Projects in genres: Experimental

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Based on Colin Wilson's novel ‘Adrift in Soho’, published in 1961, following the book’s critique of society through the bohemian Soho of the 1950s with its trappings between the daytime poverty and the libertarian nightlife, and portraying a group of young people who meet in Soho.
Starting as a fictional drama about a documentary, the film ends up as a documentary of a fictional drama through the lens of a group of young filmmakers. It can be seen as an homage to the Free Cinema filmmakers of the 1950s, a movement that Colin Wilson lived through and very much identified with.

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An 85 year old Holocaust survivor named Janine and a young African American rapper named Kapoo collaborate to deliver a Hip Hop message to the youth of the world.
A poignant and uniquely challenging fusion of prose, music and rap. For the first time, one of the world's darkest stories is told in an entirely new way.

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Explorings how we present ourselves as women through societies feminine ideals and analyses the consumption of beauty in the digital age. ‘Ambie Drew’ exists to achieve perfection in a synthetic reality, manipulating herself through the use of beauty tools to play on an amplified, kitsch femininity.

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One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

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Nobirds are the “no birds” that sing in Keats’s 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The poem is re-imagined as a computer game where the “knight at arms” and the “belle dame” might win one another if they make the right choices. Real birds as negative images haunt their quest.

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A surrealist re-imagining of THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES in the north of England.
Filmmaker Francesca Levi combines archival and found footage to create a speculative vision of the seaside town of Blackpool, one which is both unsettling and curiously nostalgic. Commissioned as part of Live Cinema UK's The Unfilmables project, the film features a score composed by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019

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The Inland Sea is a meditative journey into the mind of a female victim of domestic abuse.

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A short animated documentary about what it means to be conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially intelligent; using hand drawn techniques to explore the human tendency to anthropomorphise simple drawings, and how we might do the same to machines.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition

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In a hinterland within the 'elsewhere', a lone character meanders in search of meaning and understanding. Hither and dither doth he wander reflecting upon all things that came before and all things hereafter.
This work is a companion piece to Andrew Kotting's feature film LEK AND THE DOGS and was shot in the Atacama desert in Chile. Produced to run on a loop in a gallery 'space' the film exemplifies Kotting's ability to take an idea and run with it until it spills over into the expanded cinematic 'elsewhere'.
With the beguiling presence of French performance artist Xavier Tchili and sublime cinematography by Nick Gordon-Smith the work is designed to be experienced within the pitch black and the sound up high.

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A pilgrimage from Andrew Kotting to Derek Jarman along the south coast of England through a haze of post-election hope and despair.

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A bare all Avant-garde homage to silent stag films and pre-code Hollywood.

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The Tate Gallery recently staged a retrospective of the surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917- 2011), famously the lover of Max Ernst. Novelist Chloe Aridjis, who knew the artist from her native Mexico, was made guest curator of the exhibition. Set between the real-life curation of the Tate show and something more fantasised, FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL sees Chloe increasingly disappointed by her milieu - and increasingly haunted by Carrington’s strange artworks.
When an elusive, brooding man seems to offer more, Chloe begins to pursue him, but is she hunter, or hunted? Enabled by Carrington’s own defiantly mysterious mythology, she descends into a world of obsession.
Shot on a rare '80s video camera with a unique look, and deftly weaving fact and fiction, the film offers a darkly romantic fantasia of a woman who goes beyond societal norms, putting on screen the lurid unconscious of our new sexual politics.
Official Selection BAFICI Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival 2018 - World premiere