Made in Full 2.39:1 Cinemascope with full surround sound to place the audiences at the centre of the orchestration composed by the director, the experimental abstract visuals interpret the complexity of the score.
'Chromatic Aberration' explores the early technologies of colour filmmaking drawn from the archives of George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Featuring vibrant close-ups of eyes from fledgling archival experiments in colour film, 'Chromatic Aberration' turns the cinematic lens in on itself: from the prosthetic recording eye of the camera, to an evocation of the abstract inner screen of one's eyelids.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand
An experimental take on the documentary film format, Cumulus was crafted solely through the manipulation of the social media data and digital content of Imogen Heap, and interactions with her fans.
Looking back at his visits to Poland and East Germany many years later, the filmmaker questions idealised imaginings of life in other places, times and political systems.
It was only in the 20th century that we needed identity papers to cross national borders. In a century when we invented aviation, when we invented cinema, when we could move more and see more than at any other point in history why did we become so watchful and performative?
Undead Sun looks back at the seismic impact of the First World War and considers how so many of the products of that conflict continue to shape our contemporary experience.
Shot in London, Shadow Gene explores characteristics in the human race which contradict its own survival: violence and greed.
A beautiful female assassin on a mission to destroy a defective gene in the male species uncovers a corrupt and murky world of corporate power. Raised by a mysterious woman and nurtured into becoming a ruthless hit woman, she targets 'corporate' types who unknowingly carry the notorious 'shadow gene', a parasite gene that compels its hosts to become as violent and greedy as the stock markets demand... without remorse. One day although seemingly accomplishing her mission an encounter with a smug corporate executive sets of a chain of events that shifts the power between victim and perpetrator.
Shot largely in London with a minimalist cast and crew on a tiny budget using aging out-of-date 16mm and Super 8 film stocks (some up to 40 years old), Shadow Gene utilises 2D animation, live action, graphic and photographic imagery along with a haunting piano score to tell its story, along the way creating a kaleidoscopic narrative that reveals aspects of corporate greed from the time of the nineteenth century Luddite to the present day 'Occupy London' Movement.
"ORWO, is an excellent yet inexpensive 16mm film stock made in Eastern Germany and used by many experimental filmmakers in the past. I scratch off the image surface with a needle then sweep away the emulsion dust beneath the microscope... I used a low powered USB microscope purchased from a LIDL supermarket in West London to capture the image to computer. The deliberately scratched film originates from a 16mm roll used to make image masks for my film 'St.Paul's Cathedral Movie', processed at the London Film-makers' Co-op in 1972." Stuart Pound
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand
A ghost actor haunts his screen life, and is haunted by it, to the clicking of a projector. What you see is scraps of film under a microscope, with its sprocket holes, oily colour, and accumulated fluff and dust.
Presented on paper, the concrete poem "Full Stop" (taken from Zata's poetry collection "Doppelgängers", 2005) takes the shape of a circular full stop. In this transcreation, the material is presented aurally as Morse Code, and visually as a moving telegram. This artwork was funded by Arts Council England.
Pale Shadows is told through the eyes of a young storyteller. She reveals the story of Bradamante who travels to a magical island to reclaim her lost lover Ruggeiro from the enchantress Alcina. This is a rich visionary approach to Handel’s opera Alcina, which explores the intrigue and turmoil of love.
