A near-dead town, an encroaching overgrowth, a mysterious tower, a camera, a voice. Across 299 photographs a man who may be the filmmaker, and yet might not be real, relays a story that may not have happened, about a place that almost definitely exists.
Plants were used in 1970s suburbia to send seductive signals to neighbours, or so rumour has it. What went on behind closed curtains? This hybrid documentary explores the truth in the botanical myth.
A look at sexual signalling, female desire, subcultures, and suburban legend.
Set and filmed at the Royal Pavilion Brighton, this artist film is a postcolonial response to chinoiserie. Historical individuals from Taiwan, China and Britain question, fail to understand, argue and disagree with each other over the representation of Chineseness in chinoiserie in-situ.
AN INTERMISSION is a portrait of contemporary Britain as seen through the eyes of a group of young people experiencing homelessness. For over a year and a half, they worked collaboratively with artist Edwin Mingard to make a film to express their views to the wider world.
Official Selection IDFA (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) 2020
ART CLASS is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title, favouring wit over weaponizing and reflection over rhetoric but does not pull its punches when it comes to the real obstructions to working class creative progress.
The only British guerrilla-shot homage to the short-lived, acid-western sub-genre of the countercultural era ever made promises a kaleidoscope of blood, guns, satanic nymphs and psychedelic frenzy! A bounty retrieval gone wrong sees gun for hire Caine Farrowood face his toughest challenge yet as he faces a mysterious stranger who holds the key to the truth of his fate.
Up until now, the list of people I’ve kissed in the dark has been comprised of two names. Both male. But with the witching season approaching, all that is about to change.
Official Selection Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2022
In the isolation of lockdown, a young man stays in contact with the outside world through voice messages, sent by friends and lovers. Those messages seem to fill his void, till he finds himself inhabited by a multitude of lonely beings. His only way out, is finding his own voice.
A mixed media piece integrating the stylization of documentary and spoken word. Inspired by Shenny de Los Angeles’ one-woman show “What Happens to Brown Girls Who Never Learn How to Love Themselves Brown?”, this piece invites you to witness the meaning of beauty through three generations of Dominican women. The grandmother, the mother, and the daughter. In learning about the ritual to beauty that was passed down to each woman, there is a pain buried deep in the denial of their blackness. It is only through the secret voice in the water, that the daughter is able to release herself from a pain she’s been holding onto since she was born. By forgiving herself and the women before her, will she finally see just how beautiful she is when she’s free?
Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2022
A film highlighting the joy of reclaiming your trans body. Rowyn explores their journey of top surgery through music and dance, showing the difference of feeling at ease in your own body. We are all a work in progress, and progress for trans people is incredibly meaningful.
An Australian woman moves across the world to be with a man who she considers her soulmate. On a surfing trip to Devon, she comes to terms with their incompatibility and makes the decision to leave.
A visual approximation surrounding the learning or relearning of sight through bionic implants. As we view diffuse abstracted visuals, based on real footage, the soundtrack reveals that we’re sharing the experience of someone in a fictional medical experiment.
