Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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In the bleak midwinter, maverick Mulloy is back with a Christmas card for the crisis. Fish with a mission, no room at the chippy, beasts of burden. Melancholy millennium. What other kind is there?

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With Thatcher our narrator we take a fast-forward ride through the high-rise 80’s and the lottery-led 90’s in a pop promo for the punk in us all. Money might be too tight to mention, but things can only get better, can’t they?

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Written on the body, a pixillated pillow book of all flesh, this film questions adornment through rhythm and ritual, dream and suggestion, asking why? Sex, territory or cellular expression?

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You’d be crazy for feeling so lonely … From scrapbook bodies to outlines filled with light, there’s collage in the chaos and dance tunes in the abstract visual music. Take two…

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A trinity of dying, as hand exposure of film, drawing, live action and stop-motion conspire to probe the mystery of the final moments. Potent and disquieting as it seeks answers to the great question.

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A mother follows Death through a hostile winter landscape to win back her child, giving up her eyes and her hair on the way. Ruth Lingford's woodcut-like animation, drawn on an Amiga home computer, adapts Hans Christian Andersen's The Story of a Mother.

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The big issues addressed in an abstract animation ripe with optically manipulated hand-painted film. Employing the associative logic of dream it creates a dazzling reverie of colour and pattern.

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A home movie on permanent loop. Live action up for grabs. A family walk the walk across a field, disappearing into memory as they do. Who knows where the families go?

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Man hands on misery to man. Father and son resist the stereotypes of their race and gender in this personal/historical survey of bias and prejudice. Montage and masculinity meet in an analysis of the black experience.

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CG cushions – couch potatoes who won’t even answer the phone, until the Crimplene angel opens their door onto life. Sofa-day night fever in this digital dance extravaganza.

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A dazzling expression of the visual music revealed by 365 setting suns. Over 4500 time-lapse drawings were painted directly onto a continuous strip of 35mm film using a variety of materials such as nail varnish, hair, bleach, net stocking and magnolia petals. Arts Council England and Channel 4 Animate Award.

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Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist, whose classic publications 'The Wretched of the Earth' (1961) and 'Black Skin White Mask' (1952) became founding texts of the decolonization movement. This film examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the independence struggle in Algeria. Digitally remastered in 2K through the BFI Unlocking Film Heritage programme. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Experimenta Strand - 2K Restoration World premiere