From sweeping lines the shape of a dancer is revealed, her movement becomes the focus for converging and diverging patterns and shapes.
Music interweaves these visual elements, unifying them into a vivid impression of sensuality and movement.
In August 2005, inspired by Harry Smith's anthology of American Folk Music, London DJ Alex Reuben set out alone on the American Road, fulfilling a lifelong dream to document the social dance of southern USA. His childhood inspiration to dance had been the music of New Orleans and Fats Domino. Reuben traveled from North Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee and onto Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina halted his journey towards Fats, and Louisiana. The result is a dance road movie that gives insights into lesser-known forms of American dance and music culture and the lives of extraordinary Americans. Set against the US federal governments' woeful response to the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, at a time when Americans were questioning their position on the war in Iraq, we explore Appalachian Clogging, Hip-Hop, Stepping, Mamphis Marching Bands, Mississippi Fife and Drum, Cajun and Zydeco.
A Capture commission for Arts Council England.
It ain't East Coast. It ain't West Coast. This is South Coast.
Forget the MTV-sponsored images of ghetto superstars and bling - South Coast is a quintessentially British take on hip hop 30 years after it emerged from the Bronx block parties. Three years in the making; this character-driven documentary features a host of engaging characters including Norman Cook (aka Fat Boy Slim), notorious Train Painter, Aroe and irrepressible MC, Buzz; break-dancers on Brighton's pebbled beach; Brighton's first gay rap crew, grimy MCs in word battles with poets; graffiti art galleries, and laid back but incisive rhymes about British seaside life.
Abstract short animation. Based on subliminal rhythms, derived from the conflict and discord of corporate imposition, depicted through Visual and musical orchestration.
The musical score becomes a complex visual evolving abstraction, reflecting the emotive energy and primeval drive of the music. Utilising hand drawn animation, 2D and 3D computer graphics, painting and video.
One of the world’s best-loved operas, in the hands of director Kenneth Branagh and librettist Stephen Fry, The Magic Flute will be a cinematic experience both epic in scale and visionary in its interpretation. On the eve of the first global war a magical drama unfolds as Tamino sets forth on a perilous journey in pursuit of love, light and peace in a world afflicted by darkness, death and destruction.
In the summer of 2004, on a car journey in Eastern Europe, Pavla Fleischer met and fell in love with Eugene Hutz, lead singer of New York's Gypsy Punk band Gogol Bordello. Captivated by his energy and his musical verve, and desperate to get to know him better, she decided to make a film about him.
The Pied Piper of Hutzovina follows Eugene and Pavla on their subsequent road trip through Eugene's home country, Ukraine.
It is the story of two people traveling together on two very different courses. Her aim is to rediscover a forgotten romance; his is to rediscover his roots. She hopes to find love on the road; he hopes to find musical inspiration from the gypsy culture he is determined to preserve. This is an intimate portrait of a filmmaker with a passion for
her subject, and a punk musician with a longing to revisit his past. Theirs is a journey which tests their relationship and challenges their perceptions of the music they both love.
There Will Be Something Later explores the dreams, obsessions and disfunctional relationships of seven characters. Some are friends, some family, some, neighbours. Some hold secret feelings of love or compassion for one another and all of them want to win the local talent contest.
On a Friday night in London, Alec, an enigmatic homeless man, sits across the street from a black-tie party at a posh hotel. A chance occurrence gives Alec the opportunity to enter this high society gathering, where the layers of his personality and his past are revealed to an unsuspecting audience.
A walking/musical journey into the heart of the environmental crisis.
This documentary traces the footsteps of folk band Nimomashtic as they walk 900 miles around the UK , quite literally from gig to gig in their bid to inspire others to make a difference in their everyday lifes to help the environment.
