Projects in genres: Experimental

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The Age of Stupid is the new film from director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, looking at 'old' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?
 

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A radioactive object sets off a novel unreeling of events amongst some pond life. A unique marriage of sound and vision this idiosyncratic film presents its imagery in the manner of a musical arrangement with cyclical visual devices that repeat and distort.

The irregular sequence of events is both dark and vibrant within a film that is at once experimental and accessible.

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Vicki spent 4 months with 'access all areas' to the BBC’s million strong archive. This tells the story, through layers of A/V collage, of how the artist can bring about positive change in culture. The film portrays the playfulness of the artist/director, moving images, scenery and context with surprising results.

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This triptych film uses archive industrial and documentary footage to follow the endless chug of the conveyer belt of life. Images of production lines, factories, and educational and creative industries, are sandwiched to illustrate the endless whirr of activity in our pursuit of meaning and happiness.

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With the weather increasingly at the forefront of our news and media together with the idea that someone somewhere has their hand on the volume knob, End of the Street takes the original 19th Century Beaufort Wind Force scale and conjures a response, incrementally turning up the strangeness.

Poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan produced the poetry specially. His interpretation of the wind scale transposes the action into the familiar surroundings of an average street. Imagemaker Andy Martin produces a mix of animated graphics, 3D, live action, photography and typographics all underpinned with a bespoke score by composer Robert Worby.

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Performance film, The Challenge night show. With live acts, dance, live music, jamming and more.

Filmed at the Masonic Hall, Hastings/St Leonards, East Sussex

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An experimental essay film that contrasts two separate murder scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and Mary Harron's "American Psycho" in order to make a statement about film censorship.

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Filmed at the Demilitarized Zone on the border between North and South Korea, the work 38TH PARALLEL seeks to portray the particular reality of this contested site. It is a reality marked by an eerie sense of latency. Constantly alert, constantly inert, North and South face each other in a stalemate situation sealed by a cease-fire agreement 55 years ago. In her video, Davies operates in this void.

Working with the United Nations Armistice Commission and the United States Armed Forces in Korea, she shows how political reality manifests itself here, beyond representation, in the ways how space is structured and time is regimented in this militarized environment. Facing each other across the turnpike, for instance, border guards of both sides execute the silent ceremonies of authority proscribed by their military protocol. It’s choreography of empty gestures enacted on the stage of a deserted strip of land and bleak interrogation rooms.

Davies then shows the local epicentre of conflict of global proportions to be a non-place where power manifests itself in ghostly acts of decorum performed in suspended time.

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A bee gets in the way of a rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight Of The Bumblebee.

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A live action documentary experimental film shot edited and perforned by Hastings (East Sussex) artists including the director Barbara Parise aka Lady Plush and Cosmic Bird official multidisciplinary artist.

An avalanche of intrepid performances live music, dance and live acts!

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Language and property crumble in an exploration of the impact of coastal erosion on the people and landscape of North Norfolk. Concentrating on the small villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, the film combines interviews, field recordings and archive footage.

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In a Palestinian refugee camp a class of five-year-olds discuss their lives and the future whilst the camera floats from the centre of Beirut to the Israeli border; this is a reverse journey for the audience as they begin where the displaced Palestinians flight ended, and they end where the Palestinians began, in the occupied territories.