Projects in genres: Woman Director

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An informal interview with Turner Prize winner British artist Grayson Perry prior the opening of his groundbreaking exhibition Unpopular Culture at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. Here he talks about his impressions, opinions and reasons for selecting the artworks from the Art Council collection contained in this distinctive show. Produced by Plush Prodcutions Limited in collaboration with De La Warr Pavilion and Arts Council Of England.

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Performance film, The Challenge night show. With live acts, dance, live music, jamming and more. Filmed at the Masonic Hall, Hastings/St Leonards, East Sussex

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Filmed on location in the US, Europe and Southern Africa, The Hunger Season tells the story of a young teacher called Justice and the children in his care living in the heart of rural Swaziland as they struggle to survive a year of drought and diminishing food handouts.

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Filmed at the Demilitarized Zone on the border between North and South Korea, the work 38TH PARALLEL seeks to portray the particular reality of this contested site. It is a reality marked by an eerie sense of latency. Constantly alert, constantly inert, North and South face each other in a stalemate situation sealed by a cease-fire agreement 55 years ago. In her video, Davies operates in this void. Working with the United Nations Armistice Commission and the United States Armed Forces in Korea, she shows how political reality manifests itself here, beyond representation, in the ways how space is structured and time is regimented in this militarized environment. Facing each other across the turnpike, for instance, border guards of both sides execute the silent ceremonies of authority proscribed by their military protocol. It’s choreography of empty gestures enacted on the stage of a deserted strip of land and bleak interrogation rooms. Davies then shows the local epicentre of conflict of global proportions to be a non-place where power manifests itself in ghostly acts of decorum performed in suspended time.

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A live action documentary experimental film shot edited and perforned by Hastings (East Sussex) artists including the director Barbara Parise aka Lady Plush and Cosmic Bird official multidisciplinary artist. An avalanche of intrepid performances live music, dance and live acts!

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A group of inspiring African teenagers brought illegally or trafficked into the UK overcome desperate situations and build new lives for themselves in London. The girls face deportation on their 18th birthdays under current Home Office rules. This film asks them what they long for and where they feel they belong.

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A small town, a growing knot and a girl searching for her identity.

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Six disparate strangers escape a cataclysmic explosion which could be mankind's final act of self- destruction and retreat to an old manor house. Trapped within their haven, it rapidly becomes a prison and before long the small fraction threatens to repeat the mass destruction which has preceded events within their own fragile group.    

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A portrayal of an elderly woman’s grief and her memories of intimate moments.

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A young boxer arrives in a desolate town where he meets a dog, a stranger and a mysterious waitress. Graham is on a journey, but where will it take him?

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Set in a typical East London high street during an atypical hot, dry, English summer. After the rain is a love story, between neighbours Lian and Adrian, who suffer from surreal compulsive obsessive disorders. Lian, a Chinese waitress, evaporates when she cries, only coming back with the rain; while Adrian, the laundry man, coughs feathers in times of anxiety. As their worlds and disorders collide, we watch Lian and Adrian’s initial suspicion and distaste of one another give way to understanding, friendship and love. Tonally, After the Rain is a surreal comedy, addressing themes of love, ecology, racism and ignorance.

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Arachne is taken from Ovid's myth of a young girl who is metamorphosed into a spider. Within the web, stories are told of human life. Drawing is used to recreate the act of spinning.