Projects with status: Complete

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A couple visit a holiday home, where they re-enact scenes of powerplay and desire from classic films. Conversations and tensions explore their dynamic and how they relate to cinematic representations.

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A bowling alley, a gallery, a studio, a pregnancy and a pop song. Kathryn Elkin tackles, with her usual sense of humour, issues around labour, creation, biography, being an artist and the transforming pregnant body. QUEEN was conceived and shot during the artist’s pregnancy and first months of parenthood.
Official Selection Visions du Réel 2019 - International Competition - World premiere

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On a magical night, a woman creates her ideal man, but all is not as straightforward as she hoped.

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Robert McQueen's day takes a turn for the worse when he is held hostage and accused by three vengeful husbands of sleeping with their wives.

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Traditional Chinese art forms including ink wash painting and ceramics are used to represent and rethink Red China.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Perspectives Short Film Competition

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A stop-motion animated thriller set in a world where deer are the dominant species. An alpha male deer goes for an evening car ride and has an unfortunate accident, triggering a chain of events with dire consequences for the victim.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Cinéfondation - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Cult Strand

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Following a 21-year-old artist suffering from a various mental disorders, including severe perfectionism, she will do up to 10 copies of her work, often throwing it away. After a week of practice with a tattoo gun, will she be able to tattoo someone for the first time?

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During sleep and cornered by the lack of meaning a reluctant hedgehog creates a puzzle that can't be solved. But even within the dream the hedgehog is neither able to let it go nor to solve it and stubbornly tries to make sense of the absurdity...

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Sex education. Awkward memories, right? Boys and girls separated, a flustered teacher, the bare biological facts and a dose of shame.
In the Netherlands, they do things differently. Children from the age of four learn to talk about their bodies and sexuality in an open and frank manner.
This documentary observes a diverse group of pre-teens from Amsterdam, having a candid conversation about their changing bodies with an inspiring teacher. This isn’t just a sex ed class, this is an anti-shame class.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand

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An invitation to the meal of your dreams. But will it remain a dream, forever out of reach? Drawing on mythological archetypes, the project turns a fine dining experience into a playful exploration of the destructive nature of our appetite and our debt to pleasure.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - New Frontier Exhibitions - World premiere

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THE EXPULSION a deeply personal work crafted from the imagination of Larry Achiampong. The short film highlights the rich interior world of an unnamed migrant with references to themes of race, class and gender. In this work, the artist invokes the energy and memories of a pre-gentrified 1990s east London. The film deftly weaving testimonies and daydreams with the monotonous rhythms of physical labour and the weight of frustrating consumerist aspirations in the city’s West End.
Shot in 4k resolution, THE EXPULSION’s lyrical script, undulating visuals and hypnotic original score connect an ever-present past to current concerns of societal iniquity, class ceilings and erased histories.

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At the audition, Maya loses track of who she's performing for and why.