Projects in genres: Experimental

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A Filipino migrant has been living and working in Israel for ten years. Without a residence permit, in a country with very harsh law enforcement, she is only free to move around the house and the garden where she works. She has a special bond with her pet, a tortoise.

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Untitled Composition #1 is a poetic and surreal study of identity, human relations and self analytical on the very subject of cinema and theatre itself as an artform. This is an experiment in minimalism rather than an attempt to entertain.

Two members of a disilllusioned generation, a man and a woman, get together one dark November night to discuss life, love, sex, politics and almost everything in between.

At first she is the more talkative of the pair. Using his silence and reluctance to reveal anything about himself, he gradually manipulates her into taking part of his darker agenda.

As they slowly start revealing their true identity to each other and decide to play Russian roulette, they begin a journey that will change their lives forever.

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Every time she woke up in the arms of other men, she'd have to remember he was dead all over again - the sensual journey of a young widow.

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A no-budget, non-dialogue documentary about a man living and working on an organic farm in Cornwall, England. Filmed towards the end of the two months he spent there, when the isolation and the sometimes harsh weather were making life harder. A portrait of one man and his environment.

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Twenty-one dancers are held by your gaze. Losing contact can be traumatic.

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A Map With Gaps is an account of a journey made by the director's father through Soviet Russia in the early 'seventies, in a van he built and named Supervan.

Utilising a combination of archive audio recordings and still photographs, drama reconstruction and animation, a surreal and comic tale unfolds of 12,000 miles, 14 countries and 26 very peculiar days. Essentially this is a catalogue of minor disasters, a story that demonstrates that fact can indeed be stranger than fiction and sometimes the grey area between the two is the most interesting place to explore, particularly if you forgot to bring a map.

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An old man is unsettled by the re-emergence of an obscure figure from the past whose unwelcome appearance triggers memories of espionage and sudden violence.
Toby Tatum's film Between Two Men explores his relationship to his father - examining an image complicated by layers of fiction and accumulated mysteries.

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A charming and poignant tale following the quest of the rejected Daniella DuPrey's yearning for her parents love. She does whatever it takes only to be pushed aside by her 'brother'.

The family have been forced to live on the streets during the Depression, so her parents decide to create a son and heir (Elroy the Third) in order to fool Grandpa so and inherit his wealth. The happy family does not last long.

Events take a turn as Elroy the Third is crowned a hero in the town, despite this being due to Daniella's hard work. The story becomes a murder mystery with a humorous twist; what goes around, comes around, or does it?
 

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We think of the arctic as a pristine wilderness, and when scientists went to collect breastmilk from Inuit mothers, they were expecting to find the purest milk anywhere on earth. But the levels went off the scale. The milk of the Inuit mothers was loaded with chemicals migrating from the south.

Set in the wilderness of the Canadian Arctic, Invisible tells the story of how man-made chemicals are building up in our bodies and being passed from mother to child in the womb and through breastfeeding.

It is thought that these hormone disrupting chemicals are causing havoc with the reproductive systems, neurological health and immune systems of animals and humans across the planet.

Today scientists cannot find a single woman anywhere in the world who does not have chemicals such as flame retardants in her breast milk.

In this beautiful and thought-provoking film, artist and film maker Roz Mortimer takes us on a hypnotic journey to the high arctic.

Featuring throatsinging performances from Tagaq, medieval texts and epic scenes of contemporary Inuit life, this film resists conventions of science documentary and questions how we live in the world today.

Filmed entirely on Baffin Island, Nunavut, in the communities of Iqaluit and Qikiqtarjuaq.
 
Website: www.wonder-dog.co.uk/invisible

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Designed as a hospital for well-off patients, the Israel American Medical Center has been going up in Tel Aviv since 1968, but it has never been finished. The architect who designed this building is invited to re-visit his unfinished work and venture into what were to have been huge emergency wards, splendid private rooms for patients and well-equipped physicians' surgeries. The abrasive contrast between desire and reality and between expectations and frustrations is present in this film.

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'in that sleep of death, what dreams may come' (Shakespeare).

Shot in varying live and object stop-frame formats, Jamais Vu depicts an individual's descent into his own madness, capturing the perverse poetry of insanity by using motifs of dream, blackout, amnesia and final annihilation. As we enter the opening dream, we witness the protagonist's (Antonio O) fall into the self-referential world of the Cellar, a place where objects seem to have their own malicious intent. Trapped within the unknown space, Antonio O struggles to hold onto some sense of his own self. He starts to have flashbacks of his forgotten memories which become so vivid that he can not handle any more and as he collapses, he regurgitates all of his memory into a book and breathes his last breath. Ultimately, though, we realise that the Cellar is the main protagonist.

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The setting is the London Underground. The film passes through real places and transforms in and out abstract shapes and forms. The music and the images are presented as equal elements in balance and harmony with each other. The film was created using a unique production process with the director/animator also working as the score composer. The images were designed as a reaction to the music.