Bodies of water are intervened upon, moved, disrupted and exploited. Labouring bodies experience similar pressures from the same forces of power and extraction. Distant communities – Northern England and Jamaica – share similar histories of manipulation and oppression whose record is kept in the living memory of its waterways. But water, like people, can find a way to exert its own will.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2025 - World premiere
Plunging us into the ever-accelerating rhythm of food supply and the emergence of new techno-capitalist processes, BLISS POINT looks at the entanglement of automation and human labour, from dark kitchens and food advertising sets to AI-managed warehouses.
Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024
Project video for ‘How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car’, a game installation that challenges people to cross the street without being detected by an AI.
Official Selection Ars Electronica Festival 2024 - S+T+ARTS Prize 2024, Honorary Mention
FRAMERATE: Rhythms Around Us bears witness to the flux of life on earth. Surrounded by shifting pointcloud landscapes, submerged in sound, we scale our perspective. Together we see the beautiful, creative, and destructive forces of nature and humanity. We are a part of this rhythm, we contribute to the cacophony, we are in sync, and we catastrophically collide with the beating pulse of our planet.
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2024 - Tribeca Immersive - World premiere
At 80 years old, Libby Houston still scales the 300-foot cliffs of Bristol's Avon Gorge to investigate rare plants. But as it stands, there's only one known member of her namesake discovery - Houston’s Whitebeam - and reflecting on its inevitable extinction prompts Libby to contemplate her own legacy.
Through tragic loss and discovery, this is the story of her life’s entanglement with the environment.
An experimental short: a dark comedy satire combined with a music video: In 2044, humanity subsists on ‘Manna-Moolah’ extracted from an asteroid which is now hurtling towards Earth. With hours before impact, Victor tries to get his mentor, Professor Pokus onboard a ship and leave Earth before it’s too late.
When their genius child CHAD takes a homework assignment a little too far, Mum and Dad suddenly find themselves embroiled in an urgent mission to save the planet.
Throw away all common sense and tap into your madness as you follow Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian - a London-based artist and educator of Armenian and Algerian descent - on a fascinating journey to build a new civilization on the moon. Along with her doppelgängers, Myriam and Lucia, Nelly challenges us to defy power structures and reject planetary exploitation by letting go of the constraints of borders, gender, and religion to embrace what diversity could be in the vast landscape of our imaginations. Prior to their mission, Nelly and her parallel version of self speak with a wide-ranging collection of experts. There’s an LGBTQ+ rights activist, an astronomer, a political scientist, an archaeologist who also makes wine, a theoretical physicist, an environmental designer, a horror filmmaker, and a mathematical economist. They are all crucial to their quest to uncover the key to a queer, eco-feminist future devoid of generational trauma, colonization, and imperialism. However, as the analog space mission takes unexpected turns, the future remains as uncertain as the condition of Schrödinger’s Cat.
Featuring the music of Pussy Riot and Colin Self.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection Munich Film Festival 2024 - European premiere
In a future drained of colour where energy credits are the new currency, a zero credit balance leaves one man with no option but to physically power his ailing husband’s hospital treatment. But as his energy fades, so does the possibility of a future together.
When the water company and local authorities fail the community, the wild swimmers of Bristol fight back through activism, swimming like a mermaid and getting married.
Do humans have the right to nature? In this tender film, director Charlotte Sawyer tells a story of a community of wild swimmers in Bristol (UK) affected by raw sewage pollution of the river Avon. England is one of the only two countries in the world to have a fully privatised water and sewage disposal system, and with only 14% of English rivers in good ecological health, the mission to keep the rivers clean is not going well.
In a series of moving, exciting and thought-provoking scenes, the swimmers create a stunning, light-hearted yet fascinating tapestry, probing how activism starts from the grassroots, and carries a profound universal lesson for all of us. There’s a wedding, drum’n’bass, an inflatable turd, and a whole lot of cheesecake in this poignant reflection on people’s innovative battles for the natural world they cherish.
In near future rural Somerset, recently 're-educated' Anna wants to be a happily married woman but the arrival of a troupe of travelling players on the farm tests her beliefs to the limit.
APOLLO THIRTEEN: SURVIVAL is a visceral archive-led, cinematic re-telling of an iconic space story. In April 1970, NASA faced the greatest crisis in its history; three astronauts halfway to the moon on a spacecraft that had suffered a catastrophic explosion. This iconic space story is brought to life with rare access to the complete recordings of the Apollo 13 mission, alongside archival interviews with the crew, their families and members of ground control.
As the spacecraft haemorrhages critical power and oxygen supplies, our approach immerses the audience in the unfolding drama of the crisis; from inside the spaceship, at mission control and within the families' homes. What transpired was one of the great survival stories in human history. A triumph of ingenuity, teamwork and human resilience as the world watched. Waited. Held its collective breath.
Official selection - CPH:DOX 2024 Special Premieres - World premiere
