Projects matching: Alex Barrett

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A dyslexic teenager struggles to maintain a relationship with the wayward older brother he idolises.

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A modern day silent film - a city symphony - offering a poetic journey through the city of London. A cultural snapshot of London as it stands, and a celebration of the city's diversity.
Stunning visuals are combined with James McWilliam’s stirring music, to take the viewer on a poetic journey through London, exploring its rich diversity of culture, architecture and religion. It is a meditative and blissful film that celebrates a vibrant and visually stunning city.
Edinburgh International FIlm Festival 2017 - World premiere

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Pete, Tom, Claire and Jay are university graduates having trouble making the move into adult life. Beneath the hanging out and the daily routines simmers Pete's desire to find a spiritual answer to life's meaning, Jay's desperate need not to get hurt again, and Tom and Claire's ever increasing mutual attraction. A thoughtful character drama, Life Just Is is a film about love, death, and, most importantly of all, life itself.

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A sequel to the award-winning short film Paintbrush, Paintbrush: The Epitaph continues to explore interaction in the age of online social networking, focusing specifically on the way it affects ideas of mortality.

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A psychological romantic drama which deals with one man's struggle with his conscience as he realises that he has become his own worst hate: the 'other' man. He must now decide which is stronger: the hate that he feels for himself, or the love that he feels for his partner.

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A modern-day city-symphony, the film presents an abstract journey over Hungerford Bridge and the footbridges alongside it.

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Canbury is a trilogy of stories concerning the lives of six twentysomethings, dealing with their progression (or lack thereof) beyond the confines of adolescence: two friends discuss their opposing attitudes to relationships; a male and female fail to act upon their mutual attraction; two males sit comatose through boredom.

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A man kneels down to pray to a painting of Jesus, only to find that his prayers are interrupted by a noisy fly. Despite his efforts, the man cannot deter the fly from interrupting his prayer, and soon finds himself embroiled in a challenge of the great and small.

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Made up entirely of stills, Paintbrush presents portraits of ten users of a fictitious online social networking website. By detailing the information given by each user on their profile, the film explores themes surrounding identity, while also serving as a satire of online social networking.