Projects matching: Ben Young

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The alien cosmos of microscopy becomes the setting for a posthumous dialogue: an exploration of the unspoken fallout of the pandemic years.

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An intimate observation of Rainbow Mbuangi, a key player for Merseyside Blind Football Club. The film embeds itself within Mbuangi's daily life, documenting the structured routines, intensive training, and social world that orbit his athletic pursuits. Through a rigorous focus on sound - both the necessities of his off-field navigational aids and the specialized, rattling 'soundball' used in the game - the documentary explores the complex relationship between dependence and autonomy. On the pitch, where he is fully reliant on auditory cues, Mbuangi challenges conventional notions of athletic space and visual interpretation.

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An emergent Artificial General Intelligence communes with her human progenitors through the uncanny persona of Melania Trump. Melania traverses deep time and space, encountering - among many others - a Supreme Being who looks a lot like Anna Wintour.

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The pace of technological progress in the physical world has stalled. WE MADE TELEPHONES converts mid-20th century propaganda and advertising into a personal, intergenerational exploration of how the ‘world of atoms’ fell apart—and how it might yet recover.

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At the dawn of the American West, two men - one a little-known Creole, the other a closeted historical icon - entered into a volatile relationship that spanned a continent. DOK Leipzig 2023 (International Competition, Short Documentary) Flatpack Film Festival 2024 Lunenburg Doc Fest 2024 Bolton International Film Festival 2024

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An overworked single mother encounters a bloodthirsty inter-dimensional demon - and possible salvation - in the laundry basket.

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Three strangers - all of whom work for the same corporation - take part in a management training day. Their volatile role-play task is to fire an imagined co-worker, exploring the worst possible reactions they might receive to eliminating another person’s livelihood.

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Composed of UFO 'witness' videos from across the globe - brief, ephemeral clips that inhabit the blurry boundary between error, hoax, and genuinely unidentified phenomena - HELLO BIG WEIRD is a playful meditation on the cognitive dissonance that can occur when a once-ridiculed subculture edges into respectability. Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2023

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In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan achieved the height of its power: not in America's Deep South, but in the culturally liminal state of Indiana. Using never-before-seen archive, KLANDIANA explores the origin and horrors of Klan rule, and the legacy of historical amnesia that emerged in the era’s wake.

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In the 1980s, a crusading paediatrician in a small corner of the North of England ignited a mass panic that consumed the police, social services, health services, and hundreds of the families they were supposed to serve.

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Bill Clinton’s strange legacy as President of the United States and ringmaster of the 1990s is a confounding mess of public amnesia, nostalgia, and scorn. WILLIAM JEFFERSON WILDERNESS is a personal exploration that legacy, and of the tangled process of consigning a former political hero to history. DOK Leipzig • International Competition • World Premiere St. Louis International Film Festival • Official Selection Florida Film Festival • Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant Garde

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Anthony Godby Johnson was an early 1990s New York City miracle: a boy who escaped years of horrific abuse only to discover that he was dying of AIDS. A boy who authored his own autobiography. A boy who earned friends and fans worldwide—and who did not exist. DOK Leipzig • International Competition • World Premiere London Short Film Festival • Official Selection Flatpack Film Festival • Official Selection Manchester Film Festival • Official Selection