SHORT FILMS
Over nearly 30 years Philip Clemo has made around 20 short films, trying to scramble familiarity and capture what is normally beyond human perception. Ultimately he is aiming to create the opportunity for us to experience the spaces around us in much more immersive ways, as we might experience music.
He’s shot chemical reactions in petri dishes, motion-controlled extreme-close-up fly-overs over human bodies, exploding gasses in ultra-slow-motion and the extraordinary landscape of Iceland from a gyro-stabilised camera mounted under a helicopter.
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First Breath, produced by perfectmotion and edited by Adam Lavis, is a non-verbal trip from birth to death, illustrated through the diverse landscapes we inhabit, including our own bodies.
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First Breath, produced by perfectmotion and edited by Adam Lavis, is a non-verbal trip from birth to death, illustrated through the diverse landscapes we inhabit, including our own bodies.
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Official Selection at European Short Film Festival, 2021 and Semi-finalist at the Paris International Short Film Festival, 2022. You can purchase a limited edition copy @ seditionart.com/philip-clemo
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Official Selection at European Short Film Festival, 2021 and Semi-finalist at the Paris International Short Film Festival, 2022. You can purchase a limited edition copy @ seditionart.com/philip-clemo
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Lark is the third short film coming from the Dream Maps album. It explores confinement and escape as well as the dissolving of form. Thanks to Vision Research for its help in the making of this project.
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Lark is the third short film coming from the Dream Maps album. It explores confinement and escape as well as the dissolving of form. Thanks to Vision Research for its help in the making of this project.
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SHADOW SEAS, the second short film from Philip Clemo's Dream Maps album, illustrates a world of scrambled communication and the experience of being 'caught in the machine'. It delves into our shadow sides and explores the total disintegration of form and identity.
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SHADOW SEAS, the second short film from Philip Clemo's Dream Maps album, illustrates a world of scrambled communication and the experience of being 'caught in the machine'. It delves into our shadow sides and explores the total disintegration of form and identity.
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WATER IN THE FLOW is the first short film coming from PHILIP CLEMO'S 2016 album DREAM MAPS. The film was directed by Clemo and shot with his long-time collaborator Colin Gray. It features singer-songwriter Evi Vine who wrote the words and sang on the original piece.
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WATER IN THE FLOW is the first short film coming from PHILIP CLEMO'S 2016 album DREAM MAPS. The film was directed by Clemo and shot with his long-time collaborator Colin Gray. It features singer-songwriter Evi Vine who wrote the words and sang on the original piece.
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The first film in The Memory of Objects series, shot on location in the Château de Rochebonne, France. The original château was built in 1628 but razed to the ground in 1799 during the French Revolution. It was then split in two. It was occupied by the German army during World War II. This film explores the objects inside.
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A bee's eye view into the world of orchids. Orchids are considered to be the most highly evolved of flowering plants and when explored close up often appear to have almost human characteristics. Shot over three days in the greenhouses of Don Dennis' Living Tree Orchid Essences on the Isle of Gigha in the Scottish Hebrides, this is Philip Clemo's intimate interaction with these extraordinary plants.
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Entry for Virgin Media Shorts competition. Shot in Iceland and the UK, this short film explores this thought: if the estimated 4.5 billion years our planet has been in existence is equated to 24 hours, Homo sapiens have been around for 4 seconds.
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Some excerpts from Norway 2013 aurora shoot. Shot up in the Arctic Circle on an Arri Alexa movie camera.
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A series of film vignettes to pieces from the Mesmer album. These journeys explore unusual perspectives in natural and urban environments. 1) Nostalgia 2) Erasure 3) Escape 4) Seduction 5) Decay 6) New growth.
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As part of the Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Film Competition Enter the Earth - become trapped in the endless cycles of life and death, creation and destruction. Then look upwards and transcend - rising to the sun as everything turns to dust below. Then the cycle begins again.
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Shot in Iceland for Philip Clemo's film 'The Air Holds Still On My Breath' this material became the inspiration for his Breath project. These landscapes excerpts illustrate the ambition and potential of the Breath feature film which is currently in development.
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A short film made to the composition 'Surfing Dreams & Chaos', written by Ysanne Spevack and Philip Clemo. The project was shot using specialist high-speed and timelapse camera technology on the ground, and from the air using an ultra-smooth gyro-stabilised camera mounted on a helicopter.The film is structured around the changing states of water: from ice, through liquid, to vapour, on a glacial journey to the sea.