Based on documents found in Berlin archives, 'Four Parts of a Folding Screen' explores exclusion, statelessness and the legalised theft and sale of everyday family possessions by the National Socialist regime. A voice, enigmatic and sometimes uncertain, foretells of, relates and recalls the routine processes of injustice and their legacy: the creation of a diaspora of household objects, scattered amongst buildings that no longer exist. As the camera probes the secrets of ordinary spaces, streets and buildings around the city of Berlin, semblances of a person and a history begin to emerge and coalesce.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere
Set within London's neighbourhoods, Honours In Attendance shines a light on the unconventional lives of two live-at-home students, Sean & Raymond. Whilst Raymond happily shuns campus life, Sean haplessly tries to integrate. Following their first lecture, the two students invoke a friendship that transcends a mutual disdain for their tutors and peers. Their camaraderie offers solace in an environment charged by isolation, apathy, identity crises and looming deadlines.
As a child, Ivanka was chosen by fairy women for the special task of entering the realm of the dead to discover the future. As an old lady, the spirits have left her, so how does she navigate between the two worlds now?
Frank, funny and moving drama about four young women's abortion
experiences, told verbatim from real interviews, with spoken word and urban-afro music. Adapted from a successful theatre show.
Official Selection Hot Docs 2019 - Persister - International premiere
A fictionalised documentary essay, tracing the politics of the Thames River, from colonialism to global financialisation, through the prism of Joseph Conrad’s 'Heart of Darkness'.
Two unseen people meet in Shoeburyness, where the Thames River meets the North Sea. With a visually distinctive use of tableau shots of locations along the Thames, they narrate their journey to London’s Docklands. The woman quotes from 'Heart of Darkness', but instead of travelling up the Congo River into the heart of Africa, their journey ends in the heart of London’s Docklands, where contemporary darkness reigns. A self-proclaimed ‘accelerationist’, the woman plans to destroy the financial district and accelerate capitalism towards its end, while the man is more concerned for the ecology of the river and our debt to nature.
Christina uses the immense noise of her collection of televisions to block out the voices in her head. That is until one day she has a power-cut. This plunges her into the silence she's always feared and where the voices have control.
The rituals of Persian warrior training are seen in combination with the recitations of a young girl coming to terms with her impending womanhood.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2018 - International premiere
Philosopher Johnny Golding ruminates on a formative childhood experience, when her father brought home an early prototype of night vision he was working on for the American Military 'Project Eyeglass'. Shot using corrupted nightvision footage, the film explores Johnny's interest in quantum physics, entanglement and her philosophy of Radical Matter.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 - World premiere
Using a zoom lens and filmed undercover, this video observes the architectural space of a new housing development in East London. As the sun fades and lights go on the camera witnesses both the empty order of the surrounding area and the activity within the flats.