Each poem leads to the next characters; a butcher carving meat reflects on his wife naked in their bathroom, a bag lady in a blizzard on the war memorial, crazy street preacher at the monument, a toddler being led through streets and arcades by his mother.
During the peacefulness and sunshine at the start of the pandemic in the UK, a young girl hears creatures talking in the countryside near her home. She uses this discovery to entice her older sister out of a depression. The film uniquely integrates audio description into the main soundtrack.
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Digitopia is a short film that goes in search of the emotional undercurrents of the digital domain. It is a film about a man living between the analogue and digital worlds, a man who works in the former but seeks his pleasures in the latter.
An exploration of geometry and gravity through the complex. It seeks to experiment with viewpoint, orientation and camera movement together with sound shape-shifting to disturb and undermine the 'normal' perceptions of reality.
A film poem exploring the destructive power of our popular media, the constraints it places on what we consider beautiful and the damage caused to those who identify with the endless images of physical perfection.
The film evolves from the practice of film maker Barry Hale and dancer/choreographer Jane Mulchrone. Within the space time dynamics of video feedback, tiny actions can clearly be seen to generate instant and massive change.
Inspired by sculptor Bill Ming's life-size wood carvings of human figures, the film takes its subject from the idea of masks, the concealment of what lies behind them and the revealing of layers within human identity.
G.M. is a surrealist film in which an Edwardian gentleman is alternately tormented and rescued by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wallpaper. It was inspired by the work of film pioneer Georges Melies.
Hinterland is a resonant documentary that focuses on a community which lives on the fastest eroding coastline in England. The film asks how it feels to live in such a precarious situation with homes threatened by the elements.
Kaleidoscopics brings together pornographic stills from the internet and bubbles at the edge of running water, putting both through the same digital processes. Eyes, faces and limbs surface and sink again in sequences of coloured tessellations, lead by a music soundtrack that overlays breathy sound with formal patterning.
