Projects in genres: Experimental

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A beautiful and enigmatic collection: wedding architecture; animals; John Cage; and John Ashbery Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Wavelengths - International premiere

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Following artist Bill Drummond over two years of his 12-year World Tour: At work in Kolkata, India, and in Lexington, North Carolina, doing his self-imposed 'work' – building beds, baking cakes, making soup, shining shoes – to the variously amused, perplexed or annoyed reactions of those around him.

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An odyssey across a common land in the south of England told through the hands of the members of the Natural History Society who currently occupy it.

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I AM ECHOBORG is a participatory dramatic experience created afresh each time by the audience having a conversation with an artificial intelligence. The production team built a real AI and the content and the outcome of the show depend on the words spoken by the audience and the AI.

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Awake or asleep? Alive or dead? What lies between? And who, or what, is that voice blurring lines between reality and fantastical nightmare?

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With shots of water supplied by volunteers around the world, International Waters is a poetry film about how we are all connected by water and it it to be valued because it will still be here after we have gone.

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The story of sixteen men put on trial for sadomasochism in the dying days of Thatcher's Britain was told by the police, the prosecution and the tabloid press - but not by those in the dock. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Official Short Film Competition - World premiere - Winner, Best Short Film Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 - Voices - International premiere

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Epoh Beech's hand drawn animation THE MASQUE OF BLACKNESS reimagines literature and explores the spirit of place. Guided by a winged horse and a grey seal you are taken on a magical, moonlit, journey from the Niger Delta in West Africa to the Thames and Rhine rivers in Northern Europe.

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Exploring the status and potential of unrealised and fragmented histories from the legacy of Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz (1941 – 2011) to animist cinematic traditions in Taiwan. The project takes as its starting point an unfinished film made by Raúl Ruiz in Taiwan in 1995. Based in Paris since the late 1970s Ruiz came to Taiwan to film THE COMEDY OF SHADOWS / LA COMEDIE DES OMBRES with a script inspired by the Taoist philosophy of Chuang Tzu’s' Wandering on the Way' and Luigi Pirandello’s 'Six Characters in Search of an Author'. The project was filmed at Chin Pao San cemetery with a Taiwanese cast and crew but never finished. The incompleteness of Ruiz’s film is the starting point for DOUBLE GHOSTS, that considers the echoes of this unrealized project to explore cinematic and political phantoms. Drawing on research and diverse collaborations with filmmakers Valeria Sarmiento and Niles Atallah as well as Chilote fishermen, the film is staged as a series of actions seeking to reactivate this lost film. Filmed on 35mm film in Chile and Taiwan, DOUBLE GHOSTS follows traces across the Pacific from Ruiz’s birthplace in Puerto Montt to the mountain cemetery in Taiwan. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 Official Selection New York Film Festival 2019 - Projections

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An elderly man travels to a remote Scottish Island to come to terms with his own mortality.

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A young woman who lives in her thoughts goes back to the sea to centre herself. As she dives into the water, she dives under her skin and penetrates her psychological wrapping.

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William Sellers and the Colonial Film Unit developed a framework for colonial cinema, slow edits and minimal camera movement, no camera tricks. In an effort to recuperate black dance from this colonial project, SPECIALISED TECHNIQUE, attempts to transform this material from studied spectacle to livingness. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Bright Future