Projects in genres: Experimental

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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.

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Short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets because of impairment. The film draws on Kahlo's own words and bold painting style. It refutes the picture of Kahlo's life as one of tragedy and suffering.

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A doc-drama following a day in the life of two homeless girls. The film looks at how we view that which we see everyday, those dispossessed of a home, yet questions how we use that information.

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A young girl walks to the sea's edge, railing and crying against the elements, throwing herself into the sea only to be expelled onto the cold harsh shore.   Invisible looks at living with anexoria from a personal point of view.

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Another day in the office. Encounters with an angel. A film of hidden hopes and dreams.

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In 1904 the Elan Valley, in Wales, was flooded to create reservoirs for Birminghams's water supply. Many buildings were destroyed and over a hundred people were displaced. Keepsake uses original footage, archive maps, stills and domestic objects; the waters of the reservoir are 'drained' to reveal what was lost.