Projects in genres: Music

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On a Friday night in London, Alec, an enigmatic homeless man, sits across the street from a black-tie party at a posh hotel. A chance occurrence gives Alec the opportunity to enter this high society gathering, where the layers of his personality and his past are revealed to an unsuspecting audience.

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A walking/musical journey into the heart of the environmental crisis. This documentary traces the footsteps of folk band Nimomashtic as they walk 900 miles around the UK , quite literally from gig to gig in their bid to inspire others to make a difference in their everyday lifes to help the environment.

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The setting is the London Underground. The film passes through real places and transforms in and out abstract shapes and forms. The music and the images are presented as equal elements in balance and harmony with each other. The film was created using a unique production process with the director/animator also working as the score composer. The images were designed as a reaction to the music.

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In the aftermath of a decision impossible to reverse, political debate is submerged in an ambient world of photoshoot, marimba and birdsong.

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Harmony and chaos meet in a mechanism of rythms and lights. The birth and death of a surreal environment in which familiar game-like rules drive the action's tightly synchronised evolution. A single oscillating dot becomes an abstract musical machine which plays itself using glowing orbs before exploding into particles which collapse together as the cycle completes.

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As the world sleeps, a man dreams and his dream-spirit explores the winding streets of a slumbering watery town. He travels as a ball of light and sees hints and suggestions of a woman who evades him. She appears variously as a shadow, a footprint or the reflection of a face just turning away. Whether she is living or dead is unclear. As night slowly recedes and nature covers the traces of past loves, they come together in a final meeting and fade away forever.

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In a bewitching musical drama Tina longs for what she can't have. A chopper magically appears and a whirlwind of colourful musical scenes unfolds, involving a furious mother, dancing neighbours and clowning policeman.

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An experimental short film that explores the theme of childhood and lost innocence. The imagery - based around the fairground carousel - evokes a fairytale and dreamlike yet sinister atmosphere that belies the decorative classical score.

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A devil dances to techno in the forest. He comes across a group of campers by a fire and dances them into oblivion.

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With Cole Porter's songs, Divine Inspiration is a musical comedy about Kenneth Hawkstone, an artistic genius who can paint, write, direct and also date models. But he's suffering a mid-life and a spiritual crisis that affects his creativity. When he affirms that he doesn't believe in God, God is surprised because Kenneth is 'her' favorite creation and wants to meet him immediately.

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Six actors punch, kick and wrestle their way through the Wild West of an East London drinking establishment. The ritual of the Western bar-brawl is relocated in a London working men's club. The formal approach (to choreography, framing and editing) ensures that the viewer is made aware of the choreographed nature of the violence. This violence appears to have no consequences, the actors' bodies being as rubbery and invulnerable as those in the television Westerns that inspired it.

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It features an aging performer towards the end of her life. The story is told through the lyrics of her song. She is dragging herself around the country, performing her show wherever she can get a booking - to quote from the song - 'Well fame alone won't pay the bills'. It is a poignant tribute to fading celebrity. The performer is watched by members of the audience and those working in the theatre where she appears. Although it is an effort, she can still come alive on stage.