The Personal Profile Project: Ben Rivers and Charlotte Ginsborg

25.02.10
Jack Stephenson by Ben Rivers We are pleased to be able to present Husne Tekagac by Charlotte Ginsborg and Jack Stephenson by Ben Rivers, part of the 12 films made for The Personal Profile Project series by Project Art Works. Project Artworks is a creative intervention in the transition of young people with complex needs from children’s to adult services. ‘Project Art Works proposed that a short ...
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Steven Eastwood – The Hiss of the Blow

10.02.10
Steven Eastwood - The Hiss of the Blow. Photos courtesy of Magnus Arrevad Here is an extract from The Hiss of The Blow by Steven Eastwood. A twin-screen installation, The Hiss of the Blow presents visceral invocations of boxing, focusing on Marianne Marston and Angel Mckenzie. The two protagonists skip, hit punch bags and shadow box in front of the camera, while at one point the pace ...
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The Alcohol Years by Carol Morley

21.12.09
The Alcohol Years, image courtesy of Carol Morley Carol Morley’s highly acclaimed documentary The Alcohol Years is a courageous, moving and often funny account of five self-destructive years of her life in early 1980s Manchester. It’s a poetic retrieval in which Carol’s rediscovered friends and acquaintances recount tales of her drunken and promiscuous behaviour. Carol’s search for her lost self and the conflicting memories and viewpoints ...
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Addictive TV remixes

09.12.09
Addictive TV Here we have two remixes that showcase the audiovisual talents of Addictive TV. First up is the ident they devised to publicise the Europa League on UK terrestrial channel Five. The promo blends together shots from an assortment of football games with the intent that the broadcaster can edit the ending to advertise different matches. To see an alternate version check out Addictive TV’s ...
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To Whom It May Concern

25.11.09
Image courtesy of Ian Gouldstone Ian W. Gouldstone: In May 2009, I became animator-in-residence at Newport University with the simple goal of playing with animation for a month.  This was in direct response to my own (and sometimes others’) obsession with the finished product, that I sometimes forget to be spontaneous and have fun.  So, with ‘To Whom It May Concern’, I chucked all those anxieties ...
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Sound Seam by Aura Satz

06.11.09
Sound Seam, image courtesy of Aura Satz Aura Satz’s Sound Seam is a collaboration with the musician and gramophone specialist Aleks Kolkowski funded by the Wellcome Trust. Starting with the abstract imagery of close-ups of gramophone grooves, Sound Seam gives voice to the idea that every surface, in particular parts of our anatomy, is potentially inscribed with an unheard sound. The soundtrack’s musical composition ...
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Badinage by Oliver Harrison

02.11.09
Filming on the set of Badinage, image courtesy of Oliver Harrison APEngine brings you a sneak preview of Badinage, the debut feature by award-winning filmmaker Oliver Harrison. In this dark fairy tale a poet dreams of a surreal world in an attempt to mask the truth. Set in a fantastical ‘other England’ which has fallen under the brutal rule of a fanatical sect, Badinage imagines a ...
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