Featured
Collection of our all-time favourite projects from the archives…
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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
Live cinema performance uniting a treasure trove of sampled archive 16mm film loops with an bombastic sonic collage of analog tape loops to form a unique audiovisual adventure on 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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ๆใฎๆฒณ : TOKINOKAWA
Audio-visual Installation exploring the rich cultural history of Japan through the concept of โa river in timeโ 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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[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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Youโve 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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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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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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LUMINOUS
Video design and creative direction for the British Film Institutes biannual Luminous fundraising gala at the Guild Hall in London
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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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SOUNDFIELD
Immersive interactive audiovisual installation created for Wirded magazine for an event in the historic wind tunnel at Farnborough Airport
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SOLILOQUY
Immersive audio-visual performance featuring Idris Elba celebrating the importance of film for the British Film Institute’s first Luminous Gala fund raising event in London
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Video Thesaurus
Interactive audio-visual installation for Getty images exploring their extensive collection of moving image material via keywords and custom software development
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THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA CONCERT VISUALS
Concert visuals for legendary British jazz ensemble for a one-off performance at the Sydney Opera House commissioned by Graphic Festival
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Added Value?
A collection of six documentary films exploring different designers and makers practices created for the UK Crafts Council’s touring exhibition ‘Added Value?’
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Light Orchestra
Visual music animation designed for the LED screen exterior of Wembley Arena commissioned by Barclaycard
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The Body Adorned
Audio-visual installation commissioned by the Horniman Museum exploring peoples perception of each other through dress in the city
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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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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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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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DIALOG
Media art installation exploring the connections between language, technology and their effects on society by Christopher Thomas Allen
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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