Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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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. Official Selection DOK Leipzig 2023

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An experimental short about female desire, shame and betrayal. Drawing from a highly personal experience we follow a vulnerable young woman experiencing a breakdown via a collision of conflicting relationships and gender power struggles. Using physicality, haunting sound design and immersive camera work as vessels for intimate, multi-layered and unerringly contemporary story telling. Our lead finds herself on a repeating loop, the end is the start as she oscillates between what was and what is. Is she unable to escape her trauma and her psychological suffocation or patterning? The movement echoes the work of Pina Bausch, and in doing so draws links to the expression of the feminist landscape of emotion and conflict that we continue to work through.

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"Only when I was singing did I feel loved...to sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming." In this experimental film, Maria Callas is transfigured in recordings of different performances - Norma, Tosca and Medea. The film is composed as an audio-visual ICONOSTASIS (a wall of icons) of different archive formats and newly shot footage. MARIA is a transcendent experimental vision of an icon, artist and woman.

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Exploring the relationship between people and birds through a combination of hand drawn animation and photographic collage, centring around the community of pigeon keepers in Glasgow.

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A meditation on memory, loss, and the spectral presence of ancestry, where the past and present collapse into a liminal space beyond time. Through archival imagery and ritualistic gestures, the film questions what it means to mourn, remember, and exist beyond the material world.

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A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th-century labour struggles, the nascent years of narrative cinema, and contemporary surveillance cultures. Along the way producing a terrifying portrait of the technological ideologies that have shaped our present and the nightmares of the people they emerged from. Official Selection Berlin International Short Film Festival 2023 - Forum Expanded - World premiere

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A sci-fi city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952. Created from archive footage, the film unfolds through fictional letters from a post-apocalyptic future. The film invites us to understand the smog in the context of the present-day climate emergency and our global destiny. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Competition - World premiere Official Selection Uppsala Short Film Festival 2023

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Luke Fowler’s portrait of Scottish poet and filmmaker Margaret Tait takes its inspiration from her unrealised project about her home region of Orkney, drawing and riffing on her notes and footage to produce a blissful union of two artistic sensibilities. Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2023 - Forum - International premiere Official Selection Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2023

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Mel, a young Black lesbian, enraged at being wrongfully jailed, casts a spell during her overnight stay in a cell-block to tip the power balance between herself and the Police. A disturbing look at racialised misogyny and its violent counterpart through a black, female gaze.

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In excavating her own body, Beth confronts her own intrusive perversions in this dystopian reimagining of the body’s extinction.

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A hypnotic hand drawn animation; a mysterious transmission revealing playful geometric possibilities. The film provides a meditative and contemplative space, oscillating between flatness and depth, control and instability.

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Guilty admiration for pickpocketing skills made me aware of my own hands to interact with the video image.