Rory Pilgrim // TATE
‘Activism can come from a space of joy’
What keeps us afloat in uncertain times? In this film, artist and composer Rory Pilgrim meets with the eight members of Green Shoes Arts who collaborated on RAFTS, a film and later live performance created over three years during the Covid-19 pandemic. Exploring the process of connection in different ways, from digital to embodied, verbal to musical, Rory's practice is underpinning by a concern as to how we might collectively contribute to social change.
Director Hollie Black // Producer Sophie Wakefield // DOP Matthew Somerville // Editor Jerome Monnot
BREATHE ARTS
Breathe Dance is a pioneering new collaboration between Breathe Arts Health Research, Guy’s Hospital Older Persons Assessment Unit Physiotherapy Team, and Dance Practitioner, Stella Howard.
Directed by Dieter Deswarte // Produced & Edited by Yarrow Films // Camera & Sound by Matthew Somerville
Where is Belfast?
A short documentary about integration in Belfast, exploring the place and power of ethnic minorities in the new Northern Ireland. We follow three young people as they live a day in the life in West and East Belfast respectively. The film explores how much the past influences the future of Northern Ireland, exploring the extent to which immigration is a catalyst for change.
Director Priya Biring // DOP Matthew Somerville // Editor Greg Pittard
Mary Sibande / Somerset House
A film with Mary Sibande, one of South Africa’s most prominent contemporary artists. Her exhibition I Came Apart at the Seams is at Somerset House until 5 Jan 2020. We invited a group of British women working with textiles and fabrics to have a conversation with Mary about her work and practice.
Director Andy Mundy-Castle // Camera Matthew Somerville
AYAHUASCA
Filmmaker Tom Swindell is given exclusive access to the first-ever UK Government-funded medical trial into the traditional plant medicine, Ayahuasca. We follow Tom on his personal healing journey, Simon Ruffell, a psychiatric doctor from London and his colleague Nige Netzband, a psychopharmacologist from Cheshire, as they embark on a journey into the depths of the Amazon Jungle in an attempt to discover the true medical potential of this ancient psychedelic brew. They hope that this controversial work may hold the key to treating the ever-growing mental health crisis in UK.
Director Tom Swindell // DOP Matthew Somerville
STRONGWOMAN
Newcomer Zoe Thompson competes in Europe's Strongest Woman competition.
Director LIAM SAINT-PIERRE // Producer HUGH HARTFORD and ANSON HARTFORD // Camera MATT SOMERVILLE // Client RED BULL
Mind Reading Algorithms
are Stealing our Democracy!
Political advertising has got smarter. But have we? This quirky drama-documentary, combining expert interviews with a good old-fashioned alien invasion melodrama, introduces us to some of the amazing techniques being employed by advertisers, explains how data from social media is fuelling them, and investigates whether our democracy is under attack.
Should we be changing our online behaviour? Will the data-guzzling aliens be defeated?
Director - Adam Ay // Producer - Fred Grace // DOP - Caroline Bridges // Camera - Matthew Somerville // Funded by Film London & Lush