Projects in genres: Sci-Fi

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A young woman grows body parts in her garden; an occupation that becomes stranger when she realises there is something peculiar lurking beneath the soil.

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In a steampunk future, the life of a pampered gentleman is seamlessly automated by machines, but his orderly existence is thrown into chaos when he chooses to pursue a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.

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Toby, a once idealistic young film student who has turned into an arrogant publicist, libidinous and jaded, comes across a copy of his old student film based on 'Don Quixote'. He is horrified by the terrible effects the film has had on the quiet village where it was set. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival - Official Selection - Closing Film - World premiere

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Focusing on how grief impacts our perception of reality, and how we tend to hold on tight to dreams that will never come true.

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Marta and Juan travel to Iraq to uncover the secrets of an abandoned cigarette factory.

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A dark, silent fairytale about a young girl who loves birds, and the very strange thing that happens when she tries to protect a wounded crow from the boys in her village.

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Three intertwining stories explore the effects of mnemophrenia, a new condition arising from the use of advanced Virtual Reality (VR) films, causing the involuntary blending of real and artificial memories, creating an identity crisis. The three main characters, Jeanette, Nicholas and Robyin live in different time periods, all set in the future. They are connected in three ways: by blood; by the condition itself, since they are all mnemophrenics; and by their shared interest in ways that technology affects the human condition.

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Once there was a taxidermist whose collection was his life; and what his life lacked most, he decided, was a Lady. But the Lady in question had other ideas. This campy gothic fairytale hides a sly analogy about how we objectify each other in the post-Tinder world of online dating.

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Nobirds are the “no birds” that sing in Keats’s 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The poem is re-imagined as a computer game where the “knight at arms” and the “belle dame” might win one another if they make the right choices. Real birds as negative images haunt their quest.

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A fairy tale with a magic realist twist, it centres on a mix of emotions and ideas around love, community, isolation and family. Based on a short story, written with the English north-east coast in mind, and in our sometime awful world sets out to be deliberately hopeful.

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Charlie is a zoo-head, addicted to a powerful hallucinogenic with memory crunching side-effects. He is forced by the authorities to enter a radically experimental rehabilitation treatment designed to recover his memories and put his mind back to how it was before he became addicted. The system crashes and he becomes trapped in horrifying memory loops. Haunted by childhood traumas, Charlie’s psyche repeatedly shuts down in defence, only to reboot with increasingly disturbing recurrences. His girlfriend Megan, herself a recovering addict, reveals the depth of her feeling for him and Charlie realises he actually has something precious to live for. But it may be too late as the twists and turns of the extreme visions intensify, potentially destroying his mind for good. Unless the desperate efforts to save him can succeed.

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A bare all Avant-garde homage to silent stag films and pre-code Hollywood.