Projects in genres: Experimental

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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.

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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.

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A short observational documentary examining the 500 year old process of construction, set against the rural landscape that frames it.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Four in the morning, crapped out, yawning.

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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.

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The Golem, a monstrous being of inanimate matter from Jewish folklore, is accidentally summoned from a book wreaks havoc through a library.

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Enter The Green Mind, where lizards pose in secret grottoes, bats circle twilit jungles and snakes entwine amongst flowers.

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Who knows where ideas come from? You or me? Or THEM? The Muses are angry and they want their ideas back! This is a story of thieving and reappropriation, staged on a mythological platform.

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An experimental film exploring the countless possibilities of filmmaking and archive production, and powerfully conveys the argument for education as social purpose (BFI.)