LDN 51.5072N 0.1276W examines the influence of the Industrial Revolution via the relics from architecture in London, reflecting the effects technology has had on transforming traditional notions of work, community, and identity.
Official Selection Vienna Shorts 2023
An old lady living lonely and isolated is waiting for her daughter to come over for tea. As the waiting drags on and her loneliness gets more and more intense, plants start sprouting everywhere in her kitchen. At first the old lady is angry at the plants but eventually starts to embrace them and accept them as her new company after her daughter cancels last minute.
What better to do while waiting for a bus than ponder on the clouds in the blue sky above and their place in our lives? The soundtrack is a composition made from a single recording of the poet's voice, and is best heard through headphones.
A found fragment of Alla Nazimove dancing in Salome (1922) was the starting point of this collaboration with dancer Ino Riga. HORSE (SIRENS) looks at the act of storytelling, performance and recalled experience. Ostensibly a pas de deux, it narrates a navigation of the self, the fragmentation of memory and time travel from past and present.
A performer is filmed inside a Life Science Museum wearing a costume created from objects preserved and classified in the collections. Children recite the names of species on the red list whilst a scientist carefully labels specimens. The animated film explores themes of biodiversity and human/non-human life.
Four flatmates share a flat, the Universe is on their laptop. SHAPES is a dark and delirious comedy, a collection of scenes and episodes from a painful everyday life, exploring the idea of sexual repression at the time of social media.
An experimental animated documentary that explores the youth knife crime epidemic in London. Combining a variety of perspectives from those that have been connected to the issue, the film questions the criminal justice system, climate change and capitalism, all of which point to youth knife crime as a symptom of a wider societal problem.
An abstract animated film that features loops of people forming and filling up the screen, eventually resulting in a chaotic cacophonic throng. A tourist struggles to get through the mass.
Official Selection Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2023 - Graduation Films Competition
Based on extensive historical research, the film is narrated by an imagined, enigmatic auteur whose fraught position as both a spy and gay man in the mid–20th century is troubled by sex, secrecy, politics and imperialism.
Emi, a young girl with a stomach upset, enters an enchanting microscopic world inside a zebrafish and aids the defenders of her cells to outwit the invading Shigella bacteria. This magic realist film is based on the real life battle of scientists to find solutions to a global health problem.
FLOWERS is an afro-futuristic fairytale of love, following a ceremony of a mother giving away her son, Adopting references to classic Disney stories from the 1930s-50s, modernising tropes for a coming of age tale, the film reimagines what a black fairy-tale would look and feel like.
