Projects with status: Complete

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When we close our eyes, the shapes and patterns we see are called phosphenes. This experiment in documentary unfolds like a 'look and learn' phosphenes primer. Animated flowcharts and rich shimmering images uncover some surprising facts about the visual phenomenon that every human experiences.

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James Crocker: young, dashing and American, is having a jolly time in London; drinking, partying with unsuitable ladies and starting bar room brawls, earning him the nickname 'Piccadilly Jim'. That is, until his fearsome Aunt Nesta appears from New York, determined to drag him home, teach him some manners and get him a proper job. Jim has no intention of leaving until he claps eyes on Anne, Nesta's step-niece, and he is on his way to New York quicker than you can say 'Double martini, please barman!' Anne has never met Jim in the flesh, though knows about his fearful reputation, so Jim pretends to be Algernon Bayliss; teetotaller and upright member of society, until he can convince Anne to fall in love with the real Jim. But with temptation at every step, as well as his Aunt Nesta on his heels, will this be Piccadilly Jim's finest hour, or his final undoing?

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Alarm bells are beginning to ring and storm clouds are bearing down on the brilliant future of Adrian, the new teenage pop idol. Showing no respect or loyalty for his newly gained millionaire status, his old friends, neighbours, a fat ex-girlfriend and his pain in the neck of a brother threaten to reveal seedy details of his private life, hoping in return to receive the benefits from selling the exclusive rights of a bombshell article. After all, they want to live comfortably too. But Adrian doesn't want them to live at all. Accompanied by his "artistic" girlfriend, the gorgeous Amaretto, and followed closely by an intrepid gossip journalist, Adrian sends all  his acquaintances to a remote island in the Caribbean for a crazy holiday, which he hopes will be their last.

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After nine years of insomnia, a man decides enough is enough. He goes to meet the very things which help him get to sleep at night - three flying pigs - but will this lead to a permanent cure?

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A young boy receives the gift of piping from a sinister fairy, in this traditional Scottish Gaelic animated tale complete with 21st century bagpipe soundtrack.

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Pipes Cups and Switches is about how the human facial expression has extended to switches and other inanimate objects. And how pipes look like neck joints and the back of the head with the ears sticking out, resembles a cup. The film is shot to the accompaniment of pop and techno music. There is no dialogue except for a few words spoken by some of the participants.

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Ray, bleary-eyed after a sleepless night following yet another burglary, shares the slow lift down from the 13th floor of his high-rise with an aging but belligerent skinhead and his bull terrier. The skinhead's angry. The dog's hungry. Ray just wants to be left alone - that's not gonna happen.  

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An ancient tale retold, of a city under siege and the terrible action taken by one woman to save it.   The city elders are prepared to surrender, but Judith has other ideas. From the battlements she has watched Holofernes, the enemy general, and now she plans revenge and triumph. When they meet in his camp, they discover more complex desires and needs in each other, and during one night work out a passionate and dangerous relationship. By dawn Judith is victorious, but it is a bitter victory.   Does patriotrism justify any action? Is Judith a hero or a maniac? Is Holofernes oppressor or victim? Is this a story about the sexiness of war or the savagery of sex? Can violence ever generate peace, or does it just keep the brutal cycles of war, defeat, victory and reprisal circling forever?

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A character study of the relationship between a professional poker playing mother and her film making daughter, set against the backdrop of the World Series of Poker. 

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Polanow is a winter’s tale from Eastern Europe. It tells the old, familiar story of the end of love. In this version, a beautiful ice queen marries a warm-blooded mortal. She tries to show him Polanow, her mystical birthplace, but he does not have enough magic in his heart to see it.

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A typical day in the life of a not so typical old lady.

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A man finds a magic lamppost.