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.
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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.
ZANG TUMB TUMB
2019 12 mins - Roland Denning for Rita Says and the Jerico Orchestra
Zang Tumb Tumb, The Battle of Adrianople, 1912 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Presented at Limehouse Town Hall, May 12th 2019
Part of a series of films of performances by Rita Says and the Jerico Orchestra at Limehouse Town Hall of 20th century avant-garde composers
Other films in the series include La Monte Young Composition 1960 Number 7 (2019), Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning (2018) and Arseny Avramov's Symphony Of Sirens (2017)
A tragicomedy in three acts, inspired by the EU Referendum, in a universe that lies somewhere between Beckett and panto.
Based on a sketch written for the Cockpit Theatre, March 2019. With Howard Lee and Simon Holmes, music by Ed Dowie.
2019, 18 minutes
Films
FILMS MADE FOR teleSUR
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 more of them here.
