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
The remarkable true story behind the ground-breaking birth of Louise Joy Brown in 1978, the world’s first ‘test-tube-baby’, and the tireless 10-year journey it took to make it possible. Told through the perspective of Jean Purdy, a young nurse and embryologist, who joined forces with scientist Robert Edwards, and surgeon Patrick Steptoe to unlock the puzzle of infertility by pioneering in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The film celebrates the power of perseverance and the wonders of science as it follows this maverick trio of visionaries who overcame tremendous odds and opposition to realise their dream, and in doing so allowed millions of people to dream with them.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Broke salesman Henry is living in his car when he finds out his wealthy grandfather's left him everything in his will. But to claim the estate, Henry must cut off one of his legs with a hacksaw...which his grandfather's kindly provided.
During the Blitz of World War Two, 10-year-old Harry Hawkesworth roller skates through Gloucestershire delivering messages for the Air Raid Patrol, while Italian prisoners of war work the local fields.
MARMALADE tells the story of Harry Hawkesworth’s experience during the Second World War, as a 10-year-old messenger boy for his local Air Raid Patrol. Now 95 years old, Harry is interviewed by his grandson, photographer Jamie Hawkesworth, for his debut film. He mentions biscuits, marmalade, and recollects the Italian prisoners of war he met who worked the land in his hometown of Tuffly, Gloucestershire. The film gracefully weaves the past and present together through Jarvis Cocker’s mesmerising score.
A genre-bending love story set in the very near future with a darkly comic edge.
Loretta, a working-class British Asian woman, attempts to navigate a turbulent world, a new stranger in her life and unskippable adverts.
A work of speculative cinematic writing, the film is about war and displacement, architecture and place-making. It tells the fragmented biography of the so-called Rock Church, an iconic building in Helsinki and its architects who were excluded from the canon of Finnish modernism. The architects' personal history of displacement due to the Finnish Winter War of 1939 and Soviet occupation is braided with the war on present-day Gaza.
Past and present histories, temporalities and geographies fold into, and over one another collapsing time, place and identities narratively to consider, in the gentlest of tones, the impact of atrocities on contemporary lifeworlds.
A mother, father and their eight year old son set from the suburbs of London to cycle to the South Coast.
What the child experiences on that journey changes his life forever.
Exploring loss and grief through dementia and symbolising the mind's internal structures. We follow the Watchman as he cares for his memories and nurtures new ideas until an environmental deterioration forces him to escape through the window.
After everyone else has left for the weekend, detention and science club students find themselves trapped together, and when an internet hate group lays siege to the school, the unlikely allies unite in order to survive.
Jess and her husband need a new start, so when the chance to buy a rambling old house comes up, they leap at it. But not everyone in Suffolk is welcoming. The locals know a secret about the Maple House, and soon, Jess realises they've made a huge mistake. Something bad happened in that house. Something nobody wants to talk about.
A director in search of a subject for his documentary suffers various problems, with his project becoming more and more irrational. Is it an art film? A film within a film? Or just one big filmic nervous breakdown...
