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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A magical trip into the English countryside, where a lost soul is helped to find his way home by a friendly snail. Featuring Aidan Gillen (The Wire/Game of Thrones) and the voice of legendary folk singer Shirley Collins, as well as a soundtrack by cult Icelandic rockers Sigur Ros.
Part of Valtari Mystery Film Experiment
Enter Earth – become trapped in endless cycles of creation and destruction. Then look up and rise to the sun as everything turns to dust below. Then cycle begins again. Explores intimate macro terrains in a dialogue with the contractions and expansions in Fjögur Píanó.
A short film featuring the track Oh Jackie by singer/ songwriter Louise Quinn & French electronic artist Kid Loco. Set backstage in a 1920's musichall & shot at Cumbernauld theatre. The singer gets ready to take the stage but never quite gets there....
3 Continents, 4 barbers, 1 story... The Fade is an intimate portrait of four barbers across the world over a week in their lives. The observational documentary reveals a portrait of their lives and shines a light on the profession barbering. Set in Ghana,Jamaica, USA and the UK the film interweaves their stories and examines the polarized opposites of the locations. Creating an international dialog of the colorful lives of four men who do they same thing in different time zones, with very different realities.
Set in war torn Europe of the 1940s, ‘Dancing in the Ashes’ follows the story of Edina, a young Jewish ballerina who must battle against segregation, separation and inhumanity, when she is snatched from her home and sent to a Nazi concentration camp.
Grandmother is a Crab borrows from an earlier digital video, made fifteen years ago, that itself used footage captured from a travel advertisement on television. Black and white, and mirror effects, take the image out of time, giving it both vividness and distance. The music is played in reverse. And the voice-over and under-titles are a poem that re-enters the magic world of a child on a beach.
