Directing
Sammy Holden
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Directing
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15 titles
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Three people search for their ideal selves in a fictional world until those ideal selves come to life.
Between Ourselves
2026
NRAfter a transformative surgery upends his relationship, Riley is forced to rely on his partner's care as they both brace for the moment of truth - will their love deepen or finally fold?
FOLD
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The horror of the liminal zone between being an artist and chronic illness.
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
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NRLate for his lectures, a young trans man meets the ghost of a woman who died hundreds of years ago.
The Broad Wood
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A narrative fiction short following the fantasy of Dungeons and Dragons and how the game encourages the full embodiment of a character and player's identities.
Zounds!
2021
NRTwo intelligent biological machines come to awareness in their artificial domestic environment. Over time, the machines learn more than they could have imagined about intelligence, art, life and love.
Henry + Celty
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Behind the camera
Three people search for their ideal selves in a fictional world until those ideal selves come to life.
Between Ourselves
2026
Three people search for their ideal selves in a fictional world until those ideal selves come to life.
Between Ourselves
2026
Three people search for their ideal selves in a fictional world until those ideal selves come to life.
Between Ourselves
2026
NRAfter a transformative surgery upends his relationship, Riley is forced to rely on his partner's care as they both brace for the moment of truth - will their love deepen or finally fold?
FOLD
—
The horror of the liminal zone between being an artist and chronic illness.
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
—
NRLate for his lectures, a young trans man meets the ghost of a woman who died hundreds of years ago.
The Broad Wood
—
A narrative fiction short following the fantasy of Dungeons and Dragons and how the game encourages the full embodiment of a character and player's identities.
Zounds!
2021
NRTwo intelligent biological machines come to awareness in their artificial domestic environment. Over time, the machines learn more than they could have imagined about intelligence, art, life and love.
Henry + Celty
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Three combined analogue 16mm shorts, cameraless films that utilise handmade techniques, making it impossible to ignore symbols and motifs of transness that have been directly scratched and painted onto the film as a medium, combined with the voices of trans people and allies in protest.
Trans - Iterations 1 to 3
2024
What matters when a family history is much more complex than it first appears? The Elusive follows a journey of discovery and the start of a re-evaluation of the historic Liverpool potteries.
The Elusive
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Dreaming a way through shame and chronic illness.
Night Holding Still
2026
Non-binary, trans and genderqueer audience members discuss coded and direct non-binary, trans and queer representations in film, spanning from the earliest films to the most recent.
In Their View
2021
Tish sends a message to her girlfriend, Venus, who is exploring another planet.
Earth To Venus
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How can trans and non-binary people escape from the restrictions of media views and limitations of representations? Across three sections a genderqueer dancer comes up against forms of filmic erasure, maintaining their identity through historical and modern dance movement, until they find a way to break free.
Camera - Iteration 2
2023
An experimental dance film exploring the tenuous, hidden place of non-binary and trans people in an alternate film history.
Camera - Iteration 1
2023
