Online Films

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  • For a Few Hours (13mins) 2012
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    • For a Few Hours is an experimental documentary made during the filmmaker’s residency at Middlesex University. It tells the story of Slovakian cleaner Petra and her British employer Kim, a working mother of 3, and the relationship between them. Set entirely in one space – a kitchen – and using a single fixed shot throughout, the film focuses on showing how the two women occupy the same space in different ways using a layering technique to paradoxically emphasize their connection and separation simultaneously. The women’s experiences unfold through the weaving together of their disembodied voice-overs offering a touching insight into a very specific female contemporary relationship.
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  • A Good Thing (9mins 45secs) 2009
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    • A Good Thing is a 10minute documentary that examines questions surrounding the cultural concept of art - what it is, where we find it, how we produce it and why we have it – through the eyes of a group of 7year old children from a North London Primary school. Primarily a participatory documentary, the film works as a collaboration between filmmaker and subjects and sees the children producing some unusual art of their own, and by simultaneously documenting the children’s responses to their own images on screen, the piece also works reflexively to comment on both the filmmaking process and the act of spectatorship.
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  • Jolly Phonics (2mins) 2009
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    • Jolly Phonics is a humorous experimental short documentary in which the filmmaker’s 5year old son performs the ‘Jolly Phonics Actions’ to the different sounds of the alphabet, as currently taught in British Primary Schools. It celebrates a variety of experimental techniques such as jump cuts, repetition and time leaps which challenge mainstream editing conventions in order to contest the notion that certain types of shot compilation are more natural than others. It is a fun and self-reflexive family record that communicates politically the basic principles of counter cinema tactics.
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  • Film Without Camera (6mins 40secs) 2009
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    • Film Without Camera was made in homage to the New Zealand artist and filmmaker Len Lye (1901-1980) who is widely credited as being the first person to paint directly onto the filmstrip creating vibrant and colourful avant-garde films in 1930s Britain. The music is taken from Lye’s film Colour Cry (1935). Made by taking felt tip pens and a hole-punch to an exposed strip of 16mm film and digitally filming the subsequent projection, the work celebrates both film as a material physical substance and the modern process of digital editing.
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  • Happy Accident (1mins 45secs) 2009
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    • Happy Accident is short abstract moving image piece concerned with repetition and rhythm. The piece was constructed by filming 16mm projections onto digital film and, as the title suggests, came about by chance as a result of filming some misaligned sprocket holes. By using digital editing techniques of post-production zooms, image flipping and extreme slow motion, rhythmic shapes and sounds build slowly to a climax.
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  • Medicinal Puposes Only (2mins 20secs) 2009 -
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    • Medicinal Purposes Only is a silent film about the medicinal properties of light on the symptoms of Alzheimer’s suffers. The image of a bare 60w, clear light bulb, slowed down to 1% of real time is overlaid with white lettered text. As the narrative of the text progresses the images mirror these developments. The positioning of the text in the centre of the screen allows the fluctuating light to affect the white text, reinforcing the relationship between image and word.
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  • Spin (2mins 20secs) 2009
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    • Spin is an abstract sonic visual work showing two everyday household objects in a fixed frame shot. The film utilises a variety of experimental camera techniques including shutter speeds, focal lengths and lighting. The layering of multiple audio tracks creates an amalgamation of sounds that build in pace, whilst the corresponding images parallel the rising sonic action with rapid, urgent editing. The intention behind the film is to expose how the camera can transform the ordinary or mundane into the extraordinary.
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  • Jack & Katie Make Jam Tarts (9mins 12secs) 2008
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  • Click Here For Love (11mins 12secs) 2008
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  • The Family Dinner (7mins) 2008
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  • The Family Dinner (Stills) (2mins) 2008
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