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CARAVAGGIO
Feature film for the EXHIBITION ON SCREEN series of documentaries
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VAN GOGH
Poets & Lovers
Feature film for the EXHIBITION ON SCREEN series of documentaries
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SEED
Feature film about the work of artist Jorge Orta
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CARAVAGGIO
This feature length film explores and illuminates the tubulent but brilliant life of the genius artist Michangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. In Cinemas from 11th November 2025
TATSUMI ORIMOTO
A Cosmic Chaos
A short fim about the controversial Japanese artist Tatsumi Orimoto which features 'Breadman' performances and works made with is elderly mother Odai.

SEED
A feature film about the artist Jorge Orta and his poetic journey through an epic landscape, which reflects on the loss of innocence, oppressive states and the cruelty of man - 2024
VAN GOGH: Poets & Lovers
Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular artists in the world. This feature length film explores and illuminates the 5 star exhibition that showed at the National Gallery, London. In Cinemas from 6th November 2024

VERMEER
The Greatest Exhibition
The arts documentary that is breaking cinema box office records

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TATSUMI ORIMOTO
A Cosmic Chaos
FAFF - Best Short Documentary 2023
FAFF - The Audience Award 2023
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VERMEER
The Greatest Exhibition
Feature film about the largest exhibition of Vermeer paintings in history. Exculusively from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Opening in Cinemas from 18th April 2023
JOHN SINGER SARGENT
Fashion & Swagger
Feature film about The greatest portrait painter of his era from the MFA Boston and Tate Britain, in Cinemas from 16th April 2024
LUCIAN FREUD
A Self Portrait
Feature film about one of Britian's greatest modern artists, told through his self-portraits. Opening in Cinemas from 14th January 2020
TOKYO STORIES
Feature film for the EXHIBITION ON SCREEN series of documentaries. A portrait of a city told over 400 years. in cinemas from 23rd May 2023.

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Chernobyl
MARY QUANT
Video installations celebrating the ledgendary designs of one of Britian's most influencial designers. V&A Museum, London and Dundee 2019
POEM OF A HOUSE
Red House, National trust
Video installation in the house of the famous British designer William Morris.
Heavy Water: A Film for Chernobyl
Documentary about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster based on poems by Mario Petrucci. More4/Sky Arts
OPEN UP
Royal Opera House
Large video installation in the new foyer of the Royal Opera House

 

 
War Horse
VICTOR PAPANEK
Politics of Design
Video installation for Vitra Design Museum, Germany, 2018
SUNFLOWERS
Feature film about one of the world's most iconic series of paintings. Opening in Cinemas from 20th May 2021
Making War Horse
Documentary of the making of the National Theatre's smash hit stage show as it moves to the West End. More4/Sky Arts/National Theatre
THE LUKHANG
Double screen video installation for Wellcome Collection exhibition Tibet's Secret Temple - Opening November 2015
 
PISSARRO
Father of Impressionism
Feature film about Impressionism's oldest and most important artist. Filmed at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford and the Kunstmuseum Basel. In cinemas from 24 May 2022
MICHELANGELO
Love and Death
Feature film exploring the work of one of the world's most famous artists. In Cinemas in June 2017
Van Gogh & Japan
Feature film exploring the influence of Japanese art on one of the world's most famous artist. Opening in Cinemas in June 2019
Art360 Project
and ArtThings
Series of short documentaries commissioned by Art360 featuring artists discussing archive and legacy.
 
Altenberg Wayne McGregor Girl with a Pearl Earring
Altenberg: The Little Pocket Mirror
Documentary about the controversial Austrian writer made with Gemma Blackshaw at Plymouth University
Thinking with the Body
Mind and movement in the work of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance - Wellcome Collection
Sept 19 - Oct 27
Girl with a Pearl Earring:
And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis
Feature film exploring the mysteries behind one of the world's most iconic painting. Opening in Cinemas in 2015
DEGAS
Passion for Perfection
Feature film exploring the work of one of the world's most famous artists. In Cinemas in Nov 2018
 
Everything Flows Dreamscape
Everything Flows Documentaries
Four short artist documentaries for the exhibition 'Everything flows: the art of getting in the zone'
Dreamscape
Video for new musical composition by Simon Emmerson which he performs with Kate Ryder (piano), and Jane Chapman (harpsichord).
PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN: Monet to Matisse
Feature film exploring artists who used the garden as a powerful motif in their work. In cinemas 2016
NORTH
Video collaboration with artist Alex Hartley set in the high arctic.
 
Hieronymus Bosch
Museum of the White Horse
Documentary about the making of a travelling museum dedicated to white horses by Tania Kovats
CANALETTO
& The Art of Venice
Feature film exploring the work of one of Italy's most famous artists. Opening in Cinemas in Sept 2017
The Curious World of HIERONYMUS BOSCH
Feature film exploring the work of one of the world's most curious artists.
NOWHEREISLAND
The filming of an expedition to the Arctic and creation of an artwork by Alex Hartley
 
VINCENT van GOGH: A New Way of Seeing
Feature film exploring the life and work behind one of the world's most iconic artists. In Cinemas in 2015
MANGA
Video installation for The British Museum, 2019
GOYA: Visions of Flesh and Blood
Feature film exploring the life and work behind one of the world's visionary artists. Opening in Cinemas in 2015
THE DANISH COLLECTOR
Delacroix to Gauguin
Feature film about one of Denmark's finest collections of impressionist art and the man who assembled it. Opening in Cinemas from 30th November 2021
 
Amazonia Xenon
Amazonia
A video project with Lucy + Jorge Orta at the Natural History Museum
'Albert Dies' - Victoria Revealed
Video installation at Kensington Palace.
Xenon
A collaboration with artist and musician Mikhail Karikis
Slow
A visual essay about slow manufacturing in Austria made in collaboration with design historian and anthopologist Alison Clarke
 
Bridge    
Tales from the Bridge
3D soundfield devised for the Millennium Bridge. Made in collaboration with Martyn Ware and featuring poetry by Mario Petrucci. July 27 - Sept 10