Projects with status: Complete

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OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW bears witness to German artist Anselm Kiefer's alchemical creative processes and renders a film journey through the universe of Kiefer's studio estate, La Ribaute, in the South of France. This strange, sprawling village extending over 35 hectares combines working studios, a network of tunnels, caves, underground pools, a crypt and an amphitheatre. Shot in cinemascope, the film enters into direct contact with the materials Kiefer employs to build his works – lead, concrete, ash, acid, earth, glass and gold. Here creation and destruction are interdependent. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2010 - World premiere Official Selection Toronto Film Festival 2010

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Working for your festival ticket is hard, especially under the watchful eye of the Security Supervisor. The Gate is a short stopmotion animation which follows the journey of George as he works as a gate steward for his music festival ticket.

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Cadência is the second Brazilian documentary from director Daren Bartlett. Cadência builds an intimate picture of Brazilian football and its related cultures, divisions, traditions and what is the firm cohesion that creates the strong unified image Brazil projects to the world. The film's stunning cinematography immerses the viewer in the sights and sounds, the rhythm, the cadence of a city as it winds up for carnival, the biggest celebration of the year. Insightful and passionate commentary from the late Brazilian football legend Socrates, combined with academics, artists and last but not least the people, combine to make this a powerful and poignant documentary, simply a beautiful film.

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Façade re-transmits the flawed utopias and polarised theories suggested by Sergei Eisenstein’s unmade film 'The Glass House' into a fantastical vision of contemporary glass architecture far removed from its egalitarian origins. Narrated by Julia Somerville Façade casts 'glass' as a transparent subject rendered slowly opaque by the language it engenders.

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A surreal and dark comedic approach to the stock television detective drama which distills it down from standard 48 hours solve the crime to 140 seconds. Can they solve the strange murder before their time runs out?

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Daddyo thinks he has the best children in the world: his son Olly has his own business selling Persian carpets and beating up any customers who want refunds. His daughter Alice has problems with her boyfriend and ends up cutting him up. Little does Daddyo know he has the worst kids in London.

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Serendipity drives this quirky comedy about the romances and friendships of six Londoners. When Alex returns Kyle’s lost notebook, she falls head over heels and sets off a chain reaction that connects ex-loves, new loves and secret loves.

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“And indeed the question which was raised of old and is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, viz. what being is, is just the question, what is substance?”– Aristotle, Metaphysics VII,1028b 2-4. Flesh, blood, milk and meat are the subject of a film which tries to get inside “substance” via medieval imagery. An attempt to explore “what things are” through juxtaposing bestiary illuminations, Romanesque carvings, medieval bells and living things, throwing into relief the strangeness and violence of being

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‘It’ is created piece by piece, limb by limb, and then with a sudden ‘rush of gender’ takes the shape of an automaton disguised as a beautiful female Duenna sent on a mission into a courtly kingdom to mercilessly track down a prince and kill him. Although she is programmed to kill, she is also capable simultaneously of questioning this programation and it is this friction between the soul and the machine that keeps one suspended between belief and disbelief.

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A van driver is in a traffic jam caused by activists on a bridge doing a direct action against the G8. He's furious but when the action spirals out of control and lives are at stake will he be convinced to take action himself.

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A married man and his younger mistress head into the English countryside for a birthday picnic. As the afternoon progresses, events begin to take a disturbing turn.

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The story centers around four thirty-something guys who set out on their motorcycles, clocking up miles in an attempt to outrun their age and their middle-class lifestyles. One night they set up camp and reminisce over their wasted youth. The following morning they discover an ominous looking caravan parked nearby. Within minutes, an idiotic prank turns into kidnap, frightening brutality and a race for survival which not only poses a number of moral dilemmas but makes us question who the bad guys really are...