Projects in genres: Experimental

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One man's reflections on the last days of a dying relative.

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Francis is an account of the creation of a 9-year-old 'defective' animated character. As the draughtsman’s hand goes to work and Francis attains animated consciousness, his behaviour is observed and assessed by a child psychologist. The boy’s responses – initially slow and apparently flawed – develop in unusual comic directions as the examination progresses. As his vocalisations begin to address the nature of his animated world and the psychologist continues to try and interpret his actions, it appears that Francis may ‘break out’ once and for all and become a ‘real’ animated character. Francis playfully addresses notions of construction and the role that language plays in interpreting, classifying and creating certain types. In an animated world populated by impressionable idiot figures, mischief-makers and oddballs with strange vocal mannerisms, Francis puts the cute but simple cartoon character into therapy for a case study of 'animated behaviour'.

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The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries. All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries. Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent 'whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons. Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?

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Operator number 239674 processes identities for the Department of Information and Awareness, until a random glitch in the system plunges him into a menacing and seductive virtual reality. Can he recover his identity in this hallucinatory, fairy tale world of endless choices and fully automated bureaucracy?

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A pianist's art - and life - fall out of balance. Memory, trauma and creativity. Triple-flashback visual poem to music, without dialogue.

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Attacked on all sides by monsters of his own making, the film records the attempts of the protagonist to get to sleep.

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Artificial Worlds is the end of the world in a short film. Apocalyptic and nihilstic it shows the world in freefall. Focussing on a group of eight anonymous souls we witness their last ditch efforts to survive.

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The village of Beshencevo in Central Russia lying beside Nizhni Novogorod and the Volga entertains a camera crew in the home of the Chiline family who have lived in the village. The family have lived through the Soviet past and are reluctantly entering the new prosperity of Russia. They argue and talk, live out their personal dramas and determinedly continue with their ancient way of life through the coldest months of Winter.

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Using a dynamic mix of music, sound, poetry live action and animatd SFX this film celebrates the 'joys of loving one another only briefly'. The film takes the viewer on a lyrical and poetic journey through which we share the affectionate and passionate memories of a gay mans sexual encounters in a, now derelict, Kennington victorian toilet.

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Bro 9 a quietly disturbing film unveiling a portrait of an inner city black urban male struggling to understand the emotional consequences of the childhood loss of his father. Bro 9 explores the complex psychology of Scally as his personality disorder takes a startling grip on his reality and perception of the world.

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A story of love, death, and resurrection... The dead car - discarded, dumped and crushed - is toxic waste manifested in burning tyre mountains and landfill until the European Union takes action. The spirit of the car lives on.