An emotive Mixed Reality performance which uses Volumetric Capture to display a virtual dancer who interacts with, and occupies the same space as a live performer - allowing her to duet with a digital double.
REPLICA asks you to consider human issues around liveness, mortality, memory and ageing - exploring how we present ourselves and connect with each other in a world of growing digitisation.
Official Selection ART*VR 2025
STEPNEY WESTERN is an experimental documentary made in collaboration with young inner city horse riders from Stepney Bank Stables in Byker, Newcastle. It is loosely centred on their Alternative Provision programme — a unique alternative for teenagers who struggle in mainstream education settings. Recasting Byker as the Wild West, this project sits at the porous boundary between fact and fiction, combining re-contextualised iPhone clips shot by the riders and archival material with Lawson's own footage.
As thousands of people travel to see the total solar eclipse in Texas, one woman drives from Dallas to New Mexico, in search of a legal abortion.
Concurrently, people in a town off the Interstate she is driving along decide whether to crack down on 'abortion traffickers' like her.
Official Selection Odense Film Festival 2025
Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2025
ALSO RESISTERS considers solidarity across generations and geography. Adapted from a 1968 essay by the gay American socialist David E. McReynolds, the short archival film takes the images and sounds of the American war in Vietnam to reflect on the feedback loop between militarism abroad and at home - and the people who resisted it.
Official Selection DOC NYC 2025 - Shorts Competition
APPLE GATHERERS explores the loneliness and dissatisfaction in a labour-intensive world of two main characters and the brief reprieve they have in moments of real human connection. The moment is fleeting, yet powerful - at the same time, it can be interpreted as the single strand that binds them to their drudgery. Set at the bottom of a hierarchical apple cider factory where every aspect of apple production is meticulously controlled, the Peeler and the Shoveller wrestle with management to hold onto their humanity.
Official Selection PÖFF Shorts - Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025
Official Selection AFI Fest 2025
Official Selection LIAF - London International Animation Festival 2025
In 2024, 82 people lost their lives crossing the English Channel while seeking safety in the UK - the deadliest year on record. In the wake of grief, a poignant journey along the English coast unveils the darker undercurrents beneath the surface. Archiving the sites and textures of the border architecture in the port town of Dover, the film invites viewers to inhabit the tactile imprints of border violence, in a deeply moving contemplation of how borders shape our relationship to place.
What are the borders of the United Kingdom? Roaming landscapes filmed in 16mm reveal physical traces of different boundaries throughout the nation. People encountered while filming lend their voice to stories from Brook House, a large immigration detention centre on the outskirts of London. A contemplation on the ways migration is perceived and controlled across the country.
ONCE AGAIN... (STATUES NEVER DIE) explores the storied relationship between Dr Albert C. Barnes, an early US collector and exhibitor of African cultural artefacts, and Alain Locke, a renowned philosopher and cultural critic, known as the 'Father of the Harlem Renaissance'. Their unlikely bond shapes cultural perspectives in early 20th century America, sparking an intellectual discourse during a pivotal era of cultural awakening.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Panorama - World premiere
STARS tells of the Nommo: extra-terrestrial Afro-hermaphrodite anthro-amphibian migrants. Delivered from outer space via the Dogon of Mali, STARS is a queer African tale of tails, told through animation, music, and poetry.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2025 - Forum Expanded
As a young black girl falls out of love with her natural hair, a mother - through a poem - works to inspire self love and acceptance in her daughter, against a world that whispers otherwise.
A 16mm film responding to legacies of Scottish colonialism and slavery in Guyana through archival research, matrilineal lines and sewing.
Official Selection Third Horizon Film Festival 2025
