Projects in genres: Experimental

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CABBAGE reframes language, illuminating relationships of care at its centre. Bureaucratic violence is contrasted with lived experience: the filmmaker centralises her brother’s writing (who is non-verbal and non-mobile) using eye tracking technology, and her mothers reflections, to explore layers of power, and to reclaim it within an ableist paradigm. Official Selection Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2023

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A powerful exploration into the implications of today's AI technology. An immersive film experience set in a future world where people are resisting weaponised technology and bias algorithms in favour of AI Democratisation which has now become a human rights issue. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - Winner XR Experience Competition Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2023 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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This dance mocap performance explores fantastical interaction and embodiment beyond the humanoid avatar form, challenging and reimagining the normative and ableist ways the body is understood and represented through immersive technology. Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - XR Experience Spotlight - World premiere

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"Only when I was singing did I feel loved...to sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming." In this experimental film, Maria Callas is transfigured in recordings of different performances - Norma, Tosca and Medea. The film is composed as an audio-visual ICONOSTASIS (a wall of icons) of different archive formats and newly shot footage. MARIA is a transcendent experimental vision of an icon, artist and woman.

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Exploring the relationship between people and birds through a combination of hand drawn animation and photographic collage, centring around the community of pigeon keepers in Glasgow.

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A curated collection of 12 people's real tributes and thoughts about saying farewell for the last time; from unsent letters, eulogies, and sentences, it is an epitaph to those awaiting that bittersweet closure, and a chance to express sweet words left unsaid.

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In 1986 an amateur theatre group staged a production of Macbeth so disastrous that it made international headlines ... allegedly. Forty years later a filmmaker sets out to find out what really happened. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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A meditation on memory, loss, and the spectral presence of ancestry, where the past and present collapse into a liminal space beyond time. Through archival imagery and ritualistic gestures, the film questions what it means to mourn, remember, and exist beyond the material world.

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A sci-fi city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Created from archive footage, the film unfolds through fictional letters from a post-apocalyptic future. The film invites us to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate emergency and our global destiny. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition - World premiere Official Selection Uppsala Short Film Festival 2023

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Luke Fowler’s portrait of Scottish poet and filmmaker Margaret Tait takes its inspiration from her unrealised project about her home region of Orkney, drawing and riffing on her notes and footage to produce a blissful union of two artistic sensibilities. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Forum - International premiere Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023

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In excavating her own body, Beth confronts her own intrusive perversions in this dystopian reimagining of the body’s extinction.

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A hypnotic hand drawn animation; a mysterious transmission revealing playful geometric possibilities. The film provides a meditative and contemplative space, oscillating between flatness and depth, control and instability.