Short Films

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Archive Film for the Museum of Youth Culture permanent space, launch Autumn 2024

Sleaze Nation – a curated selection of cover art formed the basis of the film.

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Ghost Writ.

The Ghost Writ show was commissioned by the National Centre for Writing in Autumn 2024. Celebrating Norwich as UNESCO city of Literature. This piece was on a CRT monitor – the work unfolded in the undercroft of Dragon Hall – the site of the National Centre for Writing. It was a live sub-information loop capturing the essence of a writer whose only path to understanding, lied in discovering meaning through sound, leaning into the liminal space between the tongue and the mind. A second longer version with sound here

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A film I made for Me Without You show . Composer Emily Levy and Writer-Director Mella Faye have created an unflinching, heartfelt and uplifting exploration of love, loss and survival. A touring theatre show that combines music, dance, film and recorded interviews from conversations across the UK richly layered by a world class ensemble of creatives to create an extraordinary elegy to the power of story and human connection. Me Without You celebrates those we’ve lost and those of us who are still here. The film contains videography by Sam Halmarack and music composed by Emily Levy.

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Love Letters to the Building.

The psycho-geographic line begins at Lime Grove campus – (originally the Hammersmith School of Art and Building) : building 1. This is one of a series of films made for Love Letters to the Buildings. A site responsive exhibition across five sites for London College of Fashion. It is a farewell to the buildings as the university moves to a single site in East-bank Stratford. The farewell encompasses the psycho-geography, memory and ghosts left behind after decades of creative thinking, artisan training embedded in the studios and workshops, interaction and collaboration of the people that have walked through the building, room, corridor.

John Prince’s Street (building 2) site’s focus is the psycho-geography, purpose built, brutalist, celebration of the space, the layers of skill, archive in digitised and analogue imagery. Interviews with technical staff , alumni and academics, roots in memory and ghosts of the building. The ephemeral nature of a student’s time here alongside many of the teaching staff, who are perpetual The solidity of the building. Once permanent now also evaporating with the memory of a space…

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^{A series of 6 films below, to accompany tracks from The Neutrinos – Ordinary Things album – These are the ballads that punctuate our Klanghaus shows, when we slow the audience down and give them a chance to breath and sit together.}

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The Voice Project.

The Voice Project make brilliant choral theatre. In March 2020, the choirs fell silent. The Voice Project had planned to start rehearsing a new show, The Distance Between Us: Instead, together we began making films of their work with the singers recording and filming themselves. We developed them into a series including the portrait prologue below.