A meditative reflection on the absences found in rural pastoral environments, which are often framed by a false romanticism and picturesque conventions, constructed as tourist sites within rural landscapes across Britain.
An immersive 360 experience created by Human Studio interpreting three scenes from an original short story by Nick Bax.
The Neon Pack is a Protopian Tale which takes place in a very near future where XR technology is seamlessly fused into our everyday lives, enhancing even the most mundane of activities.
The project was commissioned by Hope Works and match-funded by XR Stories (University of York) and attempts to provoke thought and discussion regarding the development and proliferation of XR technology and content.
To date, ‘The Neon Pack’ has been exhibited at Sónar+D (Barcelona, 2023), the Immersive Futures Lab, SXSW, (Austin, Texas, 2023) and BEYOND, Cardiff City Hall (2022). An augmented reality iteration of the project was also displayed in Sheffield city centre until 2025 as part of the ‘Look Up’ AR artworks project.
The Neon Pack features original soundtrack by 96 Back on CPU Records.
A stranger in the family becomes a ghost child and awakens the monsters and desires of a queer childhood... THE PERPETRATORS collages film, animation and archive in a dreamy autofiction of queer darkness, incorporating 1980s Stranger Danger, the construction of homosexual identity and the institution of the family.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023
A group of islanders gather evidence of corporate manslaughter for the disaster they fear is inevitable. History repeats itself in this hybrid documentary; to imagine the future disaster potentially set to befall the Essex island - again.
In a nondescript forest, two exiled individuals are about to reincarnate into the next life while striking up an intimate conversation on family legends, collective histories, love tales and folklore. The dialogue between the two characters appears only on screen, as the film is led by a sonic narrative – a score composed for the work by British trumpeter Kevin G. Davy. Juxtaposing analogue film and digital animation, the film collapses notions of time and space. The project explore queerness, migration, and colonial ghosts haunting relations amongst China, West Africa and the Caribbean past and now, drawing from both personal and historical perspectives.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - World premiere
This film revisits the Chinese wallpaper from the 18th century at Harewood House. Such an exotic artefact was used by the landed gentry as a token of other to imagine the wider world. As the wallpaper was made in China, this film also explores self-representation through the artist’s personal photos.
Three strangers - all of whom work for the same corporation - take part in a management training day. Their volatile role-play task is to fire an imagined co-worker, exploring the worst possible reactions they might receive to eliminating another person’s livelihood.
A mysterious intergalactic art collector has their sights on one of earth's masterpieces. But a plucky security guard ensures it will not be a simple lift.
Composed of UFO 'witness' videos from across the globe - brief, ephemeral clips that inhabit the blurry boundary between error, hoax, and genuinely unidentified phenomena - HELLO BIG WEIRD is a playful meditation on the cognitive dissonance that can occur when a once-ridiculed subculture edges into respectability.
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2023
LDN 51.5072N 0.1276W examines the influence of the Industrial Revolution via the relics from architecture in London, reflecting the effects technology has had on transforming traditional notions of work, community, and identity.
Official Selection Vienna Shorts 2023
An old lady living lonely and isolated is waiting for her daughter to come over for tea. As the waiting drags on and her loneliness gets more and more intense, plants start sprouting everywhere in her kitchen. At first the old lady is angry at the plants but eventually starts to embrace them and accept them as her new company after her daughter cancels last minute.
What better to do while waiting for a bus than ponder on the clouds in the blue sky above and their place in our lives? The soundtrack is a composition made from a single recording of the poet's voice, and is best heard through headphones.
