Set in the small town of Gloucester, this surrealist drama explores the return of a young man (Rory Alexander) to his old life after the disappearance of his mother. Following his release from a psychiatric hospital, all appears to begin again as normal when his guardian Dunleavy (Mark Rylance) takes him in and offers him his old job back at the garage. But, one night, taken to a mysterious club by fellow garage workers, the old magic of the forest and his past collide in ways he could never expect.
A poetic, experimental short film exploring the filmmaker's personal journey of masculine identity and the harmful attributes associated with masculinity. The earth cracks and gives way as a man is born to the stars. However, deep underground a seed takes root, sending its poison to the surface.
Two ex-lovers bump into each other at a train station.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2021 - World premiere
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2022
Seven inhabitants of a de facto state on the Black Sea unfurl a web of stories about loss and displacement through re-imaginings of their dreams and memories of the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2021 - Experimenta - World premiere
A Professor of Psychology with a dark secret, a nun terrified of dying, and a traumatised young woman all come together in this trio of intersecting horror stories. BLACK LIZARD TALES features ghostly visions, demon worship, and serial murder set on an English university campus.
A filthy love letter to Essex, like you’ve never seen it before. In a village at the end of the road, teenagers smothered in black mud, run wild through the vast salt marshes in a bizarre tradition hundreds of years old - ‘creek jumping’.
Cotton is a plant with connotations that far surpass its delicate white flowers, bringing to mind issues of enforced labour, of exploitation and of colonialism. Yet the very crop for which Creole women were forced into labour, offered a form of herbal resistance: cotton root bark could be used as birth control. Herbal knowledge carefully gathered and held, was used amongst the women to defy a lineage of servitude. Beneath the inherent violence of the slave economic system, we find quiet resistance and moments of deep, loving rebellion. IF I COULD NAME YOU MYSELF (I WOULD HOLD YOU FOREVER) is in memoriam of this legacy.
Artist Film Commission for HOME, Manchester, March 2021
My grandmother was a T'ung-yang-hsi. It is a tradition of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law.
The audiences may glimpse the past, imagine women's situation in our times, and look forward to striving for real gender equality in the future.
Official Selection Hot Docs Festival 2021 - World premiere
Virtual reality project by Human Studio seeking to demonstrate the ‘personality of a place’, via a combination of original 360° filming, archive imagery and audio interviews.
Official Selection Immersive Futures Lab, BEYOND 2022 (Cardiff)
THE EARTH ASLEEP discovers hidden truths and forgotten histories about the 2011 Great East Thoku earthquake and tsunami, the most powerful disaster ever recorded in Japan. The documentary includes invaluable archive research, testimonies, ceremonial rites, spiritual beliefs, bringing a sensitive understanding of loss and trauma. Image, poetry and music intertwine in an evocative rhythmic montage of archive and original visual elements, with a score beautifully rendered and inspired by Japanese instruments, and a poem on-screen highlighting the role of the metaphor, to mark the 10th year commemoration of the lost and missing people.
The Earth Asleep is commissioned by HOME, Arts Council England and The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Supported by University of Salford.
A personal, visual essay about gender transition - focusing on the social context and exploring how the world is different living as female compared to being perceived as male. Jack tells his story by using and reframing gender focused tropes and imagery from popular culture, mythology, history and art.
