Projects matching: Jake Astbury

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A middle aged man waiting for his blind date at a cafe gets more than he bargained for when he orders a coffee.

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Radical Tendencies is a social realist drama about Tahir Masum, an everyday young university student, whose life is changed when he is racially abused and influenced by a new “friend” into the world of radicalisation.

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The last hour of Faustus.
Adapted from: 'The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe

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A Posthumous document.

The silent personal archive of deceased filmmaker Terra Miller is laid out against all that remains of one of Miller’s final pieces, an acerbic audio recording of Isabella Berretta, founder of organisation The Fire Brigade. The youngest member of this organisation, Terra’s brother Jaric, whose movements appear to cross time and space in the archive, becomes the physical narrator to Berretta’s vocal presence, at times in synergy, at others in conflict with each other.

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Helene recounts rather peculiar goings on in her household, sharing with us what she thinks Mummy (and Daddy) could do about it.

Based on the Children's category winner at Milan's Festival Delle Lettere, colourful memories are recounted and occasionally improved, through the eyes of this imaginative 11 year old.

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A female gure tells us the possible journeys of gures in this gothic space, playing all the parts of girl, bride, woman.

A dress is stolen, returned, rebuffed. A dialogue of rising and falling, returning and escape.

This is Not Jane.

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Day Will Fall follows the fragmented psycho-odyssey of a Soho Debt Collector, whose past, present and future congeal offering a brief moment for redemption.

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New York, London, Monroe is a memory piece reflecting the souls unrequited love for a place, or a life, it has never consciously visited. A Future Archive is projected, drawn from the Artist's past works.

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He and She fell in love. She was banished, so now he waits. They promised to meet halfway if she could ever escape from below.

Yet now she’s arrived, he can barely look at her.

A story of love lost, found, returned and burned.

A 75 minute piece of Artist Cinema.

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Claude Cahun’s iconic photograph ‘Don’t Kiss Me/In Training’ was inspiration for a two line poem, a fractured couplet revealed and hidden throughout this piece about intimacy, tactility and the projected theatre of how it feels to be together.

A game involving dressing up, repeated, with love. Training for feeling.

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Asylum seekers in indefinite detention around the UK leave messages in vain on an abandoned answerphone in the basement of a government ministry.
 
They are invisible to the outside world; yet exist under a regime of constant surveillance. Their past traumas return in their dreams and erupt in hallucinations that fill them with panic and fear.
 
With the threat of deportation ever present, they describe their own psychological deterioration as they pass the days in an unlimited confinement that strips their lives of all certainty. Their words trigger dark, visceral images inside the static and void of the phone line.

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Expressed via abstraction and aggressive editing, 4 chapters of unspeakable portrays an instability in self-image and emotions alongside impulsive behaviour, via changes in appearance of the artist and the shape of the frame.