Projects with status: Complete

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Iona and her teenage son seek refuge from a violent crime among a religious community on the island where she was born. Iona's return exposes her tormented son Bull to a way of life she rejected when she left the island as a teenager and sends a shock wave through the family she left behind. Scott Graham's follow up to his award-winning first feature Shell.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A film which aims to opens up a discourse on the Black British experience; interrupting the emotional transition between generations and questioning what it means to be British

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Eight-year-old Rose challenges a family in denial by setting out to find her mythical dying mother. A road movie taken on foot.
An intimate portrait of a family struggling to come to terms with their future, dramatizing an epic human dilemma. When time is running out for us, the environment and future generations, what choices of the heart must we make? What values do we cultivate?
Venice Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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A well known 35mm blockbuster trailer is cut up, dismantled,
reassembled and re-edited with tape and scissors. Printed by
torchlight and developed in a bucket… an impossible film.

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Set in Egypt, Greece, Italy and the US, Anja Kirschner's piece reflects on the way psychological, historical and material realities are connected through the prism of the filmmaking progress itself.
Its main protagonists - a director and a screenwriter are in the early stages of developing a commercial feature film, but soon their own conflicting desires and the events simultaneously occurring around them, take them far beyond their initial intentions. Forced to radically reconfigure her project, the director becomes more and more drawn into conversations with the actors she has cast, which centre on the way cinema intersects with their own lives and gives expression to the realities they are confronted with.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - Experimenta Strand

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Talking genitals discuss masturbation, sexuality and vaginas in this intimate documentary. A range of people share their insecurities and desires and each voice is visualised by a different animator. A collaboration of self-expression.

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George is suddenly thrust into a nightmare he can't escape. Now confronted with a difficult choice and relentlessly involving his friend Henry, they both have to decide on what move they make next.

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Harrison, a nice guy with a history of schizophrenia, battles the diverse and unpredictable voices he hears, a judgemental society and the hazards of social media as he attempts to make a new friend.

As a coping mechanism, he projects the voices into some of his childhood toys. These nagging, amusing, plain-spoken and occasionally disturbing voices are consistently unhelpful, especially when Harrison tries unorthodox methods in order to meet his ideal candidate for a new friend – the modelesque aspiring actress and social media addict, Amber.

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Six Portraits of Clara Schumann resolves into perhaps the oldest multiple we know.

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Daniel Fawcett's SPLENDOR SOLIS is a twin screen cine-poem that has been compiled from footage filmed over 17 years. It features everything from home movies, unfinished films, video diaries, video experiments, filmed performances and behind the scenes footage.

This loosely chronological cinematic wandering charts a journey in which filmmaking is used as a tool for personal exploration of inner and outer worlds, where cinema becomes an arena for rituals of self-discovery, healing and transformation. SPLENDOR SOLIS is a personal celebration of cinema, creativity, play, collaboration, friendship and all the splendours under the sun.

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The Cusp of Your Credenza is a wandering speculation through various material encounters. A woman presents a number of scenarios that involve the ingestion or ejection of substances. From toenails to statuary, muffins to monuments, The Cusp of Your Credenza wonders how we place ourselves bodily in a material world.

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Enter a landscape of curious subtle enchantment, where sentient shadows brood and magic shines resplendent in streams of illuminated water.