Projects matching: Ben Young

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An emergent Artificial General Intelligence communes with her human progenitors through the uncanny persona of Melania Trump. Melania traverses deep time and space, encountering - among many others - a Supreme Being who looks a lot like Anna Wintour.

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The pace of technological progress in the physical world has stalled. WE MADE TELEPHONES converts mid-20th century propaganda and advertising into a personal, intergenerational exploration of how the ‘world of atoms’ fell apart—and how it might yet recover.

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At the dawn of the American West, two men - one a little-known Creole, the other a closeted historical icon - entered into a volatile relationship that spanned a continent.
Official Selection DOK Leipzig 2023

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An overworked single mother encounters a bloodthirsty inter-dimensional demon - and possible salvation - in the laundry basket.

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Three strangers - all of whom work for the same corporation - take part in a management training day. Their volatile role-play task is to fire an imagined co-worker, exploring the worst possible reactions they might receive to eliminating another person’s livelihood.

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Composed of UFO 'witness' videos from across the globe - brief, ephemeral clips that inhabit the blurry boundary between error, hoax, and genuinely unidentified phenomena - HELLO BIG WEIRD is a playful meditation on the cognitive dissonance that can occur when a once-ridiculed subculture edges into respectability.
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2023

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In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan achieved the height of its power: not in America's Deep South, but in the culturally liminal state of Indiana. Using never-before-seen archive, KLANDIANA explores the origin and horrors of Klan rule, and the legacy of historical amnesia that emerged in the era’s wake.

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In the 1980s, a crusading paediatrician in a small corner of the North of England ignited a mass panic that consumed the police, social services, health services, and hundreds of the families they were supposed to serve.

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Bill Clinton’s strange legacy as President of the United States and ringmaster of the 1990s is a confounding mess of public amnesia, nostalgia, and scorn. WILLIAM JEFFERSON WILDERNESS is a personal exploration that legacy, and of the tangled process of consigning a former political hero to history.

DOK Leipzig • International Competition • World Premiere
St. Louis International Film Festival • Official Selection
Florida Film Festival • Sunspots: New Visions of the Avant Garde

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Anthony Godby Johnson was an early 1990s New York City miracle: a boy who escaped years of horrific abuse only to discover that he was dying of AIDS. A boy who authored his own autobiography. A boy who earned friends and fans worldwide—and who did not exist.

DOK Leipzig • International Competition • World Premiere
London Short Film Festival • Official Selection
Flatpack Film Festival • Official Selection
Manchester Film Festival • Official Selection

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Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food passed the sell-by date.
He journeys south from Scotland, on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge.
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015 - World premiere

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In the documentary Streetkids United II - The Girls From Rio a Brazilian girls football team is followed as they prepare themselves for the tournament that will change their lives forever, the Street Child World Cup. In the midst of police and drug gangs confrontations the Favela Street Girls strive to keep their dreams alive.