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
As much a film project and an experiment in collaboration as it is a set of fragments drawn from a reimagined cosmos. These fragments, sounds, and stories help us convey the experiential moment of entanglement, or rather, they describe an entangled moment prior to separation, what we call “Deep Implicancy”.
One such story we follow is water, both as it phases transitions with and into other matter including life, but also as it combines disparate geographies, bodies of/in water, and four islands within them – Lesvos, Haiti, Marshall Islands, Tiwi.
Through a series of experimental migrations and elemental crossings we begin to question the form of the universal human, its calcified and exceptional origins, and in particular its ethical program. Wandering and wondering through a transformative figuring of justice, we ask, what if our image of the world recalled phase instead of measure? And what becomes of ethics if we let go of value? (Arjuna Neuman, Denise Ferreira da Silva)
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum Expanded Exhibition - Group Exhibition at Betonhalle - World premiere
