After the loss of a friend, 12-year-old Jerome attends his first nine night.
Set in 1970s London, the film explores the duality of grief and celebration within the mourning period of Jamaican culture. Whilst paying homage to the generations before us who have been intentional about preserving tradition.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2023
A 30-minute opera film featuring the creative talents of 85 people living with Parkinson's. With a narrative inspired by the extraordinary exploits of historical English heroine, Margaret Catchpole (1762-1819), the original score by Amy Mallett incorporates music, libretto, choreography and art co-created with members of the Parkinson’s community.
A cinematic music video for independent musician Kēynes, This high-concept music video reflects the beautiful mess that life is – a narrative rumination about the highs and lows of love lost, in a vibrant, fun but meaningful way.
Misdirection is introduced about what it is we’re seeing – romance, intimacy and stoic confidence colour the narrative, using different techniques (a very intentional colour palette, match cuts, quick cuts, vignettes, non-linear and meta-narrative) to tell a story drenched in symbolism (smoke and fire feature throughout) forced perspective and an approach to pop music videos that entertains (as all pop music videos should) but stays true to the tropes of European cinema in a fresh modern way whilst paying tribute to the vernacular of classic romances.
REMEMBERING follows a younger version of Mark, as he relives fleeting memories of a school he attended as a teenager, a blossoming passion for dance, and the final memories he has of his grandmother.
Part film, part an immersive performance, THE LAST FOREVER is a sprawling narrative - about a spouse that’s gone missing - a story that is fanciful, poignant and always entertaining. This film originates in 35mm slides from garage sales, lab castoffs, flea markets, eBay, as well as artists’ own archives.
An experimental short about female desire, shame and betrayal. Drawing from a highly personal experience we follow a vulnerable young woman experiencing a breakdown via a collision of conflicting relationships and gender power struggles.
Using physicality, haunting sound design and immersive camera work as vessels for intimate, multi-layered and unerringly contemporary story telling. Our lead finds herself on a repeating loop, the end is the start as she oscillates between what was and what is. Is she unable to escape her trauma and her psychological suffocation or patterning? The movement echoes the work of Pina Bausch, and in doing so draws links to the expression of the feminist landscape of emotion and conflict that we continue to work through.
This dance mocap performance explores fantastical interaction and embodiment beyond the humanoid avatar form, challenging and reimagining the normative and ableist ways the body is understood and represented through immersive technology.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023 - XR Experience Spotlight - World premiere
"Only when I was singing did I feel loved...to sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming."
In this experimental film, Maria Callas is transfigured in recordings of different performances - Norma, Tosca and Medea. The film is composed as an audio-visual ICONOSTASIS (a wall of icons) of different archive formats and newly shot footage.
MARIA is a transcendent experimental vision of an icon, artist and woman.
Christina, a British singer, arrives in Malta in 1937 to entertain the troops. She meets and falls deeply in love with daredevil RAF pilot, Warby, as the shadow of the Second World War draws ever closer to their island paradise. Based on a true story.
A bird called Memory has forgotten how to come back home. Lua, a trans woman, tries to find Memory in the streets, but the city can be a hostile place.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 - International Competition
A call-to-action short film that uses verbatim dialogue from disabled actors told from their lived experiences. The film unfolds through vignettes of the main characters, as we watch them smash stereotypes and reveal societal barriers, whilst breaking the fourth wall to reveal their inner most thoughts.
In Accra, Ghana - a group of young men have formed a brotherhood rooted in a unique combination of acrobatics, dance and fire breathing.
In lack of access to any formal training, they have developed their skills through internet tutorials and relentless practice sessions starting at 5am every morning. This troupe of highly-skilled performers have come to represent strength and positivity to their community, especially the youngsters they train and support with their earnings.
They call themselves The Dragon Boys.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
