Projects in genres: Experimental

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The Collector's Case was produced during Yelena Popova’s residency at Upton House, a National Trust property in Warwickshire. The video records the time Popova spent working with the collection of paintings at Upton House and reflects on the temporality of a painting collection.

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The Lawes of the Marches documents the ancient border tradition of the Common Ridings all along the border of England and Scotland. These ridings are about marking and commemorating the past with as much relevance today as when they began in 1500.

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Part of the ongoing work, 'Fucking Finland', exploring unintended cultural chinks and links in the old Iron Curtain, 'Your Silent Face' follows the dockers of Rostock at rest, as a Baltic ferry leaves port for Hanko in Finland.

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Everyone in the world has the same identity. Over a period of time, one person starts to discover he's different and can move on his own accord. He realises he has his own identity and decides to separate from everyone else.

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Weaving around a theory of immortality based on the premise that our lives are a summation of all the information we consume and process, the film draws on my personal history's brush with a global nuclear disaster, to precipitate a meditation on the potential role of an individual in the imaginary film/event of our individual or collective death: as a protagonist or an extra appearing in a handful of frames at the very moment of their death.

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Inspired by the words of Nelson Mandela, OF THE UNKNOWN explores the living conditions of Hong Kong’s so-called ‘cage dogs’.

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The time has finally arrived. Sen has prepared an amazing dinner for his date, Esther. She is the perfect date. They are perfect humans, as has been written in all the main books. But like all good plans, things don't turn out quite like our hero expected.

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Martin, a recovered drug addict, agrees to lock a stranger in his spare room while they go cold turkey. As the days go on, Martin begins to suspect something far worse is at play, but his judgment is clouded by temptations to fall back into old habits.

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‘Breake off this last lamenting kisse, which sucks two soules and vapors both away.’ Inspired by John Donne’s poem, The Expiration reveals the bittersweet moments of a love’s last breath. An evocative, inner journey of two lovers as they accept they must reluctantly part forever.

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“'O, Persecuted' turns the act of restoring Kassem Hawal’s 1974 Palestinian Militant film, 'Our Small Houses', into a performance possible only through film. One that involves speed, bodies, and the movement of the past into a future that collides ideology with escapism.” —Basma Alsharif Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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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.

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'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