Using a mixture of cutting edge generative AI, non-linear collage, dreamlike imagery and and analogue filmmaking techniques, FLESH WISH details the summoning of demonic entities behind the locked doors of a nondescript suburban home in 1970s Britain.
Gori, Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, becomes the backdrop for the intertwined stories of two women from different generations: die-hard Stalinist Nasi and anti-Stalinist Zhana. Both women, scarred by the loss of their fathers to war, grapple with their contradictory interpretations of history.
Their contrasting views expose the absurdities within historical legacies, while the dialectical tensions lead Zhana to confront her adoptive grandmother, Nasi, over her vigorous defiance of the dictator’s memory. It paints a picture of a town in conflict with its own past, holding onto a bygone era, and questioning the very foundations of the cult of Joseph Stalin.
As reality erodes, it exposes the illusory worlds we create for comfort amidst challenging realities.
Official Selection Hot Docs International Documentary Festival 2024 - World premiere
In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, this film is an ode to the sirens of a changing world. Will we hear them in advance? Does an alarm have to be alarming?
Official selection MOMA Doc Fortnight 2024 - World premiere
A poetic response to the archive and oral histories of Tyneside Cinema, an independent cinema in north-east England which has faced many waves of crisis. Through vignettes, SINKHOLE meditates on grand visions and being near to collapse.
A stop motion exploring the negative usage of technology.
Drawing inspiration from the Nakagin Capsule Tower, remote
working and research into the evolutionary effect of technology, this piece of motion presents a future that might be closer than we think.
A dance film that explores the tragic love story of Echo and Narcissus in a contemporary setting. It explores voyeurism and unrequited love in the context of a broken form of communication. Narcissus, unable to see beyond themself and Echo unable to speak to them in her own voice.
Two cities with two women walking in them at night. In one (found footage), light is all that remains. In the other (created in AI), there was never anything else.
In the aftermath of sexual assault, a woman retreats into the garden of her mind. Searching for answers and struggling to do 'the right thing', she realises that she must regain her voice and find new paths to healing, before she and her garden are destroyed completely.
A filmmaker sets out on a journey to discover the mother she never knew.
Official Selection Visions Du Réel 2025 - World premiere
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2025
BAFTA Film Awards 2025 - Nomination - Best British Short Film
We enter the Labyrinth at Richmond Underground station and emerge somewhere very far away. What will we find?
The film is compiled from photographs taken in London and Heraklion. When run together, they start to move...
This film contains flashing images.
The archival kaleidoscope of NOTES: REMEMBERED AND FOUND presents four generations of women - director/artist Maria Anastassiou’s infant daughter is also present in the lm - circling around, approximating, interrupting, and reconguring the origin story of the family’s displacement during the war in Cyprus 1974.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
