Following the recent death of an artist friend L from home, who allegedly suffered from schizophrenia for more than 15 years, the artist talks to L through an imagined letter exchange, where they confront each other on notions of home, vulnerability, resistance, memory, and fraught relations.
Centering on an architectural model of the artist's childhood room, the film is entirely shot on super 8mm and accompanied by an immersive recording at the artist's home, as well as original music from London-based experimental group Langham Research Centre. The film draws from archival footage from journalistic report on May 1968, early artist filmmakers' home videos, as well as makes references to late 60s structural cinema that prioritises light and space, as an autonomous site for resistance.
A quietly poignant domestic film made of images gathered around the house and its surroundings over a two-year period. The title might seem self-explanatory, we do see pillows, bowls, roses, trees – but also curtains, tablecloths, saucers, other trees and flowers (in the garden and arranged on vases). We sense the changing seasons and we sense a lived-in space – one that is shared as the pillow arrangements suggest. Working with a Bolex camera involves a tension between the technology and the world surrounding the filmmaker, the maximum shot length is limited to around 20 seconds because of the windup spring motor. (Open City Documentary Festival programme).
Official Selection Open City Documentary Festival 2023
SHADOWTIME is an immersive VR work. "You are in two worlds at the same time. Your body is in the other world, but your heart is in this one."
To exist in the virtual world is to have two bodies, four hands, two hearts. Alma, a mysterious guide to this double world, leads you through questions around the climate crisis, irreconcilable realities, and the virtual as a place to take shelter.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Frozen within the memory of a single violent moment, a woman describes the events, thoughts and feelings that led her to this place.
Official Selection PÖFF Shorts - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023
A poignant tale of one boy's attempt to cut off a part of himself in the wake of his baptism.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition
An artist's film aiming to abstract and reframe a relationship to newly built high-rise buildings across London.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024 - International premiere
An animated documentary that explores ghosts and gentrification in Shepherd's Bush Market using 2D digital animation, live action footage, oral histories, memories, and archival images.The film presents this West London market as a vital urban common, a site for community, care, and resistance in a predominantly immigrant neighbourhood.
Blades of grass create the sensation of a high speed movement. Sparks fly off in all directions.
An experimental animation made with the phytogram technique that was invented by the filmmaker.
A desolate speech is being rehearsed and delivered at the very same time, a stone becomes the physical manifestation of despair, heavy arms fall to the rhythm of anxiety, while an empty space is incessantly hunted by intrusive blue thoughts.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023
