Filmmakers' Profiles
Some of the fantastic filmmakers whose work we've screened at our events previously.
Lewis Heriz
So long (we dreamt of this)
In a world where human consciousness is fused with the network, a dialogue interrupts seemingly calm acts of reading and tending to houseplants. Are we witnessing a mind, thinking? Humans, speaking? Or something else? A reflection on the tensions inherent in being 'always connected', and the conflicts created by the fusion of technology and the organic.
Lewis Heriz is an experimental animator and audio/visual artist. He is excited by animation's capacity to communicate the complexity of being human and to express the ineffable, and works intuitively with process-led approaches that gravitate around a subject.
@lewisheriz
Adonia Bouchehri
Jello
Jello is centered around a character who lives in isolation inside a room, where she works and sleeps. Her only companions are a kiwi bird and a turtle who each carry significance for her existence within the room she shares with them. Her interactions with a large jelly rat, the strangeness of the object and its particular material qualities come to explode this highly controlled space of isolation and obsession.
Adonia Bouchehri explores the relationship we form with the spaces we physically inhabit, those we create in our imagination and the intermingling and blurring between the two. In her work Adonia Bouchehri investigates how the images we live and grow up with affect our bodies. She perceives images as agents, which can inhabit the body and structure our feelings and perceptions.
Edwin Miles
Shadows in a landscape
A filmmaker attempts to reconnect with his hometown during a walk to the Clent Hills where he is confronted by more than just picturesque views.
Edwin Miles is an artist-filmmaker, documentarian, and home moviemaker from Worcestershire in the West Midlands. Now based in London, his work often reflects on his geographical dislocation from his riverside hometown, regularly referring to his home, family, and memories via psychogeographical journeys around the places he finds himself in.
IG: @eajmiles
Twitter: @eaj_miles
Maitry Rao
Anywhere but here
A metacommentary film about wanting to go places and see new faces, but being prevented from doing so by the pandemic. The narrator unravels a bittersweet resolution in the self-reflexive filmmaking process as we dive deeper into her dreamscape. This film shows a reasonable desire to escape the loop of being confined in the same space over a duration of an unreasonable amount of time.
Maitry Rao, born in India and based in London, is a digital artist mainly working in 3D and VR animation. She comes from a fine art background and allows her traditional art styles to seep into her digital creations. Her work at the Royal College of Art explores autobiographical and self- interrogative themes. She started writing monologue style poems and weaving together surreal moving images by making an interactive walking simulator and a self-reflexive film.
Patricio Alfaro
Yesterday you were here
In this film reality and fiction meet, the value of doubt is as decisive as accurate knowledge. It reflects on the audiovisual as a generating source of narratives, presenting a fracture between the memory, the real one and the false one. It elucidates the territory that exists between the memory and the records of it. How can I try to get to memories, that I'm not really sure of their existence, through recreations of images stored only in my mind.
Graduated in Film and Television from the University of Chile, and with a MA Ethnographic & Documentary Film at University College London. I also have studies in Composition, Color, Art Direction, and Lighting. I have been the cinematographer of the feature films: "Si Escuchas Atentamente" (2015), "Las Plantas" (2016), "Reinos" (2017), "Cola de Mono" (2018) and multiple national and international productions on television and advertising.
Aislinn Evans
No spitting v0.1
No Spitting v0.1 draws from hostile signage on Poplar’s Teviot Estate to craft a cultural history of spitting; class war, control, gentrification. As screen printed and distorted facsimiles of the estate’s “No Spitting” signs flash across the screen, director Aislinn Evans outlines spitting’s history as a gesture to ward off evil in northern India and evolution into the insult it is today. Interwoven with this is the history of the area, including the brutalist ex-council block Balfron Tower, now being renovated for the private market.
Aislinn Evans is an artist-filmmaker from East London. Their practice spans across experimental documentary and narrative short film. Their films focus on the city as a social space and site of class struggle, as well as folk cultures and relationships to the land. They are a student of Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, and alumna of the DYSPLA screenwriting residency.
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Clodagh Chapman
First kiss (with a girl)
A kitschy, low-fi, bubblegum-sweet glance at queer intimacy, and that special sort of 11pm-nightclub magic of late adolescence. There’s a phenomenon called “second adolescence”, where LGBTQ+ people tend to miss out on the classic teenage milestones (first kiss/first relationship/first sexual experience), and instead experience all of that in the weeks, months and years after coming out. So we often have our first kisses (with the same gender) in strobe-lit, sticky-floored basement rooms – meaning LGBTQ+ nightclubs often function as spaces of identity-consolidation.
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Clodagh is a Manchester-based filmmaker and theatre maker. Her credits include First Kiss (With A Girl), which has made the Official Selection of BIFA- and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals, and butterfly (VAULT Festival), dubbed “a brilliant show full of heart” [Guardian]. She trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating with an MA (Distinction) in Advanced Theatre Practice.
:https://clodaghchapman.co.uk/
@CloChpmn on Twitter/Instagram
Carla Geronimi
Ladon
As we drift through a mythical forest, a sense of fantasy arises when an intriguing apple starts to attract a body of lizards. Loosely revisiting the Greek myth of Ladon and the Garden of the Hesperides, observational sequences of dragon trees and creature-like reptiles evoke the mystical stories and symbols associated to them. With its tale-like narration, ‘Ladon’ is a reflection on physical existence in relation to the beliefs constructed behind it.
Carla Geronimi (b.1998, Switzerland) is an Artist Filmmaker who creates moving image works that showcase imaginary places, fictional stories and creature-like characters. Her works principally explore dreams, memory and identity with the use of non-coherent storylines and absurd narratives. Also drawn to ideas around uncanniness, anthropomorphism and sensory experiences, Carla draws her inspiration from symbols, myths and inanimate objects.
https://carlageronimi.wixsite.com/website-1
Instagram:@carlageronimi
Jacob Watkinson & Callum Rawe
Embers
A symphonic experimental short film charting the visceral and tragic process of the deterioration of memory. Embers uses analogue media such as celluloid and tape to explore themes of impermanence and contemplations on the death of consciousness through a fusion of narrativity and structuralism. The film is comprised of a combination of 16mm, 8mm and Super 8 film, naturally decayed through various means to create a powerful interplay between the images and the traces of time upon its surface.
Jacob Watkinson is a Writer, Director, and Artist working in London and Suffolk. He has a Bachelor of Arts in BA Contemporary Media Practice from the University of Westminster, receiving two Student Excellence Awards for his achievements. His narrative short film 'Our Father' is currently an official selection of ten film festivals.
Chris Furby
Hand in hand
A couple walk hand in hand along a path in a city, what kind of couple they are is only revealed as they near the end of the walk…I first imagined a couple walking hand in hand that would pan out to reveal that they were not a couple but a pair of disembodied arms…I worked on what might be at the end of the arms later… no dialogue.
Artist, curator, filmmaker, and photographer. Educated at Camberwell School of Art, London. BA 3D Design. Video work shown at the first ever video art show in this country at the Serpentine Gallery in the mid 70’s. Then as a graphic designer at the fringes of the music industry producing many designs as the Art Koop with Chris Kennedy at Better Badges - we were hardly paid at the time but this work has now become collectible. Then as a contributor of satirical and weirdly humorous photomontage to various magazines.
Nieves Mingueza
Case 3181
Case 3181 is an experimental film essay. Regarding the form, it is a visual and acoustic assembly experiment. The content is an exploration of a subject-matter of utmost importance such as the representation of violence against women. A tower symbolises the patriarchy. An installation created with white papers on the wall suggests the lack of response addressing this issue. A kind of chase through winding roads in the countryside connects with the idea of a violent persecution.
Nieves Mingueza works across photography, collage, archival material, film and installation. She often mixes fact and fiction, using multilayered visual storylines to represent complex and contemporary realities. In this way, her work challenges the traditional documentary photography and activates the archives to address social and gender issues.
Frankie Clarence & Arnold Jorge
2020: The movie trailer
Four young adults in inner-city London have their happy lives shattered by the news of the Global pandemic.
Frankie Clarence is a Professional Actor and Creative Producer having worked in USA, UK, Malawi, Brazil, Italy, South Africa, and Spain creative material that isn't just entertaining but informative. The Young man is currently on a spiritual journey and embeds his way of living in his creative art as seen in 2020 and his pre-production projects KuVina (pronounced Koo-V-Na) which translates - "giving someone positive energy especially through dancing" with the narrative aligned to Oscar movie La La Land but based in Modern hybrid multi cultural London.
(Instagram) @FrankieClarence
(Twitter) @ClarenceFrankie
Davide Vanacore
Diving Beyond
For this film I investigated themes such as consciousness, human relationship with nature, and spirituality. Walking alone in the forest during the pandemic lockdowns has been an opportunity to explore into my inner self. I choose nature then as the main location for the work, which crave for a contact with my unconscious, trying to reach unknown dimensions.
My practice is motivated by an investigation into human consciousness, altered states of mind, and our relationship with nature. The question that has sparked these interests is: what is reality? I work across moving image and painting, inspired by the works of seminal filmmakers like Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage.
IG @davide.vanacore