Projects in categories: Documentary

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An exploration of how Chopin's Ballade Number One has transformed the lives of two young pianists.

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A 2012 season review of the British Superbike Championships.

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Accounts of the aftermath from Japan's devastating tsunami in 2011, featuring YouTube videos shot by survivors living in and near the affected areas.

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A poetic documentary about the nature of happiness. Filmed in Mexico over three days, for just £10, it begins as a film about the soviet director Sergei Eisenstein, and then, using his ideas, opens up to look at memory, landscape and the pleasures of walking.

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A short documentary exploring ‘Parkour’. It looks at the deeper philosophical meaning behind the activity and its sense of community

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Ten years ago, a few enthusiasts decided to revive the historic salt production of Bourgneuf Bay in the west of France. They dug out and cleared the ancient salt pans to harvest Bay Salt once again. Over the course of a year, we come to appreciate Bernard, Daniel and Mano, three different personalities, united by a genuine attachment to their work and a deep respect for nature.

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KILLING TIME is a short film investigating the life of an isolated young adult riddled with anxiety over the future of our planet, playing Xbox, smoking marijuana and surfing the Internet to pass his time, while he waits for the third kind to show up.

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My work constitutes a core interest in the languages of communication embedded in the social relationships and contexts of the everyday. In Living Room I collated video and sound over time from a single geographic location about the dissolution of family life.

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How the US government created a myth that took over the world.

UFOs: weapons of mass deception... For over 60 years teams within the US Air Force and Intelligence services exploited and manipulated beliefs about UFOs and ET visitations as part of their counterintelligence programmes. In doing so they spawned a mythology so powerful that it captivated and warped many brilliant minds, including several of their own. Now, for the first time, some of those behind these operations, and their victims, speak out, revealing a true story that is part Manchurian Candidate and part Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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Premier/Divisions is an artist film that blurs the line between documentary and experimental observational studies, in an attempt by the maker, as an outsider, to understand the complexities and tensions surrounding perceived and real notions of division in Kenyan society in the run up to the 2013 presidential elections.

The footage was documented at a time when tensions were particularly at the forefront of Kenya’s collective consciousness due to the occurrences of the 2007/08 election and the so called ‘post-election violence’ wherein tribal, class and political conflicts resulted in the murders of over 1,200 people.

Through a series of interviews with Nairobi residents, including artists, film makers, journalists, and musicians, director Chris Paul Daniels mixes oral anecdotal perspectives on contemporary Kenyan life within the context of tensions highlighted by the election, which was controversially won by President Uhuru Kenyatta on 4 March 2013.

The film aims to present a personalised portrait of Nairobi with all its vibrancy, complexities and contradictions and reflect on universal societal habits to seek communal identities, ideologies and alliances.

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Sayadeen is a short documentary shot over one morning from a boat off the coast of Gaza. Forced to fish within a three mile sea frontier, local fishermen struggle to survive - supplies are dwindling and they risk everything to feed their families.

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Norman Billingham's workshop has been pulled up around him over a lifetime. Chippings, clippings and filings fill a garage used to transform lumps of wood into beautiful pens and functional furniture. Although a scientist by training, Norman is the first to admit he's always been a maker of things.