Projects in genres: Experimental

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Apart From Many explores the sense of madness arising from deciding one's fate whereas Coathanging follows a girl's journey through London which becomes a metaphorical search for peace of mind. The narrative, music and visual experience evoke a realm of sensual possibility and suggestion.

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Take one glamorous and ageing dancer. Trap her in the real world then smash into her private reality. Control her movement, contain her emotion. Well you can try but she has already beaten you to it. With hypersound and supersmart awareness submit to this bizarre journey of entrapment.

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In a train station, three characters cross paths in an increasingly menacing series of encounters involving, time slips, pickpockets and the speaking clock.

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Made up of electronically generated images from a modified television, captured on super 8 film and then treated by hand with coloured inks and bleach. Each of the 5 sections is closely matched by electronic music from Helliwell's customised circuits.

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It's nine o'clock on Monday morning when one bored commuter's distracted by the beautiful blonde sitting next to him. But she's less than impressed by his leching. And she knows how to make her point.

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The rhythms and patterns of military drill create a dance for the camera. Set against the horizon of Salisbury Plain, a regiment of soldiers repeat their curious ritual in a bleak and timeless natural world. They are met by a military band who emerge from the landscape, performing a unique, a sparkling spectacle, witnessed only by the trees and the bird-life.

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Technology is advancing much faster, that culture ability to make sense of it and in a world where communications devices are getting more complex; a man gets trapped in this complexity of communication; he tries to overcome this confusion through the advice that his mother told him the day before he went to Longdome.

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Cannibalism has long been a favourite on western menus. Other peoples' cannibalism, that is. More than a colonial culinary oddity, it divided the men from the animals; the savagery of the conquistadors was projected onto their victims - after all, they, too, sported feathers.

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Mervyn is deaf and recently has become blind. Mervyn perseveres through this. The lifecycle of a butterfly, memory and the simple act of making a cup of tea are entwined in this film. What is the sound of the sea to a man who has never heard?

Awards
RTS Student Award

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Set in the 1940s the film is based on a poem by Brenda Cook, an artist with learning difficulties. The film explores Brenda's early experiences and relationships. Brenda creates a fantasy world and refuses to allow her individuality to be dimmed.

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Exploring the threshold between the authentic and the fake, the apparitions of identical twin sisters guide the viewer deep into an investigation of the memory arena. Through the mirror and behind the curtain, the reflection of a play is trying to be witnessed.

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A young man stops at a telephone box to call his mother, but she is busy and takes an age to answer the phone.