Projects in genres: Experimental

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A flower-power plague of love that spreads from mice to cats, with twisted romantic results.  

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A young man is going through a traumatic event. He goes to a squash court to play on his own, but discovers that a hidden force wants to play him. He takes up the challenge and plays the match of his life. The tension builds as the match unfolds. Who exactly is he playing?

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The Dog Who Is a Cat Inside is a special animal. The dog and cat live together in the same body, but this causes conflict. They learn that only by resolving their differences and working together can they find happiness.   Commissioned by Ruth Fielding of Lupus Films as part of Channel 4 Television's Animator in Residence scheme.

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The last in the Fish in the Machine trilogy. A yellow puffer fish, caught in a world of mirrors, flickers from colour to high contrast black and white, in syncopation with the percussive rhythms of gamelan music. Suddenly, the video changes tone, incorporating an extract from a television broadcast with rather more political and social consequences for us all.

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Office-worker Bob thinks he's dreaming when a doll starts talking to him, until it helps him to find a girlfriend. But the doll won't stop talking, and keeps Bob awake each night. When he tries to end the relationship, the doll uses its powers to take revenge.

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Ghost & The Crystal  is a re-working in video clips from a film made by Stuart Pound almost thirty years ago. The new technology and the old examine each other with mock-cinematic effects of colour, contrast and movement. The soundtrack is contemporary music played on a traditional instrument of popular entertainment, the hurdy-gurdy.

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In 1971 the experimental film maker Anthony Stern travelled to Afghanistan with his 16mm film camera. The footage was lost for almost 30 years. Rediscovered in 2003, if forms the basis of this impressionistic film-poem, with an original soundtrack provided by the world fusion musicians 'Equa'.

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Future Legend has made several fictional films covering a range of genres. Always setting themselves high standards, their emphasis has been to produce high quality short films with a clear narrative, strong characters and wry humour.   In their latest production, ‘Up The Hill Backwards’, Future Legend has emulated what you might categorise as the classic European film style. The Director Richard Mann has followed his cinematic influences, such as Jacques Tati, Laurel & Hardy and the Ealing Comedies, to produce a highly stylised and distinctive film.   Set in a lively and energetic café ‘Up the Hill Backwards’ follows the mishaps of our hero, Charlie (played by Richard Mann). Charlie has just moved to town and is enjoying the active café culture when he catches the eye of Nadine (Beccy Killgariff). Stopping him in his tracks she hands Charlie her number with the intention of meeting for a date.   However, Nadine realises that Charlie isn’t all he is cracked up to be.

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A neurotic stop-frame analysis of the daily torture of the desk-bound being, freeze-frame tensions disrupting the film’s surface and material.

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Traumatic experiences shape the lives of a group of teenage girls living in the seaside town of Margate.

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A melancholy journey through a nebulous urban landscape. The film’s elliptic and fantastical progress along a universe parallel to the A13 trunk road takes place in the mind of a dying dog sniffing its way back to its birthplace in Barking.

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A collection of bizarrely original animated stories from scripts written by young children. Emulating the approach of New York’s 52nd Street Project and London’s Scene & Heard theatre groups, the film is voiced by professional adult actors and directed to render the children’s dramatic intentions as sincerely as possible. Three short films within one film: Revenge Is Cold – Woody the box of matches dreams of becoming a lighter. In the Mexican desert he encounters Antus, an untrustworthy cactus, who claims he can help him fufil his ambitions. Together they journey to ‘The Land of the Freeze’ – the North Pole – where a surprise is in store for both of them. Love Then First Fight – Bob Brakinlot the crowbar is a reformed criminal, determined to give himself a second chance. Into his world bursts Blossom Shritz, a shirt whose life has been torn apart. Desperate for acceptance and affection, they seem to offer each other “a chance to be average in a nasty world“. But can they both put the past behind them? Keep Going – A young egg, Stuart, escapes from his fridge in Scotland on a mission to meet his hero, Michael Jackson.