The Rising is a short film which depicts an invasive alien species, Giant Hogweed, as it rapidly colonizes the British landscape. Filmed throughout its annual growth cycle, The Rising captures the plant's dramatic infestation along a lowland riverbank in northern England. Part natural history part sci-fi, The Rising features an atmospheric soundtrack score by Lord Mongo, and presents the alien interloper as both a dangerous toxic menace and impressive natural wonder.
A session between a psychiatrist, a schizophrenic patient and his mother. Three directors depict the three characters and their perspectives across three screens. When one person's reality is in a different dimension from the others, can those realities ever meet?
‘Images of all past actions incessantly passing through the brain…’
An aging scientist, troubled and confused by remembrances from his past, toils night and day to (re-) discover secrets to the creation of life. The creature, struggling for existence in the natural world, journeys unceasingly to find its creator.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014 - World premiere
One Year. One Film. One Second a Day. One second of animation every day for the 365 days of the year 2013. No storyline, script or storyboard. The ideas come from things read, seen or experienced on the day, with a little artistic license for good measure.
A documentary about life, death and the universe starring six men called Brian. Using original and found footage, 'The Life of Brians' brings to life the thoughts and philosophies of six ordinary men as they contemplate their place on this earth.
An unapologetic conjunction of visual and auditory clichés, 'Urschrift' is a wry take on the forties American police procedural.
Screening history includes:
2015 The Films of Julia Dogra-Brazell Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, USA
2014 ALTERNATIVE Film/Video Festival, Academic Film Centre Belgrade
2014 Experimenta 58th BFI London Film Festival
2014 Australian International Experimental Film Festival
'A Caça Revoluções' is a film that explores the relationship between two generations, two different times and two different fights. As if we could transform a photograph by drawing on it. As if we could transform the present by drawing over the past.
A documentary revealing an observation on three barber shops throughout the course of one summer's day in the city of London - Hackney, Herne Hill and Catford..
No other city in the country expresses the thriving atmosphere of social, urban community like the city of London. Documentary film Director Mark Brown relates the audience to the events within the community, through the doors of shops in different parts of the city, giving a detailed interpretation of the diversity within the same culture.
A boy writes from Portugal to his sister, who lives in London. He writes one week before the 9th anniversary of their mother’s death, confessing that he wants to go back in time to remember her and the 25th of April 1974, the revolution day.
The spoken text of Père Lachaise is a poem about scattering ashes, illicitly, in the famous Paris cemetery. On the screen, the central image is the face of the dead woman, photographed in ATS uniform in black and white. The face is almost always partly obscured by flames. But there is humour in the text, and the brilliant colours of the flames, and the fairground music, suggest life and energy.
This short Anidoc was in response to the Light Princess production in Autumn 2013. Bringing documentary and 2D animation styles together we decided to interview a group of young dancers and hear their thoughts on being a Princess. What would they do as a Princess? Would they listen to the King who would be their Father?
A gentle film with moments of humour. You may be surprised by the answers by some of these young girls.
In Association with the National Theatre.
