An eating disorder speaks. This digital video made over twenty years ago has been re-framed in a higher resolution format. The unchanged poetry soundtrack is augmented with under titles for clarity. The abstract images shown were made without a camera, using computer software to mirror and repeat them across a now elongated frame.
Figure is a film about boys growing up without fathers. It explores how early detachment from a father figure affects emotional growth and engagement with the world. Through a fusion of physical theatre and hip-hop dance, it follows two young men as they search for answers outside and inside themselves.
Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of memories and visions as medics transport him through the forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, this film explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Film Competition
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - International Competition
BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British Short Animation
18-year-old Anne explores body image self-perception and her understanding being a woman today in two different worlds: that of her traditionally "feminine" mother, Céline, at home; and the gym where she trains amongst like-minded people.
Official Selection Cannes 2019 - Critics Week
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020
This macabre fairy tale follows a lonely teenager who finds an abandoned camera and turns it on herself in her quest for companionship. Her controlling father, intent on preventing her happiness plays an unwitting role in her tragic fate.
On December 1st 1990, watched by the world’s media, construction worker Graham Fagg of Dover climbed through a hole in a chalk wall 40 metres below the seabed of the English Channel, shook the hand of Philippe Cozette of Calais and shouted, “Vive la France!”. On June 23rd 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. Inspired by a message for motorists on Eurotunnel trains, 'Song for Europe' is an underwater celebration of Britain’s connection to mainland Europe. (John Smith)
Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Forum Expanded - World premiere
A man prays in the Muslim tradition while his children try to distract him by climbing on his back. This is a recurring scenario that many try to film at home and upload to YouTube. The film reenacts this script to show the tender side of a father praying.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum Expanded - Group Exhibition at Betonhalle
Featuring a district in Yerevan, Armenia, where the legacy of the Soviet Union still occupies the minds and daily lives of the residents living in these huge unfinished monolithic structures, which were originally planned and positioned to spell out the letters CCCP.
The film highlights the community's everyday issues and concerns, linking the past and present with all its changes and difficulties of the people once living in a superpower that has now become a decaying empire.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2019 - International Competition
Inspired by Derek Jarman’s 1978 queer punk film 'Jubilee', 'Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033' follows author Ayn Rand and members of her Collective, including economist Alan Greenspan, on an acid trip in 1955. Guided by an artificial intelligence named Azuma, they are transported to a dystopian future Silicon Valley. As Apple, Facebook, and Google campuses burn, Azuma reveals that Ayn has become a celebrity philosopher to tech executives, as her writings foster their entrepreneurial spirit. Amidst the wreckage, Rand and The Collective are introduced to the internet and observe techies being captured by anti-campus groupies. Once inside an occupied office park, the group encounters Nootropix, a contra-sexual, contra-internet prophet, who lectures on the end of the internet as we know it. Seeking respite, Rand and The Collective find themselves at Silicon Beach, where chunks of polycrystalline silicon mix with sand and ocean.
Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Forum Expanded
