There is a Ghost of Me is a visual poem mourning the lost opportunities for betterment on both a personal and political level. The director muses on his rotting teeth as his wisdom tooth extraction coincides with the election of Trump. The rising rot in public life is mirrored in his body, and the death…
Will My Parents Come To See Me is about a young man going through his last 24 hours in the prison system. Farah is an inmate in Somali jail. A police officer arrives to walk him through his final day. She is an older woman, whose face has a calm and steady countenance that belies…
A ghost story about a phantom island. Podesta Island is a tiny island supposedly glimpsed by a sailor in the 19th century off the coast of Chile. Its existence has been in contention ever since. Chile claims it as its territory as an expedient way of extending their waters for economic reasons. It’s on Chilean…
Naya is a short film following the life of a wolf, nicknamed Naya, who was fitted with a GPS tracker as part of an academic study, and found fame as the first wolf in Flanders in 100 years. The film is composed of CCTV and other surveillance footage. As Naya travels from Germany to Holland,…
Her Violet Kiss is a short film made from salvaged footage from a lost film, Pawns of Passion. Pawns of Passion was a German film from the 1920s, starring a Russian ballerina who searches across Europe for her lost love after the War. It actually has a great name in German, Liebesholle, meaning ‘Love’s Hell’,…
Powerful short film using interviews with Belarusian protestors who were attacked and tortured by the authorities to reverse-engineer a ‘handbook’ for oppression. When dictator Lukashenko once again declared himself the winner of a stolen election in 2020, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in protest, despite knowing it would make them a target for…
I Gotta Look Good For The Apocalypse is an animated short film, mixing painted real world scenes contrasted with the CGI of video games. Lockdown provides all these spookily absent landscapes, while we fill our social needs through gaming. Where the painted scenes of the real world are still, soft focus, silent, empty of human…
Done with an experimental mix of clips from across the spectrum of visual media, All of your Stars are but Dust on my Shoes looks at how light, and the control of light in public spaces, is a weapon of police and state control. Immediate thoughts were of the feature All Light, Everywhere, from earlier…
Good Day For The Bad Guys is a short film about an insufferable and tyrannical actor in a pantomime. Filled to the brim with that Scottish black humour, it’s written and directed by Peter Mullan, a man I only associate with films that are bleak as fuck, a man who would read Dostoyevsky for the…
Funny, quirky animated short film about a group of women who decide to take action on King James VI for the reign of terror on the country’s women during his witch hunts. It has a really interesting animation style, with these water colour drawings leaving ghosts of the previous frames. Based on the real, and…