A woman on a drip steps outside the hospital for a breather. But does she follow doctor's orders?
Part of THE MUTE Series, a collection of deadpan micro-films made with adherence to three rules: RULE 1 no dialogue; RULE 2 no camera moves; RULE 3 only one shot
Official Selection Vienna Shorts 2024 - World premiere
Documenting the annual round up of wild Carneddau mountain ponies in Wales - organised by local farmers, it's the only intervention in the ponies' lives, who otherwise graze undisturbed whilst conserving their mountain habitat. The film follows the event, becoming increasingly engulfed in complex dynamics of capture and care.
Official Selection International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2024 - World premiere
A fly on the wall mini doc on the daily activities of engineers in London fixing elevators - showing a day with the teams out on various sites and showing the works that are undertaken by the site teams.
After enduring decades of embarrassment, the filmmaker admits that possessing the most common name in the English-speaking world has had a profound impact on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, BEING JOHN SMITH takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.
Throw away all common sense and tap into your madness as you follow Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian - a London-based artist and educator of Armenian and Algerian descent - on a fascinating journey to build a new civilization on the moon. Along with her doppelgängers, Myriam and Lucia, Nelly challenges us to defy power structures and reject planetary exploitation by letting go of the constraints of borders, gender, and religion to embrace what diversity could be in the vast landscape of our imaginations. Prior to their mission, Nelly and her parallel version of self speak with a wide-ranging collection of experts. There’s an LGBTQ+ rights activist, an astronomer, a political scientist, an archaeologist who also makes wine, a theoretical physicist, an environmental designer, a horror filmmaker, and a mathematical economist. They are all crucial to their quest to uncover the key to a queer, eco-feminist future devoid of generational trauma, colonization, and imperialism. However, as the analog space mission takes unexpected turns, the future remains as uncertain as the condition of Schrödinger’s Cat.
Featuring the music of Pussy Riot and Colin Self.
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024 - World premiere
Official Selection Munich Film Festival 2024 - European premiere
Using a mixture of cutting edge generative AI, non-linear collage, dreamlike imagery and and analogue filmmaking techniques, FLESH WISH details the summoning of demonic entities behind the locked doors of a nondescript suburban home in 1970s Britain.
Gori, Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, becomes the backdrop for the intertwined stories of two women from different generations: die-hard Stalinist Nasi and anti-Stalinist Zhana. Both women, scarred by the loss of their fathers to war, grapple with their contradictory interpretations of history.
Their contrasting views expose the absurdities within historical legacies, while the dialectical tensions lead Zhana to confront her adoptive grandmother, Nasi, over her vigorous defiance of the dictator’s memory. It paints a picture of a town in conflict with its own past, holding onto a bygone era, and questioning the very foundations of the cult of Joseph Stalin.
As reality erodes, it exposes the illusory worlds we create for comfort amidst challenging realities.
Official Selection Hot Docs International Documentary Festival 2024 - World premiere
In an age of intersecting political, man-made and ecological disasters, this film is an ode to the sirens of a changing world. Will we hear them in advance? Does an alarm have to be alarming?
Official selection MOMA Doc Fortnight 2024 - World premiere
A poetic response to the archive and oral histories of Tyneside Cinema, an independent cinema in north-east England which has faced many waves of crisis. Through vignettes, SINKHOLE meditates on grand visions and being near to collapse.
A stop motion exploring the negative usage of technology.
Drawing inspiration from the Nakagin Capsule Tower, remote
working and research into the evolutionary effect of technology, this piece of motion presents a future that might be closer than we think.
Two cities with two women walking in them at night. In one (found footage), light is all that remains. In the other (created in AI), there was never anything else.
