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"Safety in numbers" 2008
A melancholic portrait of the soul of a public building. Observed through the ariel acrobatics of dust motes and the gentle warming of carpeted floors by the late afternoon sun the internal spaces of the venerable district court building of Berlin reveal themselves to be a comic mixture of austere and baroque, no one seems to inhabit this building, lift motors hum tunelessly, typewriters remember fondly the small arms fire of long forgotten skirmishes and ghostly voices recite echoey monologues, but not a single living soul bears witness to their veracity.
Running time: 21min 36seconds
"Der Entfesslungskunstler" 2008
In translation, The Escapologist this short experimental film while exploring the theme of imigration, also investigates the formal relationships between images, the process of narrative construction and the rhythms thereby generated.
A poetic journey which visits three european countries and encourages the viewer to participate both emotionally and iintellectually in the construction of a story.
Running time: 6min 08seconds
"Do I dare to eat a peach" 2007
We live our lives with water; it is the ubiquitous solvent of our daily dirt. We all need fresh water to drink but everyday we use billions of litres of drinking water to wash away the abjected dirt of our own, and of other organism’s organic decomposition. We will need in the very near future to re-assess our use of water for such processes and along with that our relationship to the abject.
Specially commisioned for the Hydromemories project, This film locates itself interstitially between domestic space and the Ocean in order to examine the three-way relationship between society, the abject and water.
Running time: 8min 30seconds
"My invisible friend" 2007
A short experimental "found footage" film produced from random material supplied by members of the Invigorate project, an artists led initiative in southern england, via the internet. The film seeks to explore the effects of accident and opportunism within a collaborative environment.
Running time: 2min 29seconds
"There will be time to murder and create" 2007
A naked woman runs endlessly up an industrial stairwell, seemingly scared half to death of something unseen that follows from below. While addressing the standard cliches of film that one runs upstairs to escape and that a woman is always persued and is often naked, this film also questions the nature of reality and of duration.
Running time: 3min 36seconds
"A Fate Amenable to Change" 2006
Time, recursivity, loss, and discovery are explored through the experiences of a young woman stranded in time and in space. Her journey is a dialogue with the beauty which is found in the unplanned, uncontrolled, and the unforeseen. More.
Running time: 12min 39seconds
"Whitelake Academy" 2006
Whitelake academy is a special place. At first glance an ordinary art school but why are all the staff and students trying to escape? What are the nurses for? What is the seemingly unrememberable key No? And what does happen to professor Brinkmann? For the answers to these and more questions watch the next episode of...
Running time: 10min 19seconds
Untitled #3 2006
Downstairs in the kitchens the cooks were already preparing the evening meal and the smell of institutioal food filled the narrow corridors. It had been a colder than usual spring and outside in the parterre garden the crocusses were just starting to bloom. Jane lay back on her bed and considered the small rectangle of blue sky visible through the window.
"Weißbär" 2006
Threat is a matter of scale and perspective.
No one survives their childhood undamaged.
Running time: 1min 49seconds
A music video for the single "Together once again" by international award winning songwriter/musician Mark Eden
"X Mal Nach Erkner" 2005
We believe that life is a journey between two points, but this is not the case. We leave our destination constantly, and we come always to our point of outset.
"Creative Tension" 2005
In this short film which is a documentation of a performance which took place at a major University in the north of England in 2005. Gillian Holt talks with humour about the vulnerability of a woman in the still male dominated world of art, The ambiguity of gender roles, and the supreme effort we as women have to make in order to be seen at all, let alone seen as equal.
Running time: 3min 33seconds
"A decline in international trade" 2005
In 1929 the town council and a group of business leaders of a city in the north of England decided to mount a spectacular exhibition to encourage international trade with the area.
This very brief film juxtaposes and thus amplifies the inequities of the exhibition of a black family as a curiosity, and the practice popular in England until the late 1970s of white men adopting black makeup and curly wigs and appearing on a Saturday primetime television variety show in a parody of black musicians. The film deliberately uses the acute discomfort and embarrassment attendant to the tackling by a white woman of this subject to foreground these feelings and to expose the underlying prejudices.
"The Ever Circling Wolves of Disrupted Circadian Rhythm" 2005
Robbed of sleep and confused from long distance air travel, the mind becomes again an animal, and the modern world is a future amusement park in a forgotten forest.
Running Time 4minutes 15seconds
"Horse Stingers" 2005
According to folklore in north America the dragonfly or horse stinger flies into the bedrooms of naughty children in the night and sews shut all the orifices of their bodies.
The needle is a remarkable tool, it causes damage, and it repairs.
Running Time 6min 33seconds
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