Projects in categories: Artist Project and Video / Experimental

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The last hour of Faustus.
Adapted from: 'The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe

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Peter (Dir. Jane Topping, 2014) seeks to re-frame what is considered a classic of dystopian cinema (Blade Runner, 1982, dir. Ridley Scott) with the intention of positioning the artist within the text.
Peter manipulates found footage and narrative voice in order to reveal difficulties of viewer identification when watching Blade Runner.

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Set entirely inside a shopping centre, SYSTEM follows the interactions between two sisters; one anxious about her personal safety, the other concerned with the invisible threat of infection. The sterile atmosphere of the environment quickly becomes menacing as the women’s personal safety systems begin to fail.

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An unlikely candidate finds that things are not quite as they seem when he arrives to try out for a traditional Chora band. Pressed into playing a possessed tambourine, the world around him quickly spirals out of control.

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A forensic examination of memory and place.
The hidden history of the Roma Holocaust told through the testimony of five witnesses and survivors. Seventy years after the event they are still living next-door to the mass graves…some marked, but others long forgotten amongst the forests and wheat fields of Poland.

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Space, forms, colours and sounds symbolise a recognisable world.
Do we shape as much as we are shaped?

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A technographic study of e-recycling and neo-colonial mining filmed in the Agbogbloshie ewaste ground in Accra, Ghana. The video constructs a critique of the capitalist myth of the immateriality of new technology - thus revealing the mineral weight with which the Cloud is grounded to its earthly origins.

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BlkBx.mov explores and expands upon the technological notion of black boxing, identifying it as a contemporary dispositif across technology, science, religion, ideology and pop culture.

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Rose Daily has been critically injured and hospitalised after a near-fatal accident. One night, Rose awakes to be confronted by a ‘mysterious’ patient who testifies to how and why Rose ended up in such an awful predicament. Leaving Rose puzzled and eager to solve this mystery.

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Inspired by the writing of Jean Genet and made in collaboration with members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans community in Plymouth, whose personal narratives of longing and loss are told through a series of encounters in the liminal, waterfront spaces of the city's border with the sea.

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NOT AND OR involves black and white quadrilaterals spinning in virtual space that alternate with the same static shapes re-filmed from a screen in real space. The second half of the piece is the same as the first, but flipped, reversed and re-filmed again, through successive generations - adding while taking away.

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Over the course of 15 years Terry Thompson collected tigers, lions, bears, and other exotic animals. He had a complicated relationship with the law, and his neighbours. T's World unpacks the events surrounding his 2011 animal release and suicide.