If the estimated 4.5 billion years our planet has been in existence is equated to 24 hours, modern humans have been around for 4 seconds. This film poses questions about our relationship with our home, and journeys from aerial terrains over Iceland to intimate macro worlds in southern England.
Marilyn is trying really hard to make something that is good. For once her expectations and reality are going to align, perfectly. It will be even better than she imagined. It will be epic. It will be tear-jerkingly profound. It will be perfecter than perfect. Nothing can go wrong.
An action sequence appropriated from a famous late 20th century Hollywood Science Fiction film is reprocessed to give it a look from an earlier period, making semi-abstract patterns where the world is turned right to left, sliding on its side.
The boundaries between childhood and adulthood become blurry for a kid at his mother’s cocktail party. In this experimental-narrative short, characters, symbols and abstractions interchange to examine the relationships between children and adults, escapism and sexuality.
Have you ever woken in the night unable to move, certain that you are not alone? This is an experimental documentary examining what happens when dreams leak into waking life. It is about what is real, what is not, and if it even matters.
The true story of Imperial Provisor Frombald, a very composed and efficient administrator. who is asked to travel deep into the Serbian countryside to resolve a spot of eighteenth century vampire hysteria that leaves him feeling nothing less than a little hysterical himself.
Experimental Animation. Third in a Trilogy of Films
Following Manufactured Noise and Indoctrination.
Total abstraction, subliminal rhythms, indoctrination and intrusion.
Are explored to an emotive soundtrack composed by the director
Michael Salkeld
Manufactured Britishness depicts a fictional future where immigrants must undergo physical assessments to demonstrate their worth as prospective British citizens. The narrative is set in post-industrial locations which are turned into training zones where immigrants engage in pre-learned and repetitive tasks in order to pass a bizarre test of citizenship.
A film by Martin Wallace and Jarvis Cocker, The Big Melt combines 100 years of footage from the BFI National Archive with a score recorded live at the Crucible Theatre on the opening night of Sheffield Doc/Fest in June 2013 to tell the story of steel, the story of the men in the steelworks and the story of Sheffield.
Taking us on musical journey into the soul of a nation, it brings to life the ghosts of our past, taking us into the belly of the furnaces and showing how our national character has been stamped from the mighty presses of our industrial heritage.
Featuring leading Sheffield musicians including Jarvis Cocker and Pulp band members, the City of Sheffield Brass Band, Richard Hawley and his band members, the Forgemasters, a string quartet and a youth choir, the live soundtrack has been edited by Cocker to create a phenomenal music score - a new kind of Sheffield heavy metal, with pictures.
