Projects in genres: Experimental

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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. Trailer password: Hetty22

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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.

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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.

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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.