“It’s all about what you do with it afterwards…” one of the voices says. That is make it black and white, wriggle out of the 16:9 frame, and overlap and reverberate the talk and laughter.
In the run-up to the 2015 General Election, both major parties liked to remind people of the importance of the choice facing them. But how does the fear and confusion sown by politicians prevent us from making an informed decision at the ballot box?
Published on The Guardian website:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2015/may/01/vote-x-why-we-are-a-confused-electorate-video
A visually impaired young man awakes from unconsciousness to find the aftermath of a global catastrophe caused by environmental damage. Using his other senses he tries to come to terms with the devastation in his immediate environment. An eco-disaster short that shows the effects on an urban household.
Following the death of his grandfather, poet Ross Sutherland discovered an old videotape in his loft. On the tape were all the things they'd watched together: one-and-a-half films, a quiz show segment, and two sitcoms. Somehow they became the story of his life.
Inspired by the 1980s stoner mainstay of matching up 'The Wizard of Oz' with Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon, Ross draws out a series of stories from his life, synchronising them with the images on the tape. In the process, fragments of old films and TV shows are looped, destroyed, and re-built into an audiovisual meditation on memory, death and re-runs.
Hot Docs International Film Festival 2015 - World Premiere
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - UK Premiere
A portrait of teenage escort, Coco. Winner of the Illy Prize for Best Short Film, Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2015
"What begins as a summary of online reviews of a teenage escort becomes a provocative and formally audacious commentary on the fluidity of identities and perceptions of young women in the Internet age. Indeed, the only thing that's certain is that all these people who claim to know "Coco" may not know anything at all."
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Debate Strand
The world's first female US Navy Seal candidate awakens on a mysterious battlefield that will force her to confront her darkest secrets and a military conspiracy.
"A romp through the museums of England and Switzerland in which the objects on display come to life and reveal the stories of their creation. It is a celebration of the chaotic diversity conjured by the human hand and mind, and the eccentricity of museum collections." Paul Bush
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand
This film piece samples the title sequences, trailers, theme songs and publicity shots for some twenty adaptations of Jin Yong's mid-century wuxia classic, 'The Condor Trilogy', produced over nearly four decades, along with contemporary Google street views of suburban Britain, interweaving mundane and mythical landscapes with fantasies of fight and flight.
