Projects in genres: Music

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Gordon is about to be 40. Perhaps it's time to grow up. A musical comedy from the streets of Hackney.
 
Gordon Bennett is a small time drug dealer who bypasses the normal responsibilities of a working man and father. He drifts through life like a puff of marijuana smoke on a summer breeze. His saving grace are a romantic imagination coupled with an optimistic belief that his life will get better.

Over the forty-eight hours that take him to the night of his fortieth birthday his optimism is mangled by a series of events instigated by friends, family and fate, coincidences that should make him change his life for good.
 
The film begins with a council tax dispute and ends with a stabbing on a council estate pavement, via a scheming father, a burglarising ex-wife, a custom dream car, two Danish junkies, half a kilo of coke in a goldfish bowl, three singing villains with varying degrees of psychosis, a very bad trip, a mysterious stripper, a disappearing boat on the River Thames and far too much marijuana.

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Documentary filmmakers par-excellence Samuel Dale and Darren King provide the definitive account of the Luton Institute For Christian and Moral Ethics, (LICME) campaign to prevent notorious rock group Smear of Filth performing in their town. The documentary also contains the only filmed interview with Sven Vader before his untimely death.

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A fusion of dance and documentary exploring what "home" means to people in East London.  Ervin's family fled from Kosovo. They are still waiting for his brother to find them. Nanthuja travelled alone in a container from Sri Lanka, Laura-anne is one of the first mixed-race members of her family.

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By 2050, lifestyle is designed by the Corporate State. Unhealthy food, obesity, famine and war are illegal.
 
Martin Dwyer, a mid-level executive, reports to the Head Office for a routine review. Instead, he is invited up to the top floor, the Executive Floor.

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When we close our eyes, the shapes and patterns we see are called phosphenes. This experiment in documentary unfolds like a 'look and learn' phosphenes primer. Animated flowcharts and rich shimmering images uncover some surprising facts about the visual phenomenon that every human experiences.

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Fighting over a television remote control, an eight year old girl and her little brother break a window. Mum will soon be home. What will they do? What will they tell her?
 
The two of them come up with a quick scheme to sort out the grave problem at hand; an emotional roller coaster that marks the end of their innocent cosy world. In the next ten minutes big sister comes up with the perfect plan and to her surprise, little brother becomes her unquestioning follower, or so she thinks.

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A low-key indie comedy about collaborating creatively with friends. Two young men in a London rock band have a large concert in ten days. They try to keep their plans and friendship together during the tense build up. Ultimately they triumph.

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The film is a modern drama set in London and explores the moral vacuum at the heart of contemporary youth culture.

The film portrays the lives of a brother and sister, highly educated and in their early twenties, who embark on a course of theft, deceit and eventual murder, in order to have the lifestyle they feel they are entitled to.

This leads to a web of intrigue and counter-plotting that eventually leads all the characters into the same bleak universe where all is possible.

The film intricately fuses the different art forms - Music, Drama and Dance - and contains original songs and music especially written for it, and highly innovative dance sequences which give expression to, and explore the emotional nature of, modern society.

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Silent film with 1920s soundtrack.
 
Millie and her flapper friends go to the beach to view the solar eclipse of 1927. Millie bumps into George, also on the beach with a sunbathing band. Frolicking ensures, watched by Spike through a telescope. George disappears at sea.

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A guy walks into a bar and takes on a challenge to win a pot of money. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen properly to the rules of the challenge, with shocking results. The story is told in funky rap-style dialogue.

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As much documentary as it is religious art, as much religious art as it is rock and roll, as much rock and roll as it is rhetoric and as much rhetoric as it is cinema.
This unique, kaleidoscopic film is "a richly cinematic experience" inside the lives of worshippers from the congregation of The Greater Bethany Community Church, (now The City of Refuge), in South Central Los Angeles. Bishop Noel Jones, (brother of Grace Jones), is both shepherd and rock as the film weaves between community life, gospel song and his electric church sermons.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002 - World premiere
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2002
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2002

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As Cinzas de Deus is a visual poem in a universe of realities.
 
Set in the ruins of an abandoned, once grandiose 19th century city, the film follows a woman, Helo, entering a world of memory and feeling, where characters - perhaps ‘trapped souls’ - are living and re-living moments from an unspecified past.
 
Helo penetrates their dream-like reality, visions of her own subconscious, absorbs them, challenges them, releases them. Their memory bank gradually erased, they disappear into the ether. 
 
In a climactic finale she confronts her own personal nemesis. She survives the life-and-death confrontation, and, left behind, she dances alone, immersed in dust and eternity.