Projects

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Made up of electronically generated images from a modified television, captured on super 8 film and then treated by hand with coloured inks and bleach. Each of the 5 sections is closely matched by electronic music from Helliwell's customised circuits.

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The screenplay for this animated feature film takes as its inspiration a Celtic text called Y Mabinogi ('tales of young men'). The film starts in live action where we meet contemporary Welsh teenagers.

On his eighteenth birthday Lleu's world is shaken by the news that he is adopted. On the same day, his friend Rhiannon thinks that she may be pregnant, and Dan, who lives in his big brother's shadow, is as scatty as ever.

They all put their problems aside for the day when they come together to celebrate Lleu's birthday. Venturing on a boat trip along the Welsh coast they suddenly see a change in the water. They realise that, on May Eve, they have found the golden gateway to the OtherWorld, which can be seen shining deep beneath the waters.

Being an independent and stubborn girl, Rhiannon doesn't think twice before plunging into the sea, and the other two are not far behind. As they swim deeper and deeper and get closer and closer to the golden gateway, they are transformed into animated characters, and transported back many centuries to the Celtic world of the Mabinogi.

But Rhiannon, Manawydan and Lleu Llaw Gyffes have their own Sixth Century problems! Rhiannon is being forced to marry someone she doesn't love, Manawydan is trying to make things right after his brother's malicious and violent scheming, and Lleu is trying to come to terms with his mother's rejection of him.

While trying to overcome these problems, the characters have to deal with the conþict between fate, personal choice and magic. Alongside this we have scenes of vast battles and gritty man-to-man fighting in an action-packed story of ancient Celts in a dangerous and sometimes magical world!

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Dean, sensitive and intelligent, lives with his mum on an estate out of town. They're very close and she's doing everything she can to ensure that he doesn't end up like the other kids on the estate. But when Dean's friend Charlie-boy, is released from his latest spell inside, it's not long before the two of them are in trouble again. Dean is arrested for being in a stolen car, and is given two months in a young offenders institute.

Meanwhile, when Sam plans an armed robbery on a South London estate, his mate Danny goes along with it. But later they're arrested and are each sent down for two years. Once inside, Sam becomes a bully and joins in the ritualistic taunting of the weaker, new inmates. He targets Dean, who has become weak and vulnerable - although the prison officer, Mike, tries to help Dean and keep an eye out for him as much as he can, it ends in tragedy.

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An unusual documentary about London: sounds from interiors of locations heard over images of exteriors.

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Paradise Grove is the first film by award-winning TV and theatre director Charles Harris. A new British Independent movie, a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in a Jewish old age home in North London, it is also, remarkably, the first contemporary Jewish movie to be made in the UK for ten years.

Paradise Grove is a film with a distinctive and unusual voice. Starting with deceptively gentle comedy, it woos us with a colourful parade of sharply observed characters, each with their own quirks and eccentricities, before building to a moving climax with a strong emotional punch.

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Paris Skylight is an offbeat romantic drama about five friends, ordinary people leading a bohemian lifestyle over a hectic week in modern day Paris, and the way their lives are touched and changed forever by Shuko, a tourist visiting from Japan.

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One man's obsession with a woman forces him to break into her apartment. There he learns the truth about her, and himself.

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Peeping Tim is an intimate and detailed view of a voyeur who prides himself on his skills and anonymity. But his world comes unstuck when confronted by a lady with nothing to hide.

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Four children leave the sanctuary of human abode to journey into a dark forest. They discover the remains of a long dead soldier. They loot the grave and display the skeleton to the elements. The kids retrace their steps taking with them the unstable armaments and belongings they have found.

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Pencil and Rubber play cat and mouse in this 3D animated short from Griffilms.

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A 3D animated short from Griffilms where a normal rubber turns psycho in this macabre look into the world of Pencils and Rubbers.

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A quirky and darkly comic fable in which a newly redundant estate agent takes his revenge on the world in a most unexpected way. The charismatic anti-hero Mark is cursed with a sense of his own extraordinary destiny, but as a result he has lost touch with the banal reality in which he is forced to live.