A film centred upon the dramatic and volatile landscape of Iceland; interfusing the cultural, political and ecological forces that shape the island. The film combines Iceland's remarkable terrain with two corresponding voice-overs from the past and present: poet W.H. Auden, reading ‘Journey to Iceland’ (1937), and environmental activist Ómar Ragnarsson.
A traumatised patient, trapped in a destructive relationship with her megalomaniac doctor, resorts to desperate measures to escape. Legal text and medical records interwoven with pulsing pills tell a story of addictive, emotional enmeshment.
Inspired by the iconic, 1916 Herbert James Gunn painting 'The Eve of the Battle of the Somme' 'The Big Push' combines original verse by renowned Scottish Poet John Glenday with evocative paint-on-glass animation to create an integrated, mixed-media triptych aimed at commemorating the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme through art, verse and animation.
How to Sound Design Your Life
The Foley Artist sees a master of sound at work on a fashion film. If you’ve ever wanted to see the chasm between the finished product and the extraordinary lengths taken to produce it, this short is for you.
Six-year-old Norah journeys into a magical land conjured within her imagination in order to save her mother from an unyielding, seemingly enchanted, sleep.
The day before turning thirteen, James is taken to the funfair by his mother – with his imaginary cowboy friend in tow. But, upon realising that his parents are less happy than suspected, James makes a difficult choice in order to be the young man soon needed by his family.
Taking inspiration from Felice Casorati's painting 'Eggs on a Book', photographers Metz+Racine and film director Mototake Makishima collaborated to create a 'still-life' short film. Set in Italy of the 1940's against a backdrop of political unrest, the film explores the mysterious world of objects and the enigmatic symbolism of eggs.
’Unseen: The Lives of Looking’ focuses on four individuals with a distinct relationship to looking - an eye surgeon, a planetary explorer, a human rights lawyer and an artist/filmmaker. Told through Dryden Goodwin’s closely observed drawings, camera work and multilayered soundtrack, it explores different scales, forms and reasons for looking, in a poetic and metaphysically charged journey. Revealing the empathy and dexterity of an eye surgeon, working with the fragile human eye; the quest of a NASA planetary explorer to decode the cosmos and find evidence of life on Mars; and the scrutiny of the British government, by a human rights lawyer, in extraordinary rendition, drone attack and mass surveillance cases. The film’s perspectives range from minute details to panoramic expanses, building an atmospheric and sensual matrix around its subjects. Goodwin includes fleeting vignettes of strangers and a brief focus on his father and son, highlighting the tension in his work between intimacy and anonymity. The film considers both the physical act of looking and how we perceive the world around us: how we contemplate the known and the unknown, the personal and the remote and the imaginative leaps taken to reveal what might be concealed or out of sight.
'Violet City' follows a wholesome young fellow - Flynn - on his quest to discover the truth about his mothers’ disappearance, unaware that his recently acquired violet eyes will lure all kinds of villainy to him, from crazed aristocrats to immortal, inter-dimensional beings. This is a story of love, betrayal, scurrilous ambition and an incredible quest for the truth, that takes Flynn through some dark and mysterious realms in search of both his mother and himself.
