Projects in genres: Experimental

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A surreal journey, shot on sumptuous colour 16mm, into a sinister realm of gender display and its consequences. Behind the red curtain of a theatrical stage, a masked woman in a nude bodysuit performs to an invisible but enthusiastic audience. By manipulating male puppets, she acts out the threat of sexual violence. The character manifests the tension between internal anxiety and external sensuality. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta

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Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in post-revolution Iranian cinema. Official Selection Vienna Shorts Film Festival 2022

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A clip from the iconic 1999 science fiction film "The Matrix" becomes a much older silent movie with piano accompaniment, seen again in its own far future or where time no longer counts. The two lovers shift roles and even genders in the obscure cinematic space that contains them.

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The film explores the story of Veronica Ghent (Alice Krige) who after a double mastectomy, goes to a healing retreat in rural Scotland with her young nurse Desi (Kota Eberhardt). She discovers that the process of such surgery opens up questions about her very existence, leading her to start to question and confront past traumas. The two develop an unlikely bond as mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams. Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2021 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult

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SOFT RIO plays between erotic and erratic productions of layered movement and sound. Inspired by Audre Lorde's 1978 essay "Uses of the Erotic", the film was shot on the stage of the Rio Cinema in London (once a striptease stage) featuring dancer Astrid Sweeney and sound by @xcrswx.

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A filmmaker tries to communicate with the sheep now living where his parents were buried fifteen years ago. Official Selection IndieLisboa Film Festival 2022

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Fragments of hundreds of films from around the world draw together an ensemble cast of actors with one thing in common: each is no longer alive. Together, they contend with a fragile existence lived solely through the traces of their work. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - World premiere

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An aesthetically invigorating reworking of the casting process of Sidney Franklin’s The Good Earth (1937), a film notorious for a white actor’s racist portrayal of a Chinese character. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta

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Based on examples of cultural production in times of ideological crisis and employing allegory and architecture, here is a competition for a gift that could heal a divided nation. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - Memorials of Meaning

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Rachel Maclean’s bright, emoji-feminist fairy tale-style touches a new darkness in her first completely animated short. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - What Are You Looking At?

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Abdullah is exiled in London. His family are trapped in Syria. This is their existence.

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SWEDGE OF HEAVEN is a moving image project that continues a line of the artist's practice engaging with the nature of experience in relation to place – particularly through the perspective of being connected to a place whilst simultaneously being a stranger to or outside of it. Using real world locations in Essex, Swedge of Heaven explores liminal/transitional/peripheral spaces and realms, navigated by a reanimated rave mascot and a wooden Neolithic fertility figure. Although from distant moments in history, the protagonists are both figures indicative of ritual gathering created by Essex communities. Within the work the isolated figures hover in cultural/historical flux, a state of simultaneous belonging and alienation as they pass through and around places seemingly suspended on the edge of conventional time and space. The project employs experimental digital animation techniques that bring together 3D generated models of real world objects/sites and computer generated actors that navigate in and out of these virtual real world spaces.