Projects

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Once there was a taxidermist whose collection was his life; and what his life lacked most, he decided, was a Lady. But the Lady in question had other ideas. This campy gothic fairytale hides a sly analogy about how we objectify each other in the post-Tinder world of online dating.

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Nobirds are the “no birds” that sing in Keats’s 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'. The poem is re-imagined as a computer game where the “knight at arms” and the “belle dame” might win one another if they make the right choices. Real birds as negative images haunt their quest.

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Bold, suave and enigmatic—exactly what Ian is not. But if this oddball café regular learns the mother tongue of the waitress aneta, maybe he can convince her otherwise.

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An alternative reality scenario where a group of animals has become organised and are committed to make themselves heard by humans, guerrilla style. The film is a surrealist take on human responsibility over climate change and on our inescapable connection with nature. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition

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A fairy tale with a magic realist twist, it centres on a mix of emotions and ideas around love, community, isolation and family. Based on a short story, written with the English north-east coast in mind, and in our sometime awful world sets out to be deliberately hopeful.

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A surrealist re-imagining of THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES in the north of England. Filmmaker Francesca Levi combines archival and found footage to create a speculative vision of the seaside town of Blackpool, one which is both unsettling and curiously nostalgic. Commissioned as part of Live Cinema UK's The Unfilmables project, the film features a score composed by Oscar-nominated musician Mica Levi. Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019

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The Inland Sea is a meditative journey into the mind of a female victim of domestic abuse.

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A mysterious pig disappearance brings chaos to a small town.

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A short animated documentary about what it means to be conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially intelligent; using hand drawn techniques to explore the human tendency to anthropomorphise simple drawings, and how we might do the same to machines. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition

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Exploring the fusion of D/deaf and disabled performers with the extravagant world of vogue culture. Fittings Multimedia Arts formed a “House” of Deaf performers to walk in the Legendary House of Suarez Vogue Ball and the process - from auditions to performance - was recorded as a celebration of diversity.

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In a hinterland within the 'elsewhere', a lone character meanders in search of meaning and understanding. Hither and dither doth he wander reflecting upon all things that came before and all things hereafter. This work is a companion piece to Andrew Kotting's feature film LEK AND THE DOGS and was shot in the Atacama desert in Chile. Produced to run on a loop in a gallery 'space' the film exemplifies Kotting's ability to take an idea and run with it until it spills over into the expanded cinematic 'elsewhere'. With the beguiling presence of French performance artist Xavier Tchili and sublime cinematography by Nick Gordon-Smith the work is designed to be experienced within the pitch black and the sound up high.

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A fully hand drawn and painted visualisation of the daily thoughts and worries on my mind as they interlink with the playful sounds of a record to conjure a new journey based somewhere underneath actual events. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition