A night ‘walk’ tracing the path of the lost Fleet River, through the night time streets of London's Saffron Hill – once the site of a notorious rookery – and the place where Dickens located Fagin’s den in Oliver Twist.
In Dreams is a profound and experimental documentary focusing on the weirdest and most vivid dreams of normal individuals. After numerous interviews, five of the most imaginative and outstanding interviews were selected for the documentary.
Following several tragic events, Jo and Amy attempt to come to terms with their new life as another Christmas in the care system approaches. Using audio interviews with brother and sister, Jo and Amy we listen to their memories as they deal with loss, separation and acceptance.
A psychosexual sci-fi about a planet without speech. The film's narrator, ambiguous in gender and function, weaves us slowly through a mental and physical landscape, observing and chronicling a space beyond words. Based on a dream had by the radical British composer Cornelius Cardew.
Babeldom is a city so massive, and growing at such a speed that soon, it is said, light itself will not escape its gravitational pull. How can two lovers communicate, one from inside the city and one outside? This is an elegy to urban life against the backdrop of a city of the future, a portrait assembled from film shot in modern cities all around the world and collected from the most recent research in science, technology and architecture.
This short film tells the story of Ash, a mixed-race girl from Old Trafford, Manchester, UK. On a youth referral scheme, we see Ash travel to the iconic Salford Lads Club where she takes up boxing as a way of dealing with her troubled past. By portraying Ash’s experience of the sport, the film highlights how the boxing ring can be a neutral space where race and neighborhood politics are left outside.
The film looks at not only Ash’s own experience of racism, but also the preconceptions she and others hold about other people and places.
Clench demonstrates how boxing can become the ultimate visual tool for communication between generations, highlighting that every person has a story to tell regardless of how they look.
On a cold snowy winter day, Musa's parents arrive to persuade him to take him back to his home country. However Musa does not want to go, as he does not want to do military service, which is compulsory.
After Dingil Huseyin's asylum application was rejected, he stayed on as an illegal immigrant. Once he was deported to France, but found his way back to the UK. On his friend's advice he attempts a fake marriage but is cheated and loses the little money he has.
Musa and Huseyin decide to go to Canada for a fresh start. Musa, Huseyin and their friend, Haco - a compulsive storyteller - meet in an old building in a London suburb on a hot summer day. Mehmet, who arranged fake passports for them, rehearses them in answering the basic questions they will be asked at control points.
Early in the morning, Musa, Huseyin and Haco leave the UK for their journey towards a new future.
The morning after the night before
Two flatmates argue at a table, by a door
Repeated scenes, revealing more
Showing the things you never saw
Same River Twice is a psychological, Urban Horror building to a chilling and shocking climax.
Reflecting on colour, the anthropology of noise, our perception of listening, Vivarta alludes to early optical film experiments with sound and visuals, sometimes called 'colour music' and plays with the experience of a persistence of vision.
