MAYA: THE BIRTH OF A SUPERHERO
An immersive story following Maya, an ordinary 21st Century girl, as she transforms into a uniquely female superhero whose powers derive from menstruation.
“GENUINELY EMPOWERING. THIS IS GALVANISING, BOUNDARY-PUSHING ART AT IT'S BEST.”
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— Charlotte Jansen,The Guardian
MAGIC PARTY PLACE
Shortlist Aperture Paris Photo First Book Award 2016
Shortlisted Arles Authors Book Award 2017
Shortlist Photo Espana Book of the Year 2017
Displaced and dislocated. Terminal ideologies. Replays of apocalypse scenarios.Fake news on translucent displays: distrust what you see, reject what you know. The vision mix of peripheral centre. Incoherent rancour:a polymorphous scream. An autopsy. The ruins of Europe behind us.
MAGIC PARTY PLACE maps the rise of the right in western societies through the prism of the post-industrial English landscape.
This is a fluid drama presented in space and time. The setting: the new town of Basildon, a constructed community, located 25 miles east of London.
The town is statistically average, socially conservative and voted overwhelmingly in favour of Brexit. Tracing the internal landscapes of it’s inhabitants, the work identifies a narrative of social and political dislocation within the towns sprawling and stratified housing estates.
Magic Party Place maps the psychopathology of the suburb, investigating a community which occupies the mainstream of society yet perceive themselves to have been pushed to the margins.
Magic Party Place film.
In collaboration with Channel 4 News
FIREFLIES
by Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke
Winner, ‘Best Experimental’ Aesthetica Film Festival 2022
Fireflies is a work of auto-fiction, filtering documentary and performance through the lens of feminist science-fiction to tell the story of violence, survival and world-building.
Alona Pardo (Barbican), writes, "Fireflies underscores a matrilineal heritage and genealogy that speaks to the violence which is all too often bestowed on womxn's bodies, highlighting female oppression and the hetero-patriarchal cultural values that are also a shared trauma, and notions of self love.”
Creating a dynamic interplay that transports the viewer into a multiverse outside of the space time continuum —One film is narrative: crash landed and alone, an astronaut find herself on a barren planet where time collapses and the past, present and future merge. The other film is a work of cybernetic feminism.
Using 16mm film and archives, Fireflies disrupts notions of time to locate the work in its own terra.
CENTRALIA: GHOST DANCE
by Poulomi Basu & CJ Clarke
Collected by Victoria & Albert Museum (London) and Harvard Art Museums (USA).
A narrative of “docu-fiction,” ‘Centralia: Ghost Dance’ (which takes its cues from Basu’s critically praised book, ‘Centralia’) transforms the story of a decades-long indigenous guerrilla war in Central India into an ambiguous narrative that unsettles our understanding of truth, media, violence, feminism, and environmentalism within a global context.
The films captures the struggle between forest-dwelling indigenous populations in central India where the coveted mineral deposits of iron ore, bauxite, and coal are mined and exploited by outside forces, including the Indian government. The displaced tribal population has responded and rebelled since the 1960s by organizing as Maoist revolutionaries called Naxalites. In 2009 this simmering conflict esculated into a full blown insurgency, pushing the country to the brink of civil war.
The film draws us in with lyrical images of mysterious landscapes and figures. It is a work of science fiction that uses the very real global ecocide to speculate on the end of the world, the continued dispossession of indigenous groups and the further erosion of women’s rights. An eco-feminist narrative that imagines that the only survivors of this ecological holocaust are a group of women sent out into the cosmos, as a final act of survival.
At it’s heart, the film asks a very simple, urgent question: how did humanity get here?
Just ONE OF THOSE THINGS
Decade long exploration of Loyalism in Northern Ireland.