Two Eritrean girls enchant with fragmentary tales of escaping their country, telling us what it feels like living as an unaccompanied child refugee, alone in London.
An intimate portrait, highlighting the emotional fallout of political conflict commissioned as part of London Borough of Islington's 'Kick Islamophobia' campaign.
A writer returns, disillusioned, to London and Paris. He begins on a story: a sleeper cell of young, glamorous urban terrorists. Gabriella, glamorous trophy wife of a young king-in-exile, holed up in an opulent London riverside penthouse, falls under the spell of a modern-day Che Guevara and, Patty Hearst-style, enlists in The Cause. She is sent to Paris under the 'front' of a drama student aiming at film. She takes her studies exceptionally seriously: encounters Bernard Stiegler, the leading philosopher on the subject of cinema and the human condition, and other luminaries. And she meets fellow-"student" activists, half-sister and -brother Julia and Sam, skilled actors who seem more interested in petty crime and scams. Their father is a political prisoner held in London; is he the master-mind? Has he been grooming them since childhood?
Our writer adopts the persona of a sleuth as he follows these anti-heroes. Books are passed, stolen: do they bear coded messages? Why is Gabriella obsessed with capturing her interviews on an outdated Nagra tape-recorder? What is their connection with the incipient terrorism on the city streets?
So our writer/sleuth uncovers events; but is he documenting actuality, or inventing a fiction?
Through the use of a secret camera, an out-of-work actor tries to uncover the reasons behind his failing career and takes on an experiment to find out if it is possible to control how others perceive him. Borges and I is a facetious commentary on the relentless recording and sharing of our lives in the wake of the user-generated-content generation.
An erotic drama that follows Manchester and Noon as they enjoy a long, hot, summer of love, living in a garage on waste-ground in post industrial Britain.
Noon is our narrator, a shy taxidermist who keeps a silent menagerie in the freezer alongside Manchester’s ice pops.
Manchester documents their affair. He rejects lighting, the planning of images or choreography in his photography, creating wonderfully charged images with just a couple of cheap, instamatic cameras.
When Franny, a wealthy pornographer, launches Manchester on an unsuspecting art world, his success destroys the beauty of their once idyllic life. He loses almost everything and only just wins back the one thing he loves, Noon.
By the Grace of God depicts the world of Jürgen, a tormented provocateur without a past or background, whose delusions of grandeur lead him to England in search of his place in history and his sovereign right to the throne.
A tapestry of feelings and ideas reveals a man who is simultaneously illuminated and tragic, who lives in the cracks of reality.
Cangleska Wakan discusses the 'sacred hoop' of the Sioux Lakota with discussions from powerful and respected contributors on Indian reservations in South Dakota.
Caught on camera is a web 2.0 experiment. Mobile phone footage of a carjacking in london is posted on video blogging website seesmic.com. From this moment the director gives up control. The explosive footage sparks comments from over 50 people from around the world. The evolution of the resulting conversation is captured in this short experimental film.
Menace and melancholia as layered textures explore complex histories. Space, sound, colour, stone and paper mutate.
Differing intimacies to a cinema which has sat as a ruin for over twenty years, is due for demolition and was once a thriving cinema scene are evoked by the voices of three characters.
The reversal of film and commentary offers a solution to making a (more) truthful film. But the deconstruction of the filmmaking process also reveals the limitations of the film form to convey meaning comprehensively.
Ex Stasis is a short film based on the recount from an unknown source of a traumatic memory told through fragmented image and text. The film is framed within the confines of a domestic interior, revealed through motion, progressive frames and broken text to tell this dark narrative of an external threat that invades the home of a couple and their cats.
The story is constructed in monochromatic and colour images, producing a foreboding domestic interior of disaccord, frightened cats and human panic.
A man finds himself trapped in a labyrinth of alleyways and must navigate his way to freedom. He is accosted by strange and terrifying figures. A young heroine steps in and saves him from a Cyclops, and a large ball like object chases them along a post apocalyptic tale of being lost in time and space.
