Projects

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In 1848, Phineas Gage suffers an unspeakable brain injury when a tamping rod plunges through his skull, causing dramatic shifts in his personality. His physician Dr Harlow watches over his recovery and must choose whether or not to fight for this outcasts place in the local community.

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Wandering loner Ray tries to track down his estranged ex-partner and teenage daughter so his dying father can see her one last time. Comedy ensues when, disguised in an outfit he sought from a charity clothing bank, realises his daughter, and her mother, have built a new life with his former PE teacher.

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The last hour of Faustus. Adapted from: 'The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe

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A man stuck in his endless loneliness wanders in a post-apocalyptic world... Only to discover he is not alone.

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Gloucestershire, 1796. A poor day labourer is offered work but must first let his son be used in a medical experiment. Based on the story of James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy used by Dr Edward Jenner to test the world’s first smallpox vaccine.

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The fragile balance of a society ruled by individualism is about to collapse with the promise of the crash of an asteroid on the giant distraction machine that the world is.

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Peter (Dir. Jane Topping, 2014) seeks to re-frame what is considered a classic of dystopian cinema (Blade Runner, 1982, dir. Ridley Scott) with the intention of positioning the artist within the text. Peter manipulates found footage and narrative voice in order to reveal difficulties of viewer identification when watching Blade Runner.

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Rio 50 Degrees is the story of how a city, with the help of its musicians and their music, discovered its liberty, its voice and its soul. It is the story of Rio de Janeiro and the part the music played in its re-democratisation and recovery, as it positions itself as a city fit for the 21st century.

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A psychedelic ambient horror/thriller. Joe returns home from a mysterious absence to discover his wife has taken in an equally mysterious lodger.

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Set entirely inside a shopping centre, SYSTEM follows the interactions between two sisters; one anxious about her personal safety, the other concerned with the invisible threat of infection. The sterile atmosphere of the environment quickly becomes menacing as the women’s personal safety systems begin to fail.

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A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has a few moments to figure out how he got there. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014 - World premiere

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This short documentary meditates on the last remaining farmer from a once thriving agricultural hillside in Yorkshire. With none of his three children wanting to take over the business, Carson Lee ruminates on his commitment to his working life during difficult times and the fast changing landscape around him.