Projects in genres: Experimental

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A desktop expedition and documentary, woven from satellite imagery found online to make an extraordinary five-minute journey around the world, encountering the splintered voices of bloggers which interleave and overlap as if to form a single conversation.

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A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries, structures and languages, the lessons are not going well… Mixed media including 3D CGI, live action, compositing and puppetry.

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An upside-down time-lapse camera moves along a beach, inverting the sand and sky as the weather changes. The result is a disorienting and mysterious space where the originally solid ground at the top of the frame appears to be sliding past like a lava-stream. 16mm time-lapse photography.

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A vivid imagination can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life. Twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks offer an enticing escape, and even a mundane room may be made more bearable by mentally morphing space and time. But the real world continues, demanding, undermining, overwhelming… Elaborate Flash drawn animation subtly enhanced in compositing programs.

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Fairground ride becomes human Zoetrope as we marvel at the joy and pain of the cycle of life, from birth to death and everything inbetween. All displayed within a real giant spinning barrel in three minutes and one shot.

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At the party, humans, animals and ‘other-worldly’ beings dance the night away. She’s a monster, she is gorgeous, He is well fit, my fur is wet. I’m so happy I’m going to throw up, I’m going to kick your head in! We believe in happy endings. A textured collage of drawn and digital 2D illustration with DV live-action.

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The sea is intentionally murderous. The beach and surf are as a lure and weapon against the unwary.

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A ‘film fragment’ eschewing any straightforward narrative intention, causation or chronological structure.

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Shot in 2006 in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the film tracks through the Near Eastern, African and Oceanic collections, offering fleeting glimpses of statues, bowls and historical artefacts.

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Divis Tower and Mountain and a dead rapper

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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.

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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'.