Projects in genres: Experimental

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Transfeminine 'freak-show' performer Mona Guyard has built a cult audience in Europe. We follow Mona from a rural childhood, through her discovery of drag and freakshow, to the development and premiere of an astonishing new performance.
A visceral and beautiful exploration of pain, healing and transformation in the queer community.

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Co-created by the a group autistic directors, the Neurocultures Collective, (Sam Chown-Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy Walker) and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, THE STIMMING POOL is a hybrid film that enters the possibilities of a world informed by neurodiverse perspectives. The film reflects a spectrum of autistic experience, and it’s drifting form is built around the concept of an autistic camera, whose curiosity discovers a relay of subjects who stray through the world, revealing environments often hostile to autistic experience - such as a hectic workplace and a crowded pub - and quiet spaces that offer respite from them. Each character exists in an apparently separate world. Some are concealing being autistic and dealing with feelings of isolation, others thrive in the communities around them. But gradually we come to realise they have a shared objective: to find a place uninhibited by the tests and restrictions of normative society: this is the Stimming Pool.
Official selection CPH:DOX 2024 Special Premieres - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024

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A daring deepfake short that follows Sean Connery's unravelling after he witnesses Marilyn Monroe's return from the dead. The film raises compelling questions about truth and power, and satirises some of the more histrionic narratives pushed by the media regarding deepfakes and their contribution to the 'decline of truth'.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2024

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An experimental short film that delves into the archival and historical footage of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, depicting a symbolic narrative surrounding the ritualistic act of animal sacrifice, known as 'Besmel'. It serves as an allegorical representation of a nation's sacrifice amidst the backdrop of political transformations.

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A short experimental film comprising of three stereoscopic experiments, with accompanying experimental soundtracks.
The film continues the artist filmmaker's phenomenological investigation into the perceived soul-giving properties of animation, stereoscopy, and analogue materials.
Official Selection Busan Short Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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If the Pennines are the backbone of England, the Helm Wind is the shiver that runs down the spine.
An embodied investigation into Britain's only named wind - The Helm - WHEN THE CROWS WALKS HOME takes the viewer on an immersive journey with (and by) the Helm Wind.

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La signora Aetna, (Etna), is bored and boredom can be a dangerous thing for those around you when you are a volcanic goddess.

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Two women, one from the African Diaspora, the other from the East Asian Diaspora, recall the risk, and fearless endeavour made on their behalf. A story of self-sacrifice, self-awakening, and self-expression. They embarked on treacherous journeys across precarious seas, unified in a desire to be all that they can dream.

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All our heads have a moving collage in them of impressions and appropriations.
In LAST YEAR IN WISBORG, clips from F.W. Murnau's 1922 film NOSFERATU mix with colour film of a blue sky, a painting by the filmmaker and his own hand. The undead remember before and after their death. This double nostalgia of the Count's existence is felt in the meditative soundtrack.

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Cinema history is scoured for hidden depths in this improvised experiment in perception, presented in stereoscopic 3D.

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The banana is the world's most eaten fruit but it is at risk of extinction. Composer and sound-artist-turned-director Matthew Herbert attaches a microphone to a banana in the Dominican Republic and records what it hears on the way to the UK.

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A high concept music video exploring time, reality and memory through the mind of a Victorian author stranded between two periods and two realities in the heart of London.
'The Panharmonion Chronicles' is also a graphic novel written by the director Henry Chebaane.