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SuperEverything* Album Artwork
Deluxe gate fold Album artwork for the release of the music from SuperEverything* live cinema project commissioned by British Council Malaysia
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Panser L’Inacceptable
A dreamy music video collaboration with artist Laetitia Sadier exploring inner and outer landscapes, feelings, memory, and healing
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Atemporal 2.0
A dual screen, surround sound live cinema performance that explores themes of time, memory and meaning, in remembrance of British poet, art critic and painter John Berger
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The Consensual Hallucination
Audio-visual performance that unites an archive of 16mm film loops with an improvised, sonic collage of cassette tape loops, performed through a four-track to form a unique audiovisual analog adventure into the nature of reality.
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Adrift
Live cinema performance combining analog photography, video, and electro-acoustic collage that explores liminal landscapes and non-places to tell an audiovisual story about migration, borders, climate and globalisation
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AURA
Music video for artist Hatis Noit contextualising BFI archive films on Japan with new footage to explore notions of the past, present and a future
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時の河 : TOKINOKAWA
Audio-visual Installation exploring the rich cultural history of Japan through the concept of “a river in time” featuring music by Midori Takada
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Ichi:Marks In Time
This is a feature documentary, a story about culture, colonialism, and the power of photographs told by a community in West Africa.
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Lines, Faces, Fragments
A short documentary portrait of the Nigerian artist and ceramicist Ozioma Onuzulike filmed in Nsukka, Nigeria
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[Re]Entanglements
An exhibition exploring the legacies of colonialism in the present through the re-engagement with an early anthropological archive gathered in West Africa
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Unspoken stories
Five monologues performed by West African storytellers bring new narrative to a series of characters found in the photographs of a colonial archive
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You’ve Been Murdered
A music video for UK-based electronic recording artist Vulgar Flower exploring pleasure and pain, nature and the unnatural
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Painting with Sound
A short documentary portrait film about composer and audio-visual artist Tim Cowie commissioned by Sennheiser for the 2019 Berlin IFA Event
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Faces | Voices
Award-winning short documentary film that complicates any simple reading of a collection of images from the archives of colonial anthropologist N. W. Thomas
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Sound in pictures
An audio-visual art project exploring the history and processes of visual music and animation through a process of co-creation, workshops, and experimental live performance
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Fiesta
Live audio-visual performance created in collaboration with UK composer and electronic artist Matthew Herbert reflecting on Brexit
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Tommynow: drive
Immersive audiovisual installation for the entrance of Tommy hilfiger’s Spring 2018 runway show at Milan Fashion week
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DMU : Designer Maker User
Film installation commissioned by The Design Museum in London for the entrance to the permanent exhibition on design that explores the relationship between designers, makers, and users
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Tommy Hilfiger Stand
Immersive video installation created in collaboration with fashion photographer for Tommy Hilfiger’s stand at Petti Uomo fashion fair in Florence Italy
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Notion of Duration
Video art installation exploring notions of time, religion, and our relationship with technology for media arts exhibition in Eusebius Church in Arnhem
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Splice Festival
London’s first dedicated audio-visual performing arts festival co-created by the media arts community with the support of Creative Europe and Arts Council England
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Digital artisans
An immersive live event for iconic Swiss brand Victorinox in central London featuring custom video mapping and a specially curated film programme featuring work from leading international media artists
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Watson r&D
Video design for contemporary dance theatre company C12’s production Watson funded by Arts Council England
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BLINDSIDER
IDM music video developed from the live cinema performance project True Fictions featuring leading free-style NY rappers and produced by Scanone
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True Fictions: Album Artwork
Gatefold album artwork for the release of the co-created music from our seminal live cinema project exploring truth and myth in New York state
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SOUNDFIELD
Immersive interactive audiovisual installation created for Wirded magazine for an event in the historic wind tunnel at Farnborough Airport
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SuperEverything*
A landmark live cinema performance project exploring the relationship between identity, ritual and place across the landscape of Malaysia commissioned by the British Council
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VOYAGERS
Large scale audio-visual installation for the Voyagers Gallery at the National Maritime Museum utilising custom made video mapping software
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How Hip Hop Changed The World
Title sequence for Channel 4 commissioned TV show charting the history of Hip Hop and its impact of on popular culture
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LDN-REDUX
A multi-screen. multi-channel live audio-visual performance exploring London’s physical and virtual information landscapes over a 24 hour cycle
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CHASE & STATUS
Ground breaking concert video design featuring a stellar line up of guest vocalists for the now legendary UK drum and bass duo Chase & Status
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LDN24
LDN24 was a audio-visual art commission for the Museum of London that presented an anthropomorphic portrait of the city over a 24 hour cycle using film, sound and data
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D&AD VISUALS
Event visuals exploring design and media production processes for the prestigious D&AD awards at the iconic Camden Roundhouse in London
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CRAFTCUBE
Touring installation project telling the story of a series of craft objects through pairs of documentary films and a enclosed space commissioned by the Crafts Council UK
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LDN-GH1
Short film featuring a track by DJ Food created to show case Panasonic’s new GH1 mirrorless camera by documenting life in London
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Notify
Audio visual installation for Fashion brand Notify exploring their various production processes created in collaboration with Ron Arad for the Petti Uomo in Florence
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SCHLIMAZELTOV!
Award winning documentary short film exploring the concept of luck through a collection of voices from London’s Jewish community
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LEGACY NOW YOUTH PANEL
Live performance and video mapping installation co-created through a series of workshops with young people from the 2012 host boroughs exploring the Olympic site and planned development of Stratford and Newham
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DIALOG
Media art installation exploring the connections between language, technology and their effects on society by Christopher Thomas Allen
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BLACKBERRY EXHIBITION STANDS
Visual production for Blackberry’s trade show stands utilising stealth L.E.D. technology
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BLACKBERRY BOLD LAUNCH
Visual experience for the UK launch for the Blackberry Bold 3G mobile
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TRUTH MOVEMENTS
Short documentary film that unearths a tangled web of conspiracies and divergent views surrounding the events of 911
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HOME
Short film exploring the collective search for self through the notion of “home”, commissioned by Channel 4
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EIGHT QUESTIONS
A short animated film exploring environmental issues produced through a collaborative 10 day workshop in Sapporro Japan
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COLLECTING A KALEIDOSCOPE
a short documentary film for a touring exhibition that explores the personal collections of one of the crafts council’s founders: Ralph Turner
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JERWOOD APPLIED ARTS PRIZE
Collection of film portraits on 6 designers commissioned by the Crafts Council for the Jerwood Applied Arts prizes exhibition of jewellery
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TRANSIT Photography
A collection of 35mm slide photography that explore the transient non-spaces encountered when travelling
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THE LIVING ROOM
Mixed media gallery installation exploring the theme of domestic space through the voices and homes of eight Londoners
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DOMESTIC ARCHAEOLOGY Screen PRINTS
a selection of silk screen print work created for the Domestic Archaeology Exhibtion at the Museum Of The Home
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POSTER DESIGNS
A selection of poster designs from different projects
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LO-REZ DOLORES TABLA RASA
exploration of surface, form and motion for exhibition of new furniture by ron arad at the marconi gallery in milan
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THE LONGCUT TOUR VISUALS
Concert visuals for the Manchester Indy band ‘The Long Cut’
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ARTICULATED EXHIBITION
Media art exhibition at the OXO Barge House building on London’s Southbank exploring the thresholds between public and private space
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PROTOCOL Photography
a collection of photographic lamda prints exploring Transitions, boundaries and thresholds around the world
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DOMESTIC ARCHAEOLOGY
A collaborative media art exhibition at The Museum of the Home exploring the changing nature of individuals living spaces in London
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TRUE FICTIONS
Live cinema performance project exploring truth and myth across the state of New York, created in collaboration with a group of New York musicians and in dialog with Native American communities
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THE Z-AXIS
Live cinema performance that remixes, collages and rescores the classic 1950’s Hollywood film The Fountain Head with a post-modern twist
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HIDING IN THE LIGHT
Retrospective of photography, graphic design and print work by founder and creative director Christopher Thomas Allen
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THE CHIMERA PROJECT: NEWCASTLE & GATESHEAD
Co-created film project painting a portrait of a place and its culture, informed through a unique collaboration with local artists from Newcastle and Gateshead
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DOMESTIC ARCHAEOLOGY WORKSHOPS
workshop project with an intergeneration group exploring the home through memory and the creation of personal monuments
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OVERTURE: SOUTH BANK CENTRE
Multi-screen audio-visual piece celebrating the history and cultural significance of London’s most famous concert hall projected onto its exterior for its re-opening
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SUM OF THREE PARTS
video art installation for the entrance of bloomberg’s london hq
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REQUIEM FOR CONCRETE
Exterior video projections on the Palazzo Dei Congressi for Dissonanze5 Festival in Rome
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ZERO 7 TOUR VISUALS
Concert visuals for Zero 7’s UK National Tour
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THE LIVING SCREEN
Promotional film for proposed public art project in Camden Town designed by Ron Arad
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IN PASSING
Award winning animated digital short film exploring the psychogeography of inner city Manchester through the experiences of a partially sighted woman
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THE CHIMERA PROJECT: MIDDLESBROUGH
Digital film project mapping the city of Middlesborough created through a unique open source collaboration with local artists
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VENGEANCE VALLEY
An audio visual remix of a classic old western film created for Addictive TV’s Mixmasters series which was broadcast in the UK on ITV
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LG VU
A film made to communicate the concept for a wireless touch screen computer as a pitch to LG by the designer Ron Arad
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THE DRAKE MUSIC PROJECT
Creative workshops and a series of live performances with a group of disabled musicians working with the disablity charity Drake Music
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FASHION Motions Graphics
Visual mix of motion graphics produced for different fashion brands
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DSP Album Artwork
Album Artwork for UK Hip-Hop outfit Dynamic Syncopation for Ninja Tune
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RE:COVERED TITLES
Title sequence for BBC1 music program
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GRAND HOTEL SALONE
360 degree immersive environment created for Architect & Designer Ron Arad’s exhibit at the Milan Furniture Fair
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APB: ALL POINTS BETWEEN
Land mark live cinema performance that weaves a kaleidoscopic audio-visual journey around the world through documentary film footage, analog slides and 16mm to reveal a series of contrasting views
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THE CITY OF HOLLOW MOUNTAINS
Documentary short tracing the journey of a Venice Beach street philosopher from the west to the east coast of the USA
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KINOBE Album & Single Artwork
A collection of single and album artwork for the UK band
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THUMBNAIL EXPRESS
Experimental documentary short film tracing the tangential journeys of a Venice Beach street philosopher across the USA
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MUSIC WITH NO NAME Album Artwork
Artwork for “Music with no Name” vol1. by the label Electric Melt created for legendary graphic designer Ian Swift
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SCANONE EP Artwork
Record sleeve design for UK IDM and electronic pioneer Scanone
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REEL 9
Audio visual track made for the Mixmasters TV series that deconstructs The Light Surgeons tools and processes
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STEALING BEAUTY
An immersive art installation that deconstructed the analog tools and processes of the studio at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 1999
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U.N.K.L.E. Concert Visuals
CONCERT VISUALS for U.N.K.L.E. Dj sets & live shows promoting the seminal Psyence Fiction Ablum in 1999
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FUNKI PORCINI Single Artwork
Graphic Design for Funki Porcini 12″ Release “Rockit Soul” on Ninja Tune
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SNEAKER PIMPS Remix Album Artwork
Album & single artwork for UK trip-hip pioneers the Sneaker Pimps
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OCULARIS
An audio visual remix of cult sci-fi cinema commissioned by the London Film Makers Co-Op and scored live by the Ninja Tune artists the Herbaliser and Dynamic Syncopation
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WALL CRAWLING INSECT BREAKS
Music video for the UK Hip-Hop and Jazz outfit The Herbalizer’s track Wall Crawling Insect Breaks, released on Ninja Tune
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CORNERSHOP Artwork
Album & Single artwork for the British indie rock band Cornershop
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SNEAKER PIMPS CONCERT VISUALS
Analog 16mm film and slide concert visuals for UK trip-hop pioneers The Sneaker Pimps
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PROPHETS OF DA CITY Single Artwork
Record sleeve design for South African Hip-Hop group Prophets Of The City
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Sunday Best 7″ Artwork
Artwork for Sunday Best Recordings first ever single release
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MANTRA IDENT
Analog film motion graphics ident for UK label Mantra Records
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NINJA TUNE IDENTS
Analog film and slide motion graphic idents and club visuals created for legendary UK record label Ninja Tune
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PHLUIDE Album Artwork
Artwork for the BIFIDUS ACIDOPHILUS release by the ambient group Phluide for Nation Records
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AZUKX Album Artwork
Artwork for AZUKX’s 124 Stomp single for Mantra Recordings