An unpleasant return to Das Institut für den reinen Tor, Menschheim, Germany, for a forgetful investigation into memory.
Restarring: Dr Forschung (incarcerated); Prof Suchen (in pseudonym); Fernando Pessoa (in 5 personas);
James Joyce (in multi-Finnegans).
"I have more than just one soul.
There are more I's than I myself.
I exist, nevertheless"
Alberto Caeiro
"I'm not who I have in memory
Nor who is in me now."
Fernando Pessoa
A random drama dreamt by a database. A frolic through the foreafter “in the aye”; A tale told in four ayes; The four-abend of the other ayes; A post-prequel greeting and farewell; An oculists nightmare.
Methodology: Algorithgms of varying randomness source clips from a database comprised of all the elements contained in the AYE films to randomly determine; sequence, in-points, duration, tracks, layers
and then automatically compile the results into a non-linear editing application, making four different sufi "Greetings" which together make this Overture to the three feature films.
i eye aye
i 2 aye
3rd aye
"I seen the likes in the twinngling of an aye. Som. So oft. Sim. Time after time."
James Joyce
GREEN LUNG responds to the history of Derby Arboretum, Britain’s first public park, commissioned by mill owner Joseph Strutt, opened in 1840. Using screen-printed animation and found materials, the film makes connections between the nature of the park, and the industrial working lives of those it was intended to benefit.
Official Selection Ottowa International Animation Festival 2025 - Official Competition
Using Toni Morrison’s ‘The Site of Memory’ as a starting point for interrogation, HALF MEMORY is a languid meditation on memory, conurbations, isolation, and the histories we live among. Oscillating between years, cities, and unfolding images, the film is an examination of the present as an artefact of the past. Shot on Super8 and filmed between the US, France and the UK over a period of years.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025
Cam is a techno-hermit, conducting life from his electronically automated smart-home. Work, shopping, entertainment and most notably: socialising. Cam interacts with strangers on the platform Hello Stranger: a randomised video chatting website. Eventually, he encounters a masked stranger with an altered voice. Unnerved, Cam leaves the call only to find the stranger has hacked his smart-home and locked him in. The stranger tells Cam that he must win three rounds of games or it is ‘game over’. Viewers must make decisions and play the 3 games in order for Cam to survive but one wrong choice could lead to a grisly end.
An experimental collage film that uses a range of animation techniques to explore the story of migration and enterprise, told through the changing face of Britain’s high street. The film combines stop-motion with digital techniques and manipulated photographic cut-outs, creating continuous transition between past and present.
Official Selection Ottawa International Animation Festival 2024 - Official Competition
Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2024 - Official Competition
A journey of a woman overcoming fear of not being accepted: from her desire to correspond to societal standards to finally accepting that she is ‘not normal’ and that the only acceptance she needs is the self-acceptance.
During the 1950s, Ireland had the highest rate of psychiatric hospital use globally. Using archival documents, filmmakers Cáit McClay and Éiméar McClay look critically at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere
Different forms of communication are explored when a filmmaker attempts to find the name of a dead person they discovered behind their flat in Glasgow.
Taking its starting point the rapid drying of the Dead Sea, SINKHOLES is a dystopian vision of a world in which water has become scarce. Threading together ideas of entropy and the inhuman, SINKHOLES meditates on our desire both for survival and resignation in the face of extinction.
Black history and modern-day architecture intertwine in a meditative new film about Manchester. Created by the visionary British artist and filmmaker Jenn Nkiru, THE GREAT NORTH pays homage to the people and cultures that make up a city.
Taking Manchester’s industrial history as a starting point, THE GREAT NORTH moves through the city’s Black communities and spaces – from living rooms in Moss Side to social clubs and community centres in Hulme. THE GREAT NORTH is the story of Manchester told through its Black, Asian and Irish communities, spanning outwards to the North of England and the rest of the world.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025
Official Selection BlackStar Film Festival 2025
A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a man visiting his dying father in a sanatorium to the edge of a mythic forest. The Quay Brothers third feature film - a tale told through puppet animation and live-action, inspired by the book 'The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass' by Bruno Schulz.
Official Selection Venice Days 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025
