BlkBx.mov explores and expands upon the technological notion of black boxing, identifying it as a contemporary dispositif across technology, science, religion, ideology and pop culture.
Inspired by the writing of Jean Genet and made in collaboration with members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community in Plymouth, whose personal narratives of longing and loss are told through a series of encounters in the liminal, waterfront spaces of the city's border with the sea.
NOT AND OR involves black and white quadrilaterals spinning in virtual space that alternate with the same static shapes re-filmed from a screen in real space. The second half of the piece is the same as the first, but flipped, reversed and re-filmed again, through successive generations - adding while taking away.
Over the course of 15 years Terry Thompson collected tigers, lions, bears, and other exotic animals. He had a complicated relationship with the law, and his neighbours. T's World unpacks the events surrounding his 2011 animal release and suicide.
"Walk With Me?" is a Guerrilla feature film shot according to 'the Guerrilla Filmmaker's Handbook' by Chris Jones. This film takes a surreal look into the life and mind of a writer who is healing after a car accident and suffering with Insomnia in London. She finds inspiration from the characters she meets in her dreams. Dreams and reality become blurred as her insomnia and sleeplessness fuel her writing.
A lilting paean to the manifold strains of native grass that cultivate upon Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh. Frenetic movement and textures dominate the frame, and the synergy between sound, locomotion, and image creates a hypnotic sensory panorama.
Exploring ideas of landscape and dislocation, ‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes architect Lionel Brett's 1965 book ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its sole raw material, isolating and reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design as pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.
A pool and a reflection
Held down below the gentle, rippling surface
Hidden between the stabbing and persistent pulse of falling rain
Waiting to resurface
From 2010-2013 I recorded every departure from my parents home on an iPhone. form relationships with cameras and these in turn expose the relationships I have with my family. The routine that I followed reveals the dissolution of a family home.
Telling the story of a girl, through the eyes of her older, wiser self. Shown in a daze of colour, she falls into a nightmarish state of mind. And through an audio-visual platform the narrative blurs and distorts into a new reality - revealing a burning new picture of truth.
#1 and #2 are searching for their magnum opus, the one story that will bring them clarity, purpose. When they struggle to find inspiration in our world, they are ripped from it...but what happens when you lose control of the world you create? Forget the story. Meet the tellers.
