Projects in genres: Woman Director

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Mute Swan is a film about social rejection, indentity crisis and sexuality.

The story focuses on Benny, a shy, reclusive, lonely young man, who feels out of place, uncomfortable, otherworldly among his friends and family. His efforts to interact with anyone are limp.

The film intends to explore the beauty and subtly of ambiguity.

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A female gure tells us the possible journeys of gures in this gothic space, playing all the parts of girl, bride, woman.

A dress is stolen, returned, rebuffed. A dialogue of rising and falling, returning and escape.

This is Not Jane.

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When Jodie's brother Brian is convicted of indecently assaulting a five year old, she is thrust out of the sheltered world they have shared since their childhood. Their once close relationship becomes claustrophobic and strained as they face his imprisonment.

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A young woman returns home to visit her mother and finds her subtly changed. A short film about love and memory loss.

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The Bedlamites are a group of fell runners who organise races up some of the most well-known and beautiful peaks in and around Yorkshire, UK. But these runners don't meet on a clear sunny day at the weekend or on a summer's evening. These races are run in winter, sometimes through thick fog and rain, on grassy, uneven and slippery terrain and during the night.

Under the cover of darkness they meet to race up and down the Fells using only torches to guide them over the harsh terrain in severe weather conditions.
Through this film we hope to transport the audience into this black and white world of nighttime, off-road running where moonlight and a chilly wind reveal the landscape in a very different way; where the snaking of lights up hillsides provide a luminous spectacle and where the narrow spread of the torchlight gives each runner a focus to drive them on up the hill.

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Emptiness is wistfully transformed in 99 Clerkenwekll road as the remnants of an empty shop provide the makings of an abstract light-film cum toy-solar-system.

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Cinedrome is a mockumentary about a fictitious disease, cinedrome. After exposure to certain films, sufferers become infected by aspects of these films. In this way, film is able to infect audience members. Marie has 'lost her continuity', Godfrey suffers from 'soundtracki-itis' and Chris has contracted 'animania'.

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Based on the life of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, Fulll Firearms presents the story of Imelda, a woman haunted by the victims of the guns sold in her father’s company. She uses her inheritance to work with an architect who builds a house for these ghosts. When a group of people squat her half finished building Imelda is convinced that they are the ghosts that she expected.

The narrative touches upon themes of displacement and storytelling, and stands in the tradition of melodrama. The characters find themselves constantly having to adjust their expectations of each other so that they might be able to communicate within each other’s logic. In her films, Emily Wardill creates situations that examine conditions of precarity in society and how these affect people’s relationships with each other. Her films are fostered by improvisations and workshop sessions, that are set up by the artist to develop themes and characters in a collaborative manner.

“The house in the film produces an echo, because those who occupy it articulate their voices in relation to the making and writing of a history. Tracing the echoes of actions through the production of social spaces does not remain solely within the diegesis of the film. Instead, it extends to the exchange initiated by Wardill with her collaborators as they produce a film together, and also attempt to implicate the viewer in a film that is also a body – one that is constantly living and growing.” - Jacob Korczynski, 2011

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Newly homeless, Gracie is about to commit suicide. But at the last moment, as she hovers over the railings of Waterloo Bridge, a young woman, Ellie, runs onto the bridge. She begs Gracie to help her escape from a pursuer who’s just yards behind. Shocked out of her dark purpose, Gracie helps Ellie, and they escape. Walking the empty streets, Gracie thinks the threat is past and a tentative relationship begins between the girls. But as she finds out more about Ellie, Gracie realises just how vulnerable they still are.

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Getting dumped always hurts. Even more so when your boyfriend sends his fourteen-year-old brother to break the news.

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A poetic study in movement and sound, this film takes you on a journey to the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness to experience the ancient practice of reindeer herding or ‘husbandry’.

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Lou may have Down’s Syndrome but is more than capable of looking after herself. She lives with her controlling sister Ashley, who always gets what she wants. When a new man comes into their lives, the sisters become love rivals, bringing their relationship to a head.