Projects
Dream
Music/Story
Dream is a series of pieces about dreams - my dreams, your dreams and everyone else’s dreams. A mixture of fact, fiction and wild fantasy ranging from impossible cities through to succubi, Dream mixes music, stories and sound design to create a genre defying album - Stranger Things meets War of the Worlds, but no pictures (outside the ones conjured in your head)
The Dream project is a hardback book that includes music, words and pictures. Inside the book is a QR code that links to a webpage, where there’s an audio file for each chapter. Each chapter is a track, as the stories were driven by the music. That music is based around vintage 1980s synths and drum machines from Geoff Barrow’s (Beak>, Portishead) studio in Bristol, with guitar and drums on top, Post-Punk meets Post-Rock. Well, perhaps...
The Line We Crossed
Page75 Productions (dir: Liz Smith)
A nonviolent civil resistance group is demanding the UK government stop licensing new oil, gas and coal projects in the face of the climate emergency. The more they resist, the more the government clamps down on their right to protest and subjects them to arrests and harsh prison sentences. This film exposes the chilling effect of draconian laws being passed that affect the democratic rights of all British citizens. Are we at a tipping point of no return for our democratic rights as well as for the climate crisis?
The Conspiracists
Page75 Productions (dir: Liz Smith)
After a January 6th insurrectionist is sentenced to two and a half years in prison for her part in the storming of The Capitol, a researcher and a filmmaker embark on a road trip with her from DC to Idaho. En route they visit her fellow insurrectionists and hear about their respective journeys of “awakening”. The insurrectionist takes the researcher and filmmaker on an intense journey into her labyrinth of conspiracy, but is disappointed when, by the end of the trip, she has not succeeded in her mission to elevate them out of their 3D world and help them to see the truth.
Decayed
Unpleasantville (dir: Kim Halliday)
10 years, 10 pieces, 10 short films or a feature length documentary, each a crime that has, as yet, been unpunished. A look back on a decade from Austerity to Cambridge Analytica and beyond. Plunderphonics, newsreel, skewer-style editing and new music from Kim Halliday a review of the decade between 2010 and 2019, selecting a story from each year.
Desiderium
Music/Story
Desiderium is a latin word defining desire, longing, or grief for something lost. This Desiderium is a story about long hot summers, council estates and ghosts with progressive and post-rock music. Containing 13 pieces featuring both spoken word and instrumental tracks, the album is rooted in personal truth interspersed with ancient mythology and history. Partly an insight into his upbringing, growing up through the summers of the mid-Seventies, into the Winter of Discontent and Thatcher’s Britain, the album weaves in themes of whispered ghost stories captivated by the past.
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Unpleasantville
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