Projects

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Filmed at the Demilitarized Zone on the border between North and South Korea, the work 38TH PARALLEL seeks to portray the particular reality of this contested site. It is a reality marked by an eerie sense of latency. Constantly alert, constantly inert, North and South face each other in a stalemate situation sealed by a cease-fire agreement 55 years ago. In her video, Davies operates in this void. Working with the United Nations Armistice Commission and the United States Armed Forces in Korea, she shows how political reality manifests itself here, beyond representation, in the ways how space is structured and time is regimented in this militarized environment. Facing each other across the turnpike, for instance, border guards of both sides execute the silent ceremonies of authority proscribed by their military protocol. It’s choreography of empty gestures enacted on the stage of a deserted strip of land and bleak interrogation rooms. Davies then shows the local epicentre of conflict of global proportions to be a non-place where power manifests itself in ghostly acts of decorum performed in suspended time.

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A mixed media experiment, transforming sound and music into disquieting visibility.

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A bee gets in the way of a rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight Of The Bumblebee.

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A series of quick-fix solutions to problems of an emotional nature seen through the prism of immediate home renovation. The film shows how the unspoken takes on form, inflicts injury and is overcome.

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A live action documentary experimental film shot edited and perforned by Hastings (East Sussex) artists including the director Barbara Parise aka Lady Plush and Cosmic Bird official multidisciplinary artist. An avalanche of intrepid performances live music, dance and live acts!

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Language and property crumble in an exploration of the impact of coastal erosion on the people and landscape of North Norfolk. Concentrating on the small villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, the film combines interviews, field recordings and archive footage.

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A quirky little piece set in a hat shop during the Second World War. Jane Blank, struggles to rise above her natural class in order to keep up appearances. Exhausted from the pretentious dialogue and role play, ‘Madame Blanche’ is left questioning her duty to be true to herself.

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Black comedy taking us inside the mind of a female commuter who believes she's being followed home. But what is her follower thinking?

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In a Palestinian refugee camp a class of five-year-olds discuss their lives and the future whilst the camera floats from the centre of Beirut to the Israeli border; this is a reverse journey for the audience as they begin where the displaced Palestinians flight ended, and they end where the Palestinians began, in the occupied territories.

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Just before the World Cup '98 young Robbie plays out the coming match in his back garden, taking the penalty shootouts on behalf of both teams.

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A group of inspiring African teenagers brought illegally or trafficked into the UK overcome desperate situations and build new lives for themselves in London. The girls face deportation on their 18th birthdays under current Home Office rules. This film asks them what they long for and where they feel they belong.

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A small town, a growing knot and a girl searching for her identity.