Projects in genres: Experimental

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Chupoo, who lives in a tree on a lonely floating elephant, is habitually woken each morning by a cheeky sausage. After this startling start to the day Chupoo spends the rest of it causing havoc and destruction wherever he goes. Through the chaos the resident creatures pull together using a specially designed mechanism to bring Chupoo his morning shower. As soon as his shower is over trained bats fly the sleeping Chupoo back up his tree to bed, only to see the rigmarole start all over again the very next morning.

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The film is structured on a twenty shot sequence of a room that is repeated three times. The first two sequences are in colour, and are shot according to a strict formal plan. Each shot contains a portion of the point of view of its adjacent partners. The second two sequences are in black and white and are more freely structured, even though they follow the spatial-formal pattern established in the first sequence. The only movement in the film is accidental – clouds seen through a window- otherwise nothing moves and there is no sound.

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Rabbit Stories is a study of mental illness - a portrait of a young schizophrenic man called Fenton Fuller.

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Runner takes its audience as close as possible to the mental and physical experience of running a marathon through sound and the moving image. Using material from the 'Great North Run' in England and combining this with specially shot sequences of a single runner, it follows the journey of a man, one soul in the flood of 50,000.

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A very short meditation on the street as canvas.

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I'm not aware of you taking my skin, says the artist's mother to the camera as it zooms in on her eye as close as the lens will allow. Taking My Skin tracks a dialogue between the artist and her mother. Their exchange ranges from narrating the filming process 'in the moment' to relations in an earlier time - 'how long do you think it takes for a child to become separate?' Throughout the journey film spaces continuously dissolve and collapse only to separate again. Sometimes the artist is behind the camera, sometimes the mother, sometimes both simultaneously behind and in front, or neither. Both perform, film, and alternately instruct, position and direct the other. Formally and thematically, the film is an exploration of closeness, of synching, and the threat this poses to the self.

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This documentary is a Trojan horse; strikingly using richly layered animation to smuggle through the audience’s compassion fatigue a story of two Ugandan women affected by HIV/AIDS. The Beloved Ones has a distinctive visual style, lyrical and impressionistic. This lends itself to the depiction of an Africa that despite its problems is a home to full lives, not just a series of tragic statistics.

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Two writers, tired and stressed, attempt to meet a very tight deadline. Their task - to write the next hot script. Their problem - they are quickly running out of time. The desperate men jump between genre and style, plots and character arcs, as they struggle to find that elusive idea. As paper and time begin to run out, so too do the few ideas that they have. Will they meet that deadline or will they crack?

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In the woods behind the trees a world of death awaits. Years ago, nine people went missing and were never seen again. Then the woods were closed, but on the eve of their re-opening the police throw open the gates and let people in, not able to fortell the consequences: death for the people who enter the woods.

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A hard drinking, burnt out theatre actor sits alone watching his penultimate performance over and over on video. Before too long we see that at the peak of this performance a bottle has flown from the darkness striking him in the head, his frustration builds as he struggles over that question which has plagued him over the last year. That is until a random encounter with a hole in the fabric of space and time.  

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A burnt out theatre actor watches his penultimate performance over and over on video forever agonising over the cause of his downfall. That is untill an encounter with a hole in the fabric of space and time.

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The actor plays the writer experimenting/pontificating the different uses for 8mls of ink. If life is only 8mls - what will you do with yours? A visual post modern treat made on one roll of super8, editing in camera, the audio made independently of seeing the exposed film.