Olo and Haldane live in a bedsit, cut off from the outside world. They happily amuse themselves acting out sinister role-play games. But when Haldane catches Olo spying on the real world, the game goes too far. Olo tells Haldane she doesn't want to play anymore. Haldane disagrees.
10 year old Carla dreams of becoming a gondolier like her father. However, 900 years of Venetian tradition and the disapproval of her parents stand in her way.
Twelve-year-old Ava visits her Aunt’s farm in the countryside. When she is reluctantly sent off to play with her menacing older cousin, Ava quickly discovers the devastating truth of why she is there. Ava carries out a shocking act of trust that leads the young girls to a new beginning.
The audio of this RSA short is of Dr Brené Brown who spoke at the RSA on The Power of Vulnerability. She talks about the difference between sympathy and empathy and argues that to be truly empathetic you have to be vulnerable by connecting with someone's pain in yourself.
An unapologetic conjunction of visual and auditory clichés, 'Urschrift' is a wry take on the forties American police procedural.
Screening history includes:
2015 The Films of Julia Dogra-Brazell Experiments in Cinema Film Festival, USA
2014 ALTERNATIVE Film/Video Festival, Academic Film Centre Belgrade
2014 Experimenta 58th BFI London Film Festival
2014 Australian International Experimental Film Festival
Animation made for a 48 hour film challenge to make a short film celebrating the chronological rehang of Tate Britain's British Art Collection in 2013.
'Date at Tate' had its first public screening in the auditorium at Tate Britain on 23 November, 2013.
When a couple with an ailing relationship go on a picnic to mend their crumbling relationship, a can of worms is opened when their four year old daughter is caught in a fight of jealousy and revenge in a serious case of mistaken identity.
A remote Scottish boarding school is home to Reg, a lonely and yearning teenage girl. The handsome chainsaw-wielding tree surgeon, and the sinister and unorthodox self-defence instructor, are the only men in this world. When Reg is required to fight in the woods, she knows what she must do.
A boy writes from Portugal to his sister, who lives in London. He writes one week before the 9th anniversary of their mother’s death, confessing that he wants to go back in time to remember her and the 25th of April 1974, the revolution day.
This short Anidoc was in response to the Light Princess production in Autumn 2013. Bringing documentary and 2D animation styles together we decided to interview a group of young dancers and hear their thoughts on being a Princess. What would they do as a Princess? Would they listen to the King who would be their Father?
A gentle film with moments of humour. You may be surprised by the answers by some of these young girls.
In Association with the National Theatre.
Towards a Militant Conceptualism is a short hybrid film dealing with the political capacity of art in the contemporary world. The film explores artist’s experiences of protest, confronting agents of the State and questioning the origins of law. This is an open argument on political activism and its effectiveness with the proposition of art as a form of protest.
