Dina lives in a remote village high in the Georgian mountains where traditions have remained the same for centuries. Her marriage has been arranged but when handsome Gegi returns from war, she falls in love with him and they elope. Four years later Dina is estranged from her family but lives happily with Geigi and their child. Then Gigi is tragically killed. In traditional Svaneti culture a widow must marry the first man who asks for her hand, so when Girshel proposes, Dina is forced to leave her home and little boy behind forever. However, when Moses falls deathly ill, Girshel fights through the treacherous winter snow to get the life saving medicine. In the end Dina’s, along with Girshel, defies years of tradition and takes her child with her back to Ushguli.
Emmott and Rowland were sweethearts whose romance played out in the village of Eyam during the Plague of 1665/1666. Theirs was a sad and romantic tragedy, which has captured the imagination of those who read about it over the following hundreds of years.
“My humble model for progress is the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what is lost.” (Graham Swift, Waterland)
This film piece responds to the environment of the Fens, exploring an artificial landscape that exists only because of human intervention. Filmed over one day, it records bridges over a dike which carries water away from farmland to the river the Great Ouse.
Official Selection Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2018 - International Competition
A revision of the Aba Women’s War, the first major anti-colonial uprising in Nigeria, using embodiment, gesture and the archive.
The film is structured around the repurposing of archival films from the British propaganda arm, The Colonial Film Unit, cut against a gestural evocation of the women’s testimonies. 'Her Name in My Mouth' invokes the artist's own female ancestors in this filmic revocation of the Aba Women’s War that privileges the body as a site of knowledge.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - International premiere
A young woman struggles to recover from an ex-lover's attack. Escaping through books and imagination, she wanders around her favorite park to seek solace.
A husband and wife in a dwindling marriage spend the night together in a Love Hotel as a desperate attempt to regain the intimacy in their relationship. Only for the wife to discover she has lost her wedding ring inside the rectal cavity of her husband.
Told entirely using projected animation onto polystyrene film sets, the film follows the story of a mother and her infant child who are forced to leave their home when mysterious, dark shadows envelop the light in which they exist.
25-year-old Natia goes back to Georgia, to see her grandma, Natela, after her grandad’s death two months before. Natia sparks a story, which unravels an intense internal conflict that portrays and characterises the situation and traditions in some regions of Georgia.
