The experimental student film ’The Befuddled Box of Betty Buttifint’ examines the fractured memory of Betty, an elderly woman whose confused mind provides the framework for a journey through the vivid landscape of her past as she struggles to make sense of the symbolic stages of her life.
Blurring the line between reality and memory, featuring ensemble performance, dance and song, the film seeks to explore the emotional fabric of which we are made. 'Befuddled' is ultimately a poetic reflection of the life, loves and losses in one woman’s fading world.
In 1934 while on a road trip, British painter Paul Nash placed several small geometric objects onto a car roof to photograph them. Invoking the nomadic inclination of idealised form, Transit of the Megaliths provides a road trip for a set of fragments derived from paintings of the 1920s-40s.
If the estimated 4.5 billion years our planet has been in existence is equated to 24 hours, modern humans have been around for 4 seconds. This film poses questions about our relationship with our home, and journeys from aerial terrains over Iceland to intimate macro worlds in southern England.
Marilyn is trying really hard to make something that is good. For once her expectations and reality are going to align, perfectly. It will be even better than she imagined. It will be epic. It will be tear-jerkingly profound. It will be perfecter than perfect. Nothing can go wrong.
An action sequence appropriated from a famous late 20th century Hollywood Science Fiction film is reprocessed to give it a look from an earlier period, making semi-abstract patterns where the world is turned right to left, sliding on its side.
The boundaries between childhood and adulthood become blurry for a kid at his mother’s cocktail party. In this experimental-narrative short, characters, symbols and abstractions interchange to examine the relationships between children and adults, escapism and sexuality.
Have you ever woken in the night unable to move, certain that you are not alone? This is an experimental documentary examining what happens when dreams leak into waking life. It is about what is real, what is not, and if it even matters.
The true story of Imperial Provisor Frombald, a very composed and efficient administrator. who is asked to travel deep into the Serbian countryside to resolve a spot of eighteenth century vampire hysteria that leaves him feeling nothing less than a little hysterical himself.
Experimental Animation. Third in a Trilogy of Films
Following Manufactured Noise and Indoctrination.
Total abstraction, subliminal rhythms, indoctrination and intrusion.
Are explored to an emotive soundtrack composed by the director
Michael Salkeld
Manufactured Britishness depicts a fictional future where immigrants must undergo physical assessments to demonstrate their worth as prospective British citizens. The narrative is set in post-industrial locations which are turned into training zones where immigrants engage in pre-learned and repetitive tasks in order to pass a bizarre test of citizenship.