Projects in genres: Experimental

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Not being, as a sense of not being out there or even alive. The faces of iconic stars of the past mask or partly mask the film-maker's own face.

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In the 1980s, a crusading paediatrician in a small corner of the North of England ignited a mass panic that consumed the police, social services, health services, and hundreds of the families they were supposed to serve.

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Kelly is an assassin, a trained killer and experimental chemist who specialises in poison. She's just turned fifty and has become weary of her lifestyle. Yet the assassin is in her blood - anger and cynicism prevent her from turning her back on killing for money. Especially now. After learning of the brutal rape and murder of her young charge, Sam, Kelly allows an inner rage to take hold and breaks protocol by torturing and killing one of the murderers, leaving his body for the rest of the gang to discover in their warehouse. But the gang is not about to vanish. They are dangerous - organised crime professionals who inhabit Europe's dark underworld - and now it's their turn to seek vengeance. Ignoring desperate phone calls from her superior, Ed, urging her to allow his agency to protect her, Kelly goes on the run and flees to Spain where she attempts to ride out the storm - without success. As her pursuers move ever closer, Kelly needs to draw on radical ingenuity to stay alive, and taps into any opportunity to keep one step ahead of capture and a fate worse than death.

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Two assassins keep watch as a young man digs his own grave. Meanwhile, in a fancy-dress shop, the assassins’ daughter has just found out she is pregnant to the gravedigger when the kingpin who ordered the hit walks in. In his debut, writer/director Robert Herbert McClean draws inspiration from myriad of classic cinema to create this truly unique dark comedy.

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A fever dream of illness and recovery combining stop motion animation and live action in a doll’s house. A woman arrives ahead of her family at a rented house, describing the ideal life they will build together. What happens does not reflect her homemaker vision. Instead, the house and its contents confront her body as external expressions of her struggle to survive.

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Set in the small town of Gloucester, this surrealist drama explores the return of a young man (Rory Alexander) to his old life after the disappearance of his mother. Following his release from a psychiatric hospital, all appears to begin again as normal when his guardian Dunleavy (Mark Rylance) takes him in and offers him his old job back at the garage. But, one night, taken to a mysterious club by fellow garage workers, the old magic of the forest and his past collide in ways he could never expect.

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A poetic, experimental short film exploring the filmmaker's personal journey of masculine identity and the harmful attributes associated with masculinity. The earth cracks and gives way as a man is born to the stars. However, deep underground a seed takes root, sending its poison to the surface.

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Two ex-lovers bump into each other at a train station. Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2021 - World premiere Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2022

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Seven inhabitants of a de facto state on the Black Sea unfurl a web of stories about loss and displacement through re-imaginings of their dreams and memories of the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - World premiere

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A Professor of Psychology with a dark secret, a nun terrified of dying, and a traumatised young woman all come together in this trio of intersecting horror stories. BLACK LIZARD TALES features ghostly visions, demon worship, and serial murder set on an English university campus.

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A filthy love letter to Essex, like you’ve never seen it before. In a village at the end of the road, teenagers smothered in black mud, run wild through the vast salt marshes in a bizarre tradition hundreds of years old - ‘creek jumping’.

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An entrancing figure emerges inhabiting landscapes... Official Selection Cinequest Film Festival 2022