Projects in genres: Experimental

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An experimental short that follows the narrator's reflections on modern-day parallels with history.

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In Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus, a display of nationalism is taken to its logical conclusion. Moving between macro and micro perspectives, Flag Mountain sets dramatic spectacle against everyday life as the inhabitants of both sides of the city go about their daily business.

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'Let us say that a fly has fallen into a spiderweb and the spider has sucked her dry. This is a fact of the universe and such a fact cannot be forgotten. If such a fact should be forgotten, it would create a blemish in the universe. Do you understand me or not?' - I B Singer.

For the last 800 years many monks, nuns and prisoners dreamed of escaping the Abbey.

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Game Keepers Without Game is a film set within the structure of a feature length melodrama. Formally based on the Spanish dramatist Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Play La Vida es Suena (Life is a Dream), it follows the narrative of the return of a child who had been banished from the family home. Translated into contemporary British life, the film is comprised of a mixture of acted scenes where nothing and nobody touches each other. Still shots of objects become characters and a drumming sound track builds up and breaks down like the building of a house.

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In 'Getting Ready' we watch a faded icon of stage and screen backstage as she prepares for the greatest performance of her life - a star-studded suicide.

Captured on sumptuous super 8 film and evoking the spirit of old Hollywood, this vintage-style short premiered at the London Independent Film Festival.

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A contemplative, static study of an unlikely landmark in an unlikely place. Normally only glimpsed in passing, Stott Hall Farm, a cottage built in 1737, floats islandlike in the middle if the M62 in West Yorkshire, whilst cars and lorries thunder past on both sides. Despite the farm seemingly being a monument to stubbornness, the urban myth being that the farmer refused to leave when the motorway was built in the 1970s, the truth of the story is that the east- and westbound carriageways could not meet due to the lie of the land, and the motorway had to be parted around the cottage to avoid landslips.

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Jack wakes after a heavy night, only to find that his breakfast is plotting against him.

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A modern-day city-symphony, the film presents an abstract journey over Hungerford Bridge and the footbridges alongside it.

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Intimate Game is a stop-frame animation short depicting a narrow and suffocating life routine between a mother and her daughter living together in the same house. This relation engenders severe consequences.

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"One more person who we laugh about in the street when she is speaking alone. In nowhere, and not in a special date, she is working. Twenty four hours in a day. A thousand , four hundred and forty minutes .And it is enough one wrong second to pull our trigger. "

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Laitue is a hand drawn film, tracing a brief journey from loss to a reunion of an unexpected kind. Two people are separated by time and space but nevertheless coincide in a series of movements which form a choreography of anticipation and unrest.

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Two men strike a deal that reveals to be something altogether more sinister. Man Made is a dark and ominous short that addresses the issue of gender and power.