Projects in genres: Experimental

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Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th Century painting of slaves in chains called 'Scene on the Coast of Africa'. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera. Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama 40

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A short glimpse into the world of autism, in which the words, drawings, music and animation are all contributed by autistic people. Every design comes from drawings by autistic children and adults, the narration is in their own voices, and the piano and flute music was specially recorded by two autistic performers, the pianist also composing some of it. Commissioned by Channel 4 for its Disabling World season.

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A dream life of angels. What wings really mean. The wise wound and its belly music. Desire is vulvic and creativity claims the calendar of bodies.

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A day in the life – crossing the sprawl for dinner. 3D sets and model/drawn/photo animation make a city. And the guy in the gantry isn’t just cleaning windows…

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Hot time, summer in the city… A hued thought in a green shade – the life of a square from flesh to ‘paint’ via video. 24 hours of light.

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Well met by moonlight – room service for the spirit. A one-take dream in Cocteauesque monochrome.

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Grotesque Wild West goes vaudeville. Prairie tales in stark, dark ink to outrage and illuminate. Six 3-minute episodes: Slim Pickin’s – poor ole’ Josh finds he’s the victim of false promises. That’s Nothin’ – a few of the boys get together in the saloon. Murder! – an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. The silent majority get their way. High Noon – Clint and Chuck face each other out in the final showdown. The Conformist – “If you want to fit in around here, you best do what’s expected of yer.” Outrage – The whole of Joseville is disgusted by the behaviour of their young folk.

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Triggered by an actual news item about suicidal octogenarian twins, The Stain is a dark, domestic thriller which uses drawn, puppet, pixilation and live-action animation styles to spin a claustrophobic web of incest and intrigue.

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Based on the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Derek Jarman's nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous. THE GARDEN was originally screened in the Forum programme of the Berlinale in 1991, garnering an OCIC Award - Honourable Mention. Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum Archival Constellations

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Mona Hatoum left Beirut in 1975 for a short visit to London. When war broke out in the Lebanon she found it impossible to return. In this video, letters from her mother in Beirut, written in Arabic, move across the screen. They are read aloud, in English, by the artist. Hatoum's mother is also heard, speaking openly about her feelings and sexuality, accompanied by images of her in the shower. Hatoum's video suggests exile and displacement. She has said it also challenges 'the stereotype of Arab women as passive, mother as non-sexual being'.

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Young men find themselves scattered and defencelessly exposed to a merciless sun. Their gaze moves off searchingly into the distance. Deserted places appear to offer vague promises of refuge. On a prison wall, an explosive image of desire emerges, full of hope for freedom. Constantine Giannaris relishes in mixing light and colour with the textures of Super 8 and video footage to express the thoughts of the poet Jean Genet. Greatly affected by the AIDS epidemic, he addresses the desire for love as well as the threat of isolation and death in a restless cinematographic delirium. Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Panorama 40

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An epicene angel flutters its wings and smokes a cigarette in this ejaculatory study of frustration, torment, stupidity and insolence. With Cerith Wyn Evans as the angel and music by Michael Nyman. Made at the Royal College of Art in 1985.