Projects in genres: Experimental

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Appearances are all – or are they – in this jazz-inflected chamber piece (for maid and mistress) on the sensual solitude of women. Check into the Edward Hopper hotel and role reversal might be more than skin deep. For sure the distress is not just on the painted surface. Live action, action painting? Your choice, your dream, your isolation, your identity charade.

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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.

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An Edwardian gentleman is tormented by spirits who appear through holes in his sitting-room wall paper. The film was fully-funded by the London Production Fund 2001. 'G.M.' was inspired by the work of magician and film pioneer Georges Melies (1861-1938), whose most famous film - 'Le Voyage Dans La Lune' - was exactly one hundred years old in 2001.

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An experiment in personal history. The footage was shot in the London docklands, and its trains and bridges prompt a meditation on nationality, identity and language, spoken in German with English subtitles. The speaker's first words, in German, are " I don't speak German".

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A young man lies motionless in a country lane. He relives events in his mind, and all becomes clear.

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A spinning top is spun and several everyday actions become interconnected, through the power of editing. Then it all starts to go wrong.

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A chance encounter: as a boy cycles up a quiet country lane, an apple falls from tree and rolls downhill towards him.

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A troubled teenager purges her abusive past in a dream of her own making.

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Drawing on despair, sketching the skeleton. Mortality marks. From Keats to Robert Burton, a major body of woe is made. Light is not the only thing that is passing.

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Vision on again as the eyes have it after doing time in the dark. A post-operative sight recorder voices the hope, scores the fear. Taking things at face value. It looks like it might just work.

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25 voices from 16 countries, respond to an invitation to express their view for a new world, in a poetic documentary that explores, and acknowledges, the importance of personal viewpoint and individual ideologies of hope, and for change.

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They say that neurotic behaviour is typically within socially acceptable limits, so how do you solve the puzzles in your head while being ''normal''? A film that explores the borders between the different ways a mind can be scattered.