Projects in genres: Music

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A celebration of the life and works of guitar virtuoso Mick Ronson, the rock hero and significant Bowie collaborator. As a member of Bowie’s backing band The Spiders From Mars in the early 1970s, Ronson contributed to some of the most iconic compositions, lyrics and recordings in contemporary music.
Ronson went on to record several solo albums and also earned a reputation as a sought-after session musician who played with Ian Hunter, Lou Reed and Morrissey, and toured with Bob Dylan and Van Morrison.

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Whitney Houston was the most awarded female recording artist of all time, with more consecutive number one hits than The Beatles, and on top of that she was America’s Sweetheart. Yet despite her fame, talent, and success, she died tragically at the age of 48.
Featuring largely never-before-seen footage and recordings and interviews with some of her closest collaborators and friends, this moving documentary tells the story of the girl behind the voice, her extraordinary life and her tragic death.
According to band members, “Can I Be Me” was her most used expression, so much so they sampled it and would play it at the start of rehearsals.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2017 - Spotlight Documentrary - World premiere

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A 27-minute meditation on the ever-expanding fractal universe with recurring themes of transformation and altered perception, switching scale from microscopic topography to the vast distances of the cosmos.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 - International premiere
Official Selection Aguilar de Campoo International Short Film Festival 2018 - Winner, Jury Award

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Set amidst the euphoric madness of a summer music festival, 'Robot & Scarecrow' is a uniquely modern fairytale about love. When a robot pop princess flees her keeper she runs straight into the arms of a lonely scarecrow desperate for adventure. They spend an incredible night together, caught in a heady vortex of music and magic.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Create Strand - Short Film Competition

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Inspired by the work of Sigmund Freud, 'Whist' invites you on a journey into the unconscious mind, where your instincts will guide you through a narrative of surreal dreams and fears. The experience merges Physical Theatre and Mixed Reality Technology, in an environment that blurs the boundaries.

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Jess is an eighteen-year-old from London balancing her responsibilities as a daughter with her ambitions of a career in dance. When she is confronted with just how cold and unjust life can be during a journey to work, her perspective of the world around her begins to shift.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Journey Strand

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In 1977, immigration divides Britain. What happens when a punk fanzine challenges the status quo?
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - International Documentary Short Film Selection - World premiere

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A musical interpretation of the fading career prospects of an old actor and his wife's dissatisfaction with him.

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Original footage was taken from the internet, reprocessed into vertical stripes with three frame blocks of positive black & white alternating with high contrast negative.
These dance spotlights were part of the International Lindy Hop Competition held in Washington, D.C in 2013.

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An exploration of Japan’s fascination with girl bands and their music, following an aspiring pop singer and her fans, delving into the cultural obsession with young female sexuality and the growing disconnect between men and women in hypermodern societies.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - World Cinema Documentary Competition - World premiere

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BALLET POINTE SHOES is a short period fantasy and original fairy tale written by Gisela Pereira, inspired by the 18th and 19th century in England and the red shoes tale. It tells the story of a ballerina who breaks her pointe shoes and looks for a shoemaker to fix them. She encounters a magic shoemaker who is able to repair the pointe shoes giving them a life of its own.

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When your memory fades, your grip on reality becomes fragile and the sense of self slowly slips away. In a synagogue hall in North West London, a group of elderly people gather to find release. Using music and song they try to reconnect with themselves. Through the poetic use of poignant personal photographs and carefully assembled voiced-over memories, this film takes us into the emotional heart of these people, coping with the onset of Dementia.