Films
FILMS MADE WITH MURRAY ANDERSON-WALLACE / PATIENT STORIES
For the last decade I have been making films, both dramas and documentaries, with Murray Anderson-Wallace of PATIENT STORIES to provoke debate and inform about safety and quality issues in healthcare.
You can see them here.
more archive here
A feature length documentary on how the US government created a myth that took over the world
World Premiere, Sheffield Doc/Fest June 2013
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A documentary about the last month of a retiring dentist in London, his irrepressible assistant and his clientele, who range from film stars to road sweepers.
A film about work, ageing, community, relationships and teeth.
2013, 20 minutes
teleSUR is a pan-South American TV channel for which activist, writer and producer Tariq Ali produces a weekly one hour programme. Between 2015 & 2017 I made 15 short films for its arts slot, Rear Window, including two on cinema and propaganda and one on Jean-Luc Godard and features on contemporary artists including Thomas Hirschhorn, Peter Kennard and Red Saunders.
You can see them here.
LA ZAD - Zone à Défendre (Zone to Defend)
2017 2 x 14mins - Roland Denning & Kypros Kyprianou for Dartmouth Films/teleSUR
For decades there has been a local campaign of resistance against the construction of a second airport near the city of Nantes, Brittany. This resistance culminated in the establishment of a self-organised autonomous zone, known as the ZAD. Over 40,000 people took part in creative acts of disobedience to defend this zone, a non-hierarchical community with its own bakeries, brewery, newspaper and radio station.
Part 1 (above) shows the history of La Zad. Part 2 (below) shows day to day life in the zone. Made for Rear Window on the pan-South American TV channel teleSUR
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A series of eight short animations based on the experiences of a robot debut novelist called Roland and his attempts to secure a literary agent.