with flying through a series of oneiric images, sounds and text. Structured around an  imaginary plane journey Flight highlights the processes of realisation, observation and memory: a cinema of gestures, suspension and transience. In Flight, the collision of speed and stillness, comfort and danger, beauty and potential horror provide a unique passage into the unchartered territories of our mind.

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A woman is travelling on a tram when she sees an electronic sign which gets her thinking.

'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names', the sign reads.
 
Has she got any enemies? And if she has, are they really her enemies? And if they are, would she forgive them?
 
Forgive is a reflective tale about a woman who realises that sometimes what might at first seem negative, in reality, might not be.