Projects in genres: Experimental

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An experimental short film that explores the theme of childhood and lost innocence. The imagery - based around the fairground carousel - evokes a fairytale and dreamlike yet sinister atmosphere that belies the decorative classical score.

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A rapid time-lapse journey from the Houses of Parliament to the open sea, offset by David Cunningham's musical score composed from fragments of Margaret Thatcher's Belgrano speech.

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Closer  is a film about an old man's fascination with a wilderness landscape painting at the Horniman's Museum. Shot entirely without dialogue, the story evokes a sense of spiritual longing to be somewhere else; somewhere far away from it all. The clever framing, lighting and an atmospheric sound design adds to the supernatural conclusion the film takes us to.

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Harnessing the communicative powers of both graphic and sound design, Collision draws on Islamic patterns and American quilts as well as the colours and shapes of flags from both cultures to offer abstract commentary on current events.

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Filmed in the Straits of Dover, Continental Drift measures the detachment of England from mainstream Europe.

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Dallas plays with the eponymous nature of this TV series, broadcast in many countries, it became a short hand for both American glamour and corruption, and indeed both repelled and seduced audiences in its relentless drama of power play and cliché. Here, in Dallas, the entire viewing-year of 1980 - a total of 18 episodes – is compressed into a 50-min, all-at-once experience. As text is layered over text, the compression and corruption here is spatial and temporal. The ghostly figures loom in a milky underworld, moving around a familiar scape of Texas with its skyscrapers and vast landscapes. In a way, what we are presented with promises to be in some way an ‘essence’, an undiluted version of the ‘original’ and to an extent this is true. Yet there is also a haunting quality to this work, where iconic faces loom, notorious events referenced and lines delivered; yet there is a disjunction at the heart of Dallas. It is a culture that is at once familiar and disorientating, Dallas appears to be a dreamscape of different order, more nightmare than escapist.

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A young boy draws on the condensation of a car window.

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Sam Moore's Doubled Up tells of the shock and awe of finding out she was expecting twins. The film is an opulent and multi-faceted song of love, panic, fear and lots of nappies.

'Visually arresting and beautifully effective' (Time Out).

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Chris is having visions, nightmares and repetitive dreams. He seeks help from a therapist who employs a number of unusual techniques to get the root of the problem - including hypnotic regression - a method that seems to take Chris back to a disturbing past life.

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Having telephoned the classified advertisement section of is local newspaper, Father Christmas then proceeds to try and place an advertisement for his replacement.

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Created in-camera this mixed media animated adventure combines live action, found objects with photo cut-outs that are weaved into a non-linear narrative and manipulated into a dark story of romance and psychological tension that unfolds into a cinematic world never seen before.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2006 - Short Film Competition - Nomination - Palme d'Or
BAFTA Film Awards 2006 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation
British Animation Awards (BAA) 2008 – Nomination - Best Animated Short

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Six actors punch, kick and wrestle their way through the Wild West of an East London drinking establishment.

The ritual of the Western bar-brawl is relocated in a London working men's club.

The formal approach (to choreography, framing and editing) ensures that the viewer is made aware of the choreographed nature of the violence. This violence appears to have no consequences, the actors' bodies being as rubbery and invulnerable as those in the television Westerns that inspired it.