Projects in genres: Music

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In South East London four young women reflect upon the reasons they love jazz. Their musings give insight into a life of jazz inspired journeys. The short paints an intimate portrait of the young women. Ty the music producer said the girls inspired him about music.

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Oil City Confidential is a film noir feature length documentary and about Dr Feelgood; it's the story of four men in cheap suits who crashed out of Canvey Island in the early '70s, sandpapered the face of rock’n’roll and left all that came before a burnt-out ruin, four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten's anti-Christ.

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Animated music video to "Stay In My Memory" by Bim (www.bimmusic.com). A magical story where a girl ventures through a pop up book in search of her lost love/memories of her lost love.

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Don Letts is an unsung hero of British music. Told in Letts' unique voice, Superstonic Sound is a documentary about his family legacy that mirrors the history of Bass in the UK and his fighting for identity being the first generation of British born Black. A journey from Dub and Reggae to the legendary very first Punk club 'The Roxy' in the mid-seventies, crossing Hip Hop towards Dubstep; a musical, cultural and personal travel between past and present.

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This five piece glam-rock band go on a UK tour for one week gigging every night until they give up and cancel half way through. This is a comical 'behind the scenes' look at a journey of hopes and dreams smashed by reality. Musicians bonding and ultimately falling out all in one week of rock n roll.

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1989 in the UK saw the birth of a new youth culture. Driven by a media hate campaign, the British Government acted against it by funding a special Police Unit, whose sole purpose was to crush it. They Call it Acid is the definitive document of the Acid House era.

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Ted Matthews keeps finding objects that were lost on the street. It is actually the objects that find him. Ted stopped looking for things long before he started to sleep with his violin. Ted's music tells the story of every object found. All imaginary tales like his own imaginary life.

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Ben spends his time listening to his Dad's old 70's vinyl and making mixtapes on an old double deck tape recorder. He makes a tape to try and woo the girl next door, Lily, the girl of his dreams.

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A home-made Super-8 musical. Over an all-day drinking session, the dreams of a troubled romantic and his companions are worn away by ennui and isolation. With songs by Aidan Smith.

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Shot in Iceland from a gyro-stabilised rig on a helicopter, and on the ground using a high speed Phantom camera, this film attracted the interest of David Lynch's producer Joni Sighvatsson and Francis Coppola's producer Fred Fuchs and became the inspiration for Clemo's Breath and First Breath projects, currently in development.

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Bespectacled cardigan-wearer Stevie endures a job he despises and can’t get a girlfriend, but at least he has music. With his mate Neil, he’s been kicking about in bands for a while, but it is not until the pair team up with Billy, a more experienced hand with drive and ambition, and Billy’s cute pal Emily that the possibility they might be on to something good suggests itself. With a demo to tout, Stevie beats a well-trodden path to record company doors, but finds he has to manage the tensions developing within the band while keeping his own aspirations in check.

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In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, alternative music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist. This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats and over the history of ATP, to capture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe.