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Scapelands, by Katie Beard & Naomi Turner
Katie and Naomi met at university through a common interest in dance film. Their work examines the divide between urban environments and rural areas through a short dance piece that explores primal connections with nature and the effect of urban living on the human mind.

We Got It Easy, by Jess Bartlett and Elise Martin
Jess and Elise are both film production graduates and award-winning writers. Their work is a unique musical piece, when a seemingly bright morning is tainted by the everyday struggles that young people in Britain endure.

Wood For The Trees, by Simon Dawson
Simon is a filmmaker from Wiltshire who has recently graduated from university. His work follows three retirees as they get lost in the woods at night. Attempting to use her new smartphone to find a way out, one of them accidentally begins a social media live stream instead.

Dying To Live, by Delano Gournet-Moore
Delano is a musician and filmmaker currently studying anthropology and archaeology at university. Dying To Live is an audio-visual piece depicting the struggle of a young black man living in Bristol, 2019, exploring themes of visibility and identity through the mediums of song, dance and storytelling.

A Fashion Show, by Okori Lewis-Mccalla
Okori is a creative originally from Bristol. A Fashion Show is an abstract metaphorical depiction of his perspective on the black experience.

Detention, by Owain Astles
Owen is a freelance filmmaker and photographer from Bristol. Detention is a short immersive documentary about life inside a Young Offender’s Institution.

Stitching, Kneeling, by Izzy Mooney
Izzy is a Fine Art student. Stitching, Kneeling looks at the hand stitched kneelers of St Peters Church in the village of Tewin and the people who made them. This film attempts to archive this craft, one which survives in so many parishes across Britain.

Institute of Contemporary Arts

Albion, Refreshed, by Dan Guthrie
Based in South London, Dan is a filmmaker and film curator whose work explores the symbolism and stigmas associated with the Union Jack, via a combination of an ominously reworked version of Rule Britannia and fast paced visuals of African fabrics.

Apocrypha, by Tam Nkiwane
Having returned from a four month trip to Zimbabwe, Nkiwane has worked with a Sangoma (South African spiritualist) from Walthamstow, exploring surrounding environments and resonances from the past through objects and materials.

Body To Body, by Emily Charlton
Based in London, Emily is an artist-filmmaker whose film attempts to consider the ocean space as an ecosystem where collaboration and competition dominate. Her work re-interprets marine objects from The Discovery Collection at the National Oceanography Centre into a new affective order.

Fanny Eaton: The Forgotten Pre-Raphaelite Model, by Sarah Ushurhe
Sarah is an artist, illustrator and writer. Her piece highlights the life of Fanny Eaten, a Pre-Raphaelite Model of mixed-heritage who is featured both as a background character (such as in Rossetti’s The Beloved) and as the main subject. 

Other Voices, by Sarah Brown (pictured above)
Sarah lives and works in London as a filmmaker. Other Voices intends to bring empathy and insight to queer stories, in their piece they explore and celebrate the very rare and marginal spaces outside of kinship.

Radio Silence, by Louiza Ntourou
Louiza is an artist-filmmaker interested in the paradoxes hidden in human communication and interaction. Her work explores the peculiar communication of a father with his daughter, through the expressing of emotions using radio stations and songs.

Top Wavers, by Comfort Adeneye
Comfort is an aspiring filmmaker keen to explore different aspects of London culture. Top Wavers follows a lighthearted conversation between black British boys as they discuss the lengths they go through to achieve perfect hair waves.

Rural Media

Folk, by Livi Van Warmelo
A composer and performer originally for Herefordshire, Livi is currently studying music and composition at university. Her work involves music played by the characters, rather than dialogue, communicating a complex and poignant story between folk players in a pub.

Blow Your Brains Out, by Tom Dwyer
Originally from Derbyshire, Tom graduated from The University of Brighton in 2017. Blow Your Brains Out follows a young man who sneezes so hard his brains fall out. He attempts to prevent those closest to him from finding out, with interesting results...

Greenlight, by Josh Brown
Based in Lincoln, Josh is a filmmaker and videographer who specialises in travel documentary. Greenlight explores the troubles of a young man whose inability to fall asleep sends him spinning into an existential crisis of self-doubt and unrealistic expectations.

Raised By Queenz, by Soph Webberly (pictured top of page)
Soph was born in Wolverhampton and has a degree in Media Production. Raised By Queenz is a poetic soliloquy, representing and empowering the generations living in the world of single parents and working-class role models, through the honest opinions of those raised by strong single women.

The Siren’s Song, by Thomas Longstaff (pictured above)
Thomas is a young filmmaker from Coventry. His work is an offbeat poetic dark comedy about a young man’s descent into mania as he fails to resist the hypnotic allure of his snooze button.

Turbine, by Dan McKee
Dan is a video director and multimedia artist with an interest in using algorithms in counter-intuitive ways. Turbine explores two dancers, interwoven visually by movement as a mirror revolves and continually switches perspective from one dancer to another.

Ffasiwn, The Film, by Joe Gainsborough
Joe is a cinematographer with a background in documentary and creative filmmaking. His work looks at the unique creative expression of local young people from South Wales as they parade in hand-crafted costumes from their estate to Blaenavon mountain.

Screen South

Black Fish, by Simi Abe
Simi studied creative writing at university and aspires to write for film and TV. Her piece follows a grieving mother as she discovers photographs of the life her son would have lived if he had not passed away.

It’s Not The End Of The World, by Chris Dunleavy
Chris is an animator and director from Essex. His work asks: what would happen if the Internet Of Things came alive? The piece is a comedy of errors, detailing the attempt of domestic artificial intelligence to take over the world.

Manmade, by Isabel Palma
Isabel is a British-Spanish writer, director and artist with a background in fine art. Her short film follows a young woman haunted by her inner demons as she tries to find a way out.

Spirit Corp. by Sian Fan
Sian is an emerging artist, studying at Central Saint Martins. Her work is a dark exploration into humanity’s fixation with the digital. Spirit Corp. tells the story of a possible future where a human finds their body re-rendered in cyberspace, yet their consciousness cannot be contained.

Our Largest, by Marcus Forde
Marcus is a young writer and director with an interest in bending reality. His work follows a young father and son as they discuss nothing and anything as they gather supplies for a small, DIY community wedding.

Terra Firma, by Rehmat Rayatt
Rehmat Rayatt is a photographer and filmmaker with a background in documentary. Terra Firma is a spoken word film about a young woman’s journey to discover her identity through the migration of her mother.

Through A Screen Darkly, by Zac Spearman
Zac is an aspiring filmmaker with a background in human and social geography. His work follows a young woman working in social media content moderation, who reaches a tipping point when the disturbing nature of the online world she policies begins to mesh with her own.

When The Tides Went Down, by Jordan Buckner
Jordan is an artist and animator. His piece is a short animation exploring our different responses to climate change, asking how we come to terms with the end of our existence when facing such a grave threat.

Tyneside Cinema

Elephant In The Room, by Georgia Mulraine
Georgia studied English Literature and Politics at university, and Elephant In The Room is her first film. Combining home movies and photos with spoken word she creates a video self-portrait that explores what it means to be mixed race.

It’s Raining It’s Pouring, by Ronan Mackenzie
Blackburn-based Ronan is an animator whose film uses a rich combination of animation techniques and expressive sound design to explore the long and rich life of his grandfather.

Light Noise, by David Spittle
David is a Newcastle-based poet who uses his grandfather’s scratched and faded Super 8 films - combined with a unique soundscape - to explore the theme of memory and decay.

Notes On Being A Lady, by Zodwa Nyoni
Zodwa is a playwright, poet and dramaturg. Notes On Being A Lady explores how women are taught from a young age that their bodies do not belong to them.

Paper Skin, by Isobel Clark
Isobel is a writer and director from Blackpool. Through a series of carefully crafted single-shot scenes she explores the experiences that one young woman shares with a number of 'sugar daddies'.

Before A Pack of Wild Dogs Eats My Face Off, by Naqqash Khalid
Naqqash works in film, live art and theatre. Before A Pack of Wild Dogs Eats My Face Off is a unique exploration of masculinity and grief.

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