Projects in genres: Experimental

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A naïve actress new to the industry allows her senses to be seduced by this world, trusting a well established director which leads to dramatic consequences.

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The film uses puppets and automata as human surrogates, and combines original material with found-footage and archive photographs. The idea of hypnosis occurs throughout, notably in the records of its use in the treatment of hysteria at the Salpetriere Asylum in 19th century Paris.

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A confrontation between two swimmers in a locker room ends in tears. A collaboration with London-based musicians GUO. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Dare Strand

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Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy designed New Gourna in 1954, introducing ecological principles for mud architecture to Egypt. He dreamt that rural populations might have sustainable lives. Stills and an experimental soundtrack take a haunting look at efforts from the 1940s in sustainability in the Middle East. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020 - Perspectives

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A film that considers the effects of amnesia. Through the lens of alien abduction, mesmerism, the radio frequency detritus of cold war history, and Britain's decolonial process in Kenya, the film weaves an expressionistic account of memory loss and the trauma often involved with its recovery. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020 - Bright Future

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An optimistic declaration of a young seven-year-old's truth.

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A couple looks hopefully into the future. They soon discover the obstacles they must overcome to be accepted. As generations evolve their position alters in what was once a foreign land. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand

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I used to to be a vegetarian. pigs used to be my friends. Now I eat them quite a lot.

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To the right, a distorting face inside a rectangle tries to avoid being classified as human - but fails! To the left, algorithms including Boolean operators seek to refine a description of image content with varying amounts of confidence.

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Set in the Welsh valleys, during the 1950s, we follow a fairy-tale crazed boy who believes his Father spends every day venturing down the rabbit hole through Wonderland. When his father fails to return from work in the coal mines, he battles with coming to terms with his father's death.

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An approach to local history unfolding. The film foregrounds quiet, tender engagement, forms of love, absence, and ritual. A deliberate lack of language underlines recurring inadequacies to express uproot and deeply felt emotions engendered. A LOVE considers individual and collective loss, value, and necessity for communal recognition. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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A screen test for an adaptation of the ballet 'Giselle' as an ecofeminist thriller. Reimagined in a near-future, where Giselle and her friends have moved on from a failed metropolis to her mother’s rural village to “reset society”. An invasion of their successful community sets off a contamination of their new ecosystem with old power dynamics. Giselle’s death emerges as an investigation into mutability and multiplicity as a strategy for escape. (FIAC Brochure) Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020 - Bright Future - International premiere