Projects

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Three stop-frame animations made on the floor of my London flat using water, cardboard and home-made slime. Watermeadow, bog-eye & mudflats were made over a long period of time. The project was pulled together during successive pandemic lock-downs whilst imagining wide open marshland, swamps and mires of different kinds.

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A BANQUET is the much anticipated feature debut from Ruth Paxton. A visually arresting slowburning psychological horror that uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family possessed by a daughter's illness when she stops eating, exploiting the strains and the love between three generations of mothers and daughters. Widowed mother Holly (Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat, but loses no weight. In an agonising dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Discovery - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult

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A SPELL FOR WORNINGTON GREEN was shot on Wornington Green Estate in North Kensington and told from the perspective of estate resident, Natasha Langridge. It follows the hatching and flight of pigeons and the subsequent community protest to prevent the felling of 35 trees as a consequence of urban regeneration.

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An ugly moment in a Berlin bar knocks Yasmina from her usual path and launches us into a series of encounters in a precarious world, beyond the neon and the billboards. Inspired by Schnitzler’s 19th century play, Reigen (La Ronde), ATOMEN careers through the everyday lives and dilemmas of our characters, laying bare the alienation and disenfranchisement, and at the same time the longing for love and connection, even if the pursuit of this almost always fails….. In this world, this world of late capitalism, where faith is lost, and truth is lost, and all are told to only care for themselves, how do people root themselves, find meaning, find enough hope to make life worth living – a life, as Freud said, of ordinary unhappiness, rather than extraordinary alienation?

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Set in a familiar near-future, a young couple with Down’s syndrome must overcome prejudice and danger, in order to try and save the AI baby they want to adopt. The film exposes the disposability of disability.

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Another Christmas at Small Birds Singing and another disappointment for Spandisman. Join the fun with the Unbelievable family, Consommé, Delphinium and Hurtle as Spandy tries to make next Yuletide the best one ever!

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A surreal short animation film about Thomas, a boy who becomes addicted to eating ants – despite the warnings of his parents. Narrated in verse, the work playfully explores themes such as childhood rebellion and addiction. Official Selection Hiroshima Animation Season 2022

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A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2021 - World premiere Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Documentary Competition

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A caustic online streamer’s anarchic behaviour triggers a non-stop nightmare. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Midnight Madness - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Cult

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A mixed-race woman applies for a job as a costume wearer, only to find nothing fits.

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At the height of Europe’s spring Covid wave in 2021, the filmmaker Lucy Darwin offered to drive the actor and national treasure Miriam Margolyes from her home in Italy to London so that she could film the latest series of Call The Midwife.

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Two brothers embark on a journey with their father, who is trying to protect them from an alien threat. Official Selection Telluride Film Festival 2021 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2021 - Special Presentations Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Thrill