Manchester Art Gallery – Mary Greg Collection

A series of short films commissioned by Manchester Art Gallery as part of the Mary Greg project.
Mary Greg collected everyday domestic objects during the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was particularly interested in pre-industrial handmade objects and wanted to preserve examples of traditional artisan skills. The majority of [...]
Trailer: The Lover And The Beloved: A Journey Into Tantra

A short trailer for our soon to be released feature length documentary. The film is about one man’s journey across northern India and his search for enlightenment. Rajive McMullen, a history teacher suffering from a debilitating illness, makes the painful journey into the heart of Tantra, searching for meaning in holy shrines, coming close to [...]
Trailer: Born
Born is the journey of a father and a midwife, brought to life by the filmmaker’s engagement with two couples who undergo very different experiences of childbirth. Beautiful and mesmeric, Born is an open consideration resonating with the connection between birth and death and the fear inherent in both these momentous processes. The film was [...]
Stories Waiting to be Told – Manchester Art Gallery

A series of short films commissioned by Manchester Art Gallery as part of the Mary Greg project.
Mary Greg collected everyday domestic objects during the late 1800s and early 1900s. She was particularly interested in pre-industrial handmade objects and wanted to preserve examples of traditional artisan skills. The majority of this strange and peculiarly engaging [...]
Manchester Art Gallery – Visual Dialogues

A short film comissioned by Manchester Art Gallery documenting the Visual Dialogues Project.
The Visual Dialogues project works with young people ‘creative consultants‘ who work with curators, education and exhibition specialists to create an exhibition in response to artworks on loan from Tate Britain.
Liberate Your Avatar
A documentary exploring a live, public, interactive installation at Manchester’s Urban Screens Conference in 2007. Artist Paul Sermon and Lets Go Global collaborated to produce an ambitious technical experiment where the public were able to interact with avatars from Second Life.
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