Projects in genres: Music

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Jimmy hates musicals. When Eugenius – the cosmically charged, all-singing, all-dancing musical Godfather – tap dances into Jimmy’s tedium, Jimmy is swept off to a magical theatre realm and told he is destined to become the Greatest Musical Star of all time!

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Lost and found images combined through systematic obscuration trigger suggestion and memories in distant locations.

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This drama documentary for cinema explores the pacifism that was such a powerful influence on composer Benjamin Britten’s life and work.
The story begins in 1929 at Gresham’s School in Norfolk, England. Our young actors take us into a world where social and political issues are actively addressed and young Ben Britten’s hatred of all things militaristic is formed.
As we explore the music that illustrated that hatred throughout his life, illustrated by new performances and unique observations from experts and friends, we frequently return to dramatic interludes at Gresham’s, which cement the narrative – spoken by legendary actor John Hurt.
The transcendent music of the War Requiem accompanies the climax of the film, before we return to Gresham’s School 2012.

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In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after he breaks parole, agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's daughter, Cosette. The fateful decision changes their lives forever.

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Set in present day London, Love Towmorrow is the story of an ex-ballet dancer whose life is turned upside down after receiving devastating news about her fiancé Dominic.
Wandering the underground in a torment of pain and anger, a chance encounter with a charismatic Cuban ballet dancer, Oriel offers a temporary distraction. Oriel overlooks her engagement ring and suggests she spends some time with him.
Why she follows this insistent stranger is unclear, and why he tolerates her reserve, mood swings and outright hostility is also unclear. But as the night lengthens, the frustrations, secrets and wounds of their lives begin to emerge and a fragile friendship promises to turn into something more profound as they face the most serious dilemmas of their lives. 

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Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped the nation and the world beyond, three young artists or the society they live in?

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A comedic drama about a grumpy pensioner who is persuaded to join an unconventional local choir run by a young music teacher.

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Zagreus is a film about the psychic wound at the heart of the modern world we live in, a wounding that has detached us from the primal energies that were our lifeblood at the dawning of civilization, in exchange for a devotion to the dual hegemony of logic and technology.

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A flickering dance of intriguing imagery brings to light the possibilities of ordinary movements from the everyday which appear, evolve and freeze before your eyes. Made entirely from archive photographs and footage from the earliest days of moving image, All This Can Happen (2012) follows the footsteps of the protagonist from the short story ‘The Walk’ by Robert Walser. Juxtapositions, different speeds and split frame techniques convey the walker’s state of mind as he encounters a world of hilarity, despair and ceaseless variety.

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Nevada is the psychological portrait of two lovers who've grown to hate one another. Drawing inspiration from aspects of Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller’s fated marriage, the film is a contemporary experimental study of the journey between sensitivity and war. Commissioned and featuring music by LAU.

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A love triangle that takes place between an East London rock-roll manager and two of his clients – a French, girl singer on the verge mainstream success and the young, front-man from a local punk-band who’s starting to crash and burn. As the star-crossed lovers tear each other apart, a showcase gig in Shoreditch turns bad, igniting anglo-muslim racial tension – now there’s a riot on Redchurch Street that can only end in blood-fire and redemption.

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Feature documentary. A detailed, true to life, extraction, filmed over four months, of the day to day events... ups, downs and tribulations of a young reggae singer striving to break into the music industry in the U.K. Filmmaker Mark Brown wraps the audience up into the artists emotions revealing the excitement and disappointment that unfold through different stages of Bayo's attempts to make his music heard in the right circles.