Projects with status: Complete

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Effects maestro turned director delivers a masterful short. An eel thrashes around in his undersized tank - as its form rapidly outgrows its environment, its angry mutation reaches monstrous proportions. Hailstone's eerie imagination runs riot in this seminal organic horror short.

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You used to have to make an effort to overhear other people's conversations, now you have to make an effort not to. The Intimacy of Strangers is a story of life, love, loss and hope - entirely constructed out of real, overheard mobile phone conversations of random strangers.

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In 2005 the Municipal Chamber of Manaus (Brazil) decided to investigate the causes of the lack of water in town, managed by Suez: diseases linked to the use of non-treated water are increasing in, a lot of families queue before wells, some others have to deal with astronomical bills.  

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An authored comedy documentary about what becoming a brown bloke with a beard reveals to the filmmaker about Britain after the July 2005 London bombings. Part of BBC3's 'Mischief' strand.

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At 21 miles wide and very, very cold, the English channel is regarded by the world over as one of the ultimate swimming challenges. Achieving such a goal can push both mind and body to their limits, and sometimes beyond.

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In the aftermath of a decision impossible to reverse, political debate is submerged in an ambient world of photoshoot, marimba and birdsong.

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The poem Kissing in hats is a villanelle, a verse form where the regular repetition of two key lines gives added urgency to what is being said. The effect is intensified here by double tracking of the speaker's voice, as a moving path scans a drawing of World War Two lovers kissing in hats before the men must board their train. This is a new version with the text of the poem on screen.

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Growing up inside the spectacle of perfect illusions, a child model embarks on a journey inside a labyrinth formed from her advertising pictures. Looking through the mirror of technology, she glimpses the stellar course of her mystery and unveils the secret project of photography… HD live-action and 3D / 2D CGI composited video.

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Diana’s home and café business are at risk from coastal erosion. Everything she has worked for all her life could fall off a cliff at any moment. Here she tells the story of her fight to save her home and business from destruction.

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A solitary figure emerges out of seclusion to learn an ice-skating dance sequence. Set in a disorientating arena of shifting boundaries, structures and languages, the lessons are not going well… Mixed media including 3D CGI, live action, compositing and puppetry.

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An upside-down time-lapse camera moves along a beach, inverting the sand and sky as the weather changes. The result is a disorienting and mysterious space where the originally solid ground at the top of the frame appears to be sliding past like a lava-stream. 16mm time-lapse photography.

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A vivid imagination can be a seductive but debilitating distraction from life. Twisted fantasies, associations and flashbacks offer an enticing escape, and even a mundane room may be made more bearable by mentally morphing space and time. But the real world continues, demanding, undermining, overwhelming… Elaborate Flash drawn animation subtly enhanced in compositing programs.