Projects in genres: Experimental

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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.

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Dailies to Dawn is a poetic journey and tribute which celebrates celluloid film processing as a living form, passionate and organic, made by experience, collective work and ultimate craftsmanship at one of the last thriving film laboratories in the UK.

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A man heads to his local Lidl supermarket after God unexpectedly shows up at his door asking for a meal. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Journey Strand

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Robert, an ex-shipyard welder from Govan, Scotland, reflects on how his life experiences have influenced his new found compulsion to write. His retrospective poetry reveals a man who is trying to achieve a state of contentment through words and philosophy. He has replaced his tools for pens and paper.

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The story evolves around a middle aged man stuck in his clubbing days. As he opens up a box of tapes and flyers from his hardcore days and rediscovers his youth emotions start to run.