A portrait of Jamaican-born artistic polymath Barbara Samuels. Featuring an account of her first generation, diasporic experience in Southend and London, and her discovery of hippiedom and the personal freedoms offered by entry into creative life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
How does one inhabit a world in which “the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky”? Doyali Islam’s poem 'letter' interrogates this question, offering no solutions. The work is saturated with longing – and charged by it.
Set on the island planet of Kairos Linea, ELEVEN ELEVEN is a multi-linear narrative that places users in the center of the action as its inhabitants count down the final 11 minutes and 11 seconds to an extinction-level event. The only guarantee for survival is aboard a rescue ship that will launch just before the clock hits zero, transporting a lucky few to the safety of a floating ark in the sky. The narrative plays out in real-time and focuses on six main characters whose stories intersect as they try to make it to the ship, or face the reality of what could be their final moments.
Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Virtual Cinema Competition - World premiere
In 1961 Elvis misses his cue at a recording session and politely starts again. Analogue sound is converted to video showing the audio frequency spectrum, and a shuffle dancer from recent online footage dances through it.
Separate projections combine, unifying, becoming whole. Twelve animated projections combine to develop a rhythmic dialogue exploring the intrinsic relationship between sound and image using 16mm film, paint and a projector.
A unique three-episode hybrid of real-time VR experience, live performance, and video essay in which three moving image makers explore how we now watch films by putting various ‘machines for viewing’ including cinema and virtual reality face to face.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - New Frontier
Air safety instructions can be ambiguous.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020 - Perspective
A barefoot dancer possibly contravening local laws busks in St.Mark's Square, Venice. His performance is captured from the internet and focused into 24 narrow panels to show pattern
and movement flow across time.
S u b l i m i n a l
Is an short Experimental film created to a musical sound track composed by the director Michael Salkeld. Photographed in 4K Cinema scope with surround sound. The music was created with acoustic violin and electronic keyboard.
A love letter to a forgotten space.
Tones and textures intersect – noises, light, shadow, forms – extended and expanded, drawing us into this non-place.
"The non-place never exists in pure form; places reconstitute themselves in it; relations are restored and resumed in it".
Marc Augé - Non-Places