Where does the character end and the actor begin? This debut feature from UK artist-filmmaker Richard Squires, is a creative documentary that employs 'Clovis', an animated antihero (voiced by 'Kids in the Hall's' Mark McKinney) as a means to explore the particular “voice” casting of cartoon villains in the late 1960s. Through the lens of one of Hollywood’s hidden queer histories, this documentary offers a contemplation on the psycho-social relationship between villainy and hysterical male laughter; the use of voice as a signifier of ‘otherness’ and the frequently uneasy symbiosis of character and actor.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future - International premiere
A lyrical portrait of indigenous habitats and species, as well as human interactions with the sea, in and around a coastal town in northwest Scotland. Shot on 35mm, capturing the ebb and flow of daily life in a small Scottish coastal town. Opening with a lyrical portrait of human activity, the film then shifts gear, travelling underwater to capture an aquatic world living side-by-side with the town, in a style reminiscent of Jean Painlevé’s nature films.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
Created by Scottish artist Rachel Maclean in 2018 to mark 100 years since women were first given the right to vote in the United Kingdom. Part horror movie, part comedy, MAKE ME UP reflects on the shortcomings of our journey towards equality throughout the past century.
The film imagines a dystopian future where a group of women are trapped in a cruel reality TV-style competition in the brutal modernist setting of St Peter’s Seminary. Here, voting is not a liberation – it is a harsh judgement the contestants must face. New arrival Siri learns the rules of a show where compliance and attractiveness are key. Emboldened by her growing friendship with fellow inmate Alexa, Siri finds ways of sabotaging the system and discovers some terrible truths in the process.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Special Presentation - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives
Three films made from found footage, video diaries, performance and to-camera discourse. Music and narrative voiceover connect the chapters searching for subjectivity through various existential backdrops; from responses to love with addiction, pain and release, to a detective story set in Jaffa and Tel Aviv, and finally a dance across Europe in search of a happy ending.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Experimenta Strand -World premiere
The stories of the desperate souls who pass through the doors of 508, a room on the fifth floor of an anonymous, decaying hotel.
A surreal and blackly comic journey down the hotel's lonely corridors and behind its out-dated furnishings and stained surfaces. The story plunging into the ever-turning carousel of haunted lives who check in and out of the establishment. Adulterers, lonely businessmen, and hustlers grapple with their demons whilst a prying, occasionally sinister hotel staff always seems to be within earshot. Inside this hotel the mundane transforms into an implement of threat; a faulty light fixture appears to contain a hidden camera; a heating unit whispers to guests with increasing menace; a television set randomly flips channels, displaying TV shows which reveal a guest's secret paranoid fantasies; and a stray look into the bathroom mirror becomes the quickest way to disprove your existence.
One of a series of videos in which everything happens at the edges of the frame. In this piece waves build up (in stereo) and then unfurl.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives - World premiere
Interweaving the directors’ lived experiences of present-day Nicosia with their memories as children whose fathers served with the RAF in Cyprus, FATHER-LAND explores notions of home, loss and displacement in the politically charged space of the UN Buffer Zone, the demilitarised strip that has partitioned the island since 1974.
Between the 1960s and 70s three sisters each ate from her own coloured enamel plate at a specific place at the table.
PLATES juxtaposes audiovisual recording of material objects with narrative interpretations of their past context. Each plate manifests an individual sound, colour, and damage. Evoking interpretations of childhood identity.
The film gives insight in to Alyssa's anxiety phase of grieving as hallucinations build to a peak, blurring her understanding of time and mortality before reaching an emotional rebirth.
Global in scope but intimate in spirit, a dizzying assembly of footage shot between the bucolic English countryside and buzzing metropoles New York and Hong Kong.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - World premiere
By turns raucous and reserved, 'I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead' ponders the future of a world in flux as seen through the eyes of motherhood accented by poets CAConrad and Eileen Myles.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future
