Projects in genres: Experimental

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The action in the film revolves around a large pagan-like head covered in grass set within the post-industrial cityscape. The monologue '50 ways to murder magic’ ( Artaud 1947) running in the background, is audible intermittently.In parallel to the dialogue the narrative is fragmented, interspersed by sequences of animated drawings.

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At the age of ninety-two, Isabella struggles to remember... As she becomes ever fragile and her short-term memory begins to falter, her past is explored, questioned and brought to life.
How much of your life do you need to remember to remain yourself?

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An image taken from the internet of the young Ezio Pinza and an old vinyl recording of this great Italian singer are brought together.

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From the future, a memory in the form of a poem evokes a happy childhood before a turbulent war. This memory comes in the shape of a space trip that links the present (words) and the past (still photos) through the war (moving image), creating an audiovisual experience that binds the viewer to a mysterious place where adulthood (consciousness), adolescence (cinema) and childhood (photo and music) live together in a permanent tension.

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The Pagoda in London’s Kew Gardens is rarely open to the public. It was open for a short time last year and I took the opportunity to climb all 253 wooden steps having first done so 60 years before.

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A film about a time-travelling, brutalist architecture, utopian desire, digital decay, and the demolition of John Madin’s Birmingham Central Library. Michael Lightborne’s experimental film uses abstraction, digital processing, and a throbbing synth soundtrack to uncover the ecstatic life of a doomed building.

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The Gerrard Street Chinatown is perhaps London's greatest museum. Everything is displayed behind glass walls– people, actions, novelties, food items. It's the reconstruction of a culture from another side of the world. Through the glass's surface reflections, the artist sees reflections of himself and remembers sounds from his recent past.

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As real life becomes a performance the question is posed which of them is real? Is any of it? Despite the doubts there seems to be an inability to escape the potency of the fiction. It is mundane mechanism of daily life that provide the means of questioning ones fiction.

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An essay video work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the funeral of the filmmakers’ family matriarch. Using personal archive to explore the concepts of female identity, diaspora, cultural memory and most importantly ‘fiction’.

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They say that neurotic behavior is typically within socially acceptable limits, so how do you solve the puzzles in your head while being "normal''?
This film explores the borders between the different ways a mind can be scattered while in a process of trying to express its thoughts.

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An abstract film exploring surface, depth and how the past and present exist alongside each other.
A woman re-meets a former partner in a city for a day, trying to live the moment while reflecting on what has been preserved and destroyed.

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An abstract film exploring surface, depth and how the past and present exist alongside each other.
A woman re-meets a former partner in a city for a day, trying to live the moment while reflecting on what has been preserved and destroyed.