A classic interview with Helen Mirren from 1975 is performed as a song by Kathryn Elkin, backed by a choir of associates and friends whom she corrals into chanting in loose harmony.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - World premiere
In 1919, a tea lady eavesdrops on a top secret government meeting called to solve the latest, gravest problem facing the British Empire... A satirical comedy which wryly suggests that today’s obsession with female appearance was borne out of one official government meeting.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Laugh Strand
In an unnamed city above the Arctic Circle, in the far north of Russia a narrator, ostensibly the filmmaker, retraces her journey to the city, talking to the images. She tells of her encounters and her recollections of what happened after her visit, between the time of filming and the time of her telling. However, she is aware that the images like her own memories of moving through the city cannot be trusted to provide any certainty about what was happening, what she saw, what she felt and what it meant. Like memories, they shuffle around in one’s mind, play tricks, taking on a life of their own.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
Holidays to Leysdown-on-Sea are not what we remember as this family reminisces over the good times.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Journey Strand
Down in Pussy Willow a challenging conversation is happening between two generations.
A satirical animated comedy web series set in the fictional town Pussy Willow, which celebrates queer, feminist and absurdist themes. Using real actors with animated worlds it is a portrayl of contemporary Britain.
A journey through a sugary wonderland, following a boy and his mother as they wander through a frozen forest, meeting a bear, wolves. Wandering through magical white landscapes there are moments of danger and wonder. All ending in a mothers hug and a sugar cube.
A celebration of queer figures in both historical and contemporary times who have helped push forward arts, politics or science.
A collaboration between 14 animators, the structure is based on the old Surrealist drawing game Exquisite Corpses.
Inspired by a heart-breaking true story, 'The Climb' quietly explores the concept of feeling connected to someone you have lost by immersing yourself in something they love. The painful act of remembering by doing.
Angie, a desperate woman is forced to a dark place to seek the help of an enigmatic being. Both of them seek a future. It will all come down to the flick of a coin.
An exploration into the material agency of images and of forms. Shot on the volcanic island of Lanzarote, the film’s images are eruptions willed into existence by the creative act of the molten rock, the amorphous landscape dissolving subjectivity into itself.
Ventilator is set in two locations in Scotland; a derelict ventilation system on a rooftop in the city of Glasgow and a beach on the Ayrshire coast. This short experimental video comprises of a mixture of animation and filmed work, with the two protagonists- a woman and a masked, distorted man, encountering and being encountered by a variety of objects, mundane and foreign, many with motive-force of their own. The film is edited to be fragmentary and non-linear, with scenes dissolving and elements collapsing and bleeding into one another. Land art, totemic heads, and the repeated emergence and disintegration of masks throughout the piece represents not a cryptography for the audience to decipher, but an invitation to engage within the ‘logic of sensation’.
