Does school prepare you for adult life? Does hardship build character? A personal and unconventional documentary about a teacher who left deep scars on the psyche of his former pupils.
Past time, suspended time. Macro vision serves as a tool to experience what has long been known. Perceptual tension between the in and out of focus, between enquiry and observation, abstraction and representation persuade the body to look and experience more intently. At once disturbing and nostalgic, the soundtrack lures the viewer into a claustrophobic and apocalyptic space as we have to find new ways of being with the world. Filmed and recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown in Waterlow Park, London and Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire.
..and sharing is caring, two neighbours' motto and habit of sharing, being there for each other continues during the global pandemic with a dancy bucket. I want to question our vision of care and screendance as means of sharing kinestethic experiences and perspectives.
A modern satire on aristocracy, competition and extinction, drawn from a sixteenth century musical curiosity about a king killing for sport.
British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini sings Janequin’s La chasse (1537), complete with hunting sound effects, and plays a royal family determined to reign supreme.
Rena attends a speed dating event where she meets an array of daters all with the same objective, to find a connection. Rena questions whether love and technology are a stairway to heaven or a marriage made in hell. Commissioned by BBC Arts New Creatives and Screen South.
Based on a true story, HERMIT is a film poem which follows a man without a home and who has no desire for one. Afraid of permanency, he lives in a nightmare of endless transition, going aimlessly from job to job. HERMIT questions contemporary notions of belonging in a temporary and unsettled world, taking us on a journey through the fears of this strangely detached existence.
An incel struggles to deal with his rocky mental health and the cold stares of a woman in a coffee shop - fighting a losing battle to maintain self control
The Hippies were a bizarre English punk band formed in '79 by the Hulse children, Toby (12), Matt (11) and Polly (8). Their cassette album 'A Sound for the Future' featured songs about disease, assassination and the Antarctic.
"Stop eating toast and singeing your legs by the gas fire. Get up and do something!" (Ruth Pendragon, Mother, Manager, Guru), 1979. The Hippies performed ticketed live shows for their mother’s kindly but chaotic group of Cambridge friends; the homeless, drunks, animal rights activists, junkies, cross-dressers and gay Franciscan friars.
The Hippies then and now. What truly happened back in the past and whose side of the story should be told? Especially as the film’s director was the band's 11-year-old drummer? Matt’s mum Ruth, maverick, mystic, manager, plays a pivotal role in the bigger picture, offering an insight into a time of personal and social upheaval, both for her and her family in Thatcher’s Britain.
Using music of the period, archive, animation and poetic reimaginings of key moments, Matt Hulse explores a part-remembered, kaleidoscopically fractured, family history, through an energetic, jarring, ride; part performance, part art, part process, post-punk.
Bill Clinton’s strange legacy as President of the United States and ringmaster of the 1990s is a confounding mess of public amnesia, nostalgia, and scorn. WILLIAM JEFFERSON WILDERNESS is a personal exploration that legacy, and of the tangled process of consigning a former political hero to history.
DOK Leipzig • International Competition • World Premiere
St. Louis International Film Festival • Official Selection
Florida Film Festival • Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant Garde
