Projects in genres: Experimental

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Filler brings together children's fairy tales, TV, soap dramas and news reports to tell the story of a missing child. The video explores the cultural shifts that occur from the way these stories are reported - how notions of celebrity, voyeurism and reality are blurring private emotion with public spectacle.

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Flight is an experimental digital video work which explores, celebrates and questions our relationship with flying through a series of oneiric images, sounds and text. Structured around an  imaginary plane journey Flight highlights the processes of realisation, observation and memory: a cinema of gestures, suspension and transience. In Flight, the collision of speed and stillness, comfort and danger, beauty and potential horror provide a unique passage into the unchartered territories of our mind.

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A woman is travelling on a tram when she sees an electronic sign which gets her thinking. 'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names', the sign reads.   Has she got any enemies? And if she has, are they really her enemies? And if they are, would she forgive them?   Forgive is a reflective tale about a woman who realises that sometimes what might at first seem negative, in reality, might not be.

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Short experimental drama that follows a journey of transformation by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) who wore a series of orthopaedic corsets because of impairment. The film draws on Kahlo's own words and bold painting style. It refutes the picture of Kahlo's life as one of tragedy and suffering.

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A doc-drama following a day in the life of two homeless girls. The film looks at how we view that which we see everyday, those dispossessed of a home, yet questions how we use that information.

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A young girl walks to the sea's edge, railing and crying against the elements, throwing herself into the sea only to be expelled onto the cold harsh shore.   Invisible looks at living with anexoria from a personal point of view.

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Another day in the office. Encounters with an angel. A film of hidden hopes and dreams.

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In 1904 the Elan Valley, in Wales, was flooded to create reservoirs for Birminghams's water supply. Many buildings were destroyed and over a hundred people were displaced. Keepsake uses original footage, archive maps, stills and domestic objects; the waters of the reservoir are 'drained' to reveal what was lost.

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A collaboration with poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan reflecting on his recent trip to Russia - a short visual poem. A combination of studio set photography, animation and motion graphics illuminate this thoughtful meditation on the notions of travel and identity.

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Gilly Booth's film One Dau Trois (123) uses three languages, two countries and two principal actors to etch out a story of passion, control, power and indifference. It draws from styles and techniques of French avant-garde cinema. It thieves Godard's directorial devices (ad hoc dialogue, actors responding through ear-phone to director's questions) to construct a "documentary" love-story based less on Godard's claim that artifice lead to truth than the idea that artifice follows its own law. The characters have it tough: A and B can barely cope with their lines, and with the insistent interference of the camera, the director and the films stylistic pretensions. They try to act cool, and discuss serious topics (only to be inundated by graphics spouting French poststructuralism and an anarchist discussing her hairdresser). Caught in the purgatory of multiple digital video and 35mm endings, the enigma of the film is cruelly withheld - unless one is versed in semaphore.

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By 2050, lifestyle is designed by the Corporate State. Unhealthy food, obesity, famine and war are illegal.   Martin Dwyer, a mid-level executive, reports to the Head Office for a routine review. Instead, he is invited up to the top floor, the Executive Floor.

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After an unnatural death comes an unnatural burial and a reluctant witness who is slowly losing his mind as he finds a parallel between the correct ways of disposing of a body and the improper. What happens when somebody dies in suspicious circumstances?  PANINO is a psychological thriller which guides between what is a moral procedure and what is criminally insane. Directed by Richard Lawson, the central theme of the film is how one mentally copes with death. PANINO is a psychological thriller following the broken thoughts and accounts of a man under police questioning who losses his ability to distinguish between the real and the imagined world.