An autobiographical documentary, a fiction that's also an essay and an extended poetic meditation on the ability of the image to represent experience.
Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, shot first in 1988 and then again in 2008, and culminating at the haunting expanse of Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world.
In a Perfect World what would you wish for?
A 12 minute film poem using the visual theme of a wishing tree, created from the surreal and lyrical answers given by the students of Centre Academy Special School, London.
Planeat is a provocative challenge to our love of meat and dairy. Tracking a group of scientists, the film forces us to confront the evidence that a heavily animal-based diet is bad for our health, environment and future of the planet. However, with the help of some innovative chefs, these problems can be solved.
Post is written, directed and produced by London based filmmaker Giada Dobrzenska.
Post delves into a writer and artists complex and fractured spirit and mind, when a young woman starts receiving anonymous fanmail.
Written and made in response to Nick Bantock's visual novel 'Griffin and Sabine' Post is a psychological response to Bantock's work- reading into what his stories suggest but dont spell out.
Post is a short experimental film which screened at the raindance film festival in 1999 and the portobello film festival in 2000.
Post is an experimental sound/visual narrative short.
Shot in the run up to the 2008 Olympics, this documentary follows Aifeng, a young sex worker in a Beijing massage parlour. Like many migrant workers in modern China she is struggling to support her family back home. When she suddenly loses her job, Aifeng faces her biggest challenge yet.
Two twins who look a lot like each other decided to see who was best at being a ringmaster.
Surreal constructions of movements, captured on Super 8 depicting a competitive, vicious streak of a female.
An exploration of coded choreography, the female form re-telling the male domain of a ringmaster.
When a teenage girl is forced to visit her grandfather she must make a stark choice: his dignity or her own? Saltmark is a touching story about a young girl and her grandfather.
In the jungles of Borneo, an Iban father on the cusp of old age begins a river journey to seek medical help for his sick child. Along the way, the boy is troubled by recurring visions of a strange figure who appears on the river bank. As the journey progresses, father and son are drawn inexorably to a final encounter with the mythical 'transformed' shaman who dwells deep inside the jungle.
Semangat was made by working closely with one Iban longhouse community from Sarawak, Malaysia with whom the story was devised and filmed. Set in the jungles of Borneo, the basis of the film explores the conflict that exists between ancient animist beliefs and modern approaches to illness. The main protagonists of the film are a real father and son, and a retired shaman from this community.
Semangat is a micro-budget hybrid docu-fiction film funded by The Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, The UK Film Council/CTBF John Brabourne Award and Screen South. It has been produced under the creative guidance of award winning filmmaker, Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love). It has been co-produced with The National Film and Television School.
A fast-paced documentary populated by a charismatic and often surreal cast of characters, Shot in Bombay goes beyond the tinselly glamour of 'Bollywood' to explore the industry's darker sides. With unprecedented access to a star-studded Bombay gangster movie, the film reveals an edgy metropolis, where fiction regularly blurs into reality.
A cochlea implant is a surgically implanted electronic device which can make it possible for the profoundly deaf to hear sound. However, the use of cochlea implants is controversial. Two families both with deaf children, one has decided to have an implant for their son, the other has not, Why?
Stanley never goes outside. He likes to play with his clockwork toys and every night his mother kisses him goodnight.
Stanley is twenty.
The trouble is that Stanley thinks this is all quite normal, until an encounter with a mysterious girl turns his world upside down.
Star Games is a visual narrative of a surreal galactic ballet that explains the origins of stars. The inhabitants of a futuristic metropolis train in their hundreds to contest in the Star Games. Patrolling zeppelins select individual gymnasts with a UFO-styled light beam. The gymnasts are pulled up towards the sky to perform a beautifully organic ballet before they dissolve into starlights.
The film’s emotive meaning is that each star symbolizes a past human life. Its message is that human beings are never alone but embedded, just like stars, in a community of others celebrating life with each other.
