Projects in genres: Experimental

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This hypnotic VR narrative unfolds around 5 characters, increasingly struggling to access their uploaded memories. Set in a breathtaking visual landscape, this dystopian future unravels slowly around you, leaving you challenged to re-think your own beliefs and actions. It’s an exploration of a possible future that says much about our present lives. Imagine a world where there is no air left to breathe, no rivers to race a paper boat on and no parks to roam in. Environmental damage, job-automation, the breakdown of personal connections have led to a future where the best choice of survival is to upload your own memories into an automated AI cloud server and reconnect with loved ones in the vastness of the net. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021

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Following the threefold journey of a rock through distinct layers of reality. June’s the best month, June’s the brightest month isn’t it? June’s the best month, June’s the brightest month isn’t it? June’s the best month, June’s the brightest month isn’t it? With narration from the rock in its mother tongue (usefully subtitled), it plays in the parallel mirror-image universe as hypothesised by a prophetic laminitic Shetland Pony based in Perthshire. Like a stoney Virgil, the rock guides us through its attempts to do only the realest of things.

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The anthropologist Ger Duijzings reads his diary from wartime Yugoslavia (1992) while walking the streets of London. His diary entries are echoed and confronted by images of London. The film was shot with seven cameras in real-time and a single continuous take.

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An intimate portrayal of grief after the loss of a friend.

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I wouldn't have made this if I had not heard counter-tenor Hugues Cuénod at Covent Garden Opera House as a child. The film animates images taken mainly from old photographic plates, to pick up the beat and ripple of the soundtrack, overlaid by the voice of Jimmy Somerville with its astonishing range of pitch and timbre.

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During a long hot summer in the forest, Child is forced to grow up. First her Dog becomes ill, then out of the blue her Mother returns with a new lover in tow. Child’s world is turned upside down. A coming of age story, set in an enchanted Russian wilderness.

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Made entirely in Unreal, during lockdown in the UK, in a week in which VE day celebrations collided with Black Lives Matter protests, this film questions the persistence of nostalgia as a form of social control.