Projects in genres: Experimental

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The stories of the desperate souls who pass through the doors of 508, a room on the fifth floor of an anonymous, decaying hotel.
A surreal and blackly comic journey down the hotel's lonely corridors and behind its out-dated furnishings and stained surfaces. The story plunging into the ever-turning carousel of haunted lives who check in and out of the establishment. Adulterers, lonely businessmen, and hustlers grapple with their demons whilst a prying, occasionally sinister hotel staff always seems to be within earshot. Inside this hotel the mundane transforms into an implement of threat; a faulty light fixture appears to contain a hidden camera; a heating unit whispers to guests with increasing menace; a television set randomly flips channels, displaying TV shows which reveal a guest's secret paranoid fantasies; and a stray look into the bathroom mirror becomes the quickest way to disprove your existence.

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One of a series of videos in which everything happens at the edges of the frame. In this piece waves build up (in stereo) and then unfurl.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives - World premiere

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Interweaving the directors’ lived experiences of present-day Nicosia with their memories as children whose fathers served with the RAF in Cyprus, FATHER-LAND explores notions of home, loss and displacement in the politically charged space of the UN Buffer Zone, the demilitarised strip that has partitioned the island since 1974.

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Between the 1960s and 70s three sisters each ate from her own coloured enamel plate at a specific place at the table.
PLATES juxtaposes audiovisual recording of material objects with narrative interpretations of their past context. Each plate manifests an individual sound, colour, and damage. Evoking interpretations of childhood identity.

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The film gives insight in to Alyssa's anxiety phase of grieving as hallucinations build to a peak, blurring her understanding of time and mortality before reaching an emotional rebirth.

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There are always some moments you don’t want to say a word. The world is silent, and you turn silent.

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Global in scope but intimate in spirit, a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and buzzing metropoles New York and Hong Kong.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - World premiere

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By turns raucous and reserved, 'I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead' ponders the future of a world in flux as seen through the eyes of motherhood accented by poets CAConrad and Eileen Myles.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future

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A beautiful and enigmatic collection: wedding architecture; animals; John Cage; and John Ashbery
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere

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Following artist Bill Drummond over two years of his 12-year World Tour: At work in Kolkata, India, and in Lexington, North Carolina, doing his self-imposed 'work' – building beds, baking cakes, making soup, shining shoes – to the variously amused, perplexed or annoyed reactions of those around him.

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An odyssey across a common land in the south of England told through the hands of the members of the Natural History Society who currently occupy it.

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I AM ECHOBORG is a participatory dramatic experience created afresh each time by the audience having a conversation with an artificial intelligence. The production team built a real AI and the content and the outcome of the show depend on the words spoken by the audience and the AI.