The Ugly Happiness

I've finally been given the all clear to post this, and very happy about it I am! We won the Royal Television Society award for best student animation last year for this one. Rightly so, the animation is beautiful. Enjoy!

The Ugly Happiness from Rory James [Corsair] on Vimeo.

Watching Millie

A recently completed LCC 2010 graduate film, directed by Tom Law. The sound and music are by Matt Appelhans and myself, respectively. Our version of the sound track wasn't used in the final edit, in favour of a more austere affair. C'est la vie.

Here's a sample from the soundtrack that wasn't used.

Watching Millie by CorsairUK

Blue Waters

This little gem has been M.I.A. for some time. I wrote this track in 2005(!) when I was sharing a house with my buddy Ventriloquist. He spent one hot summer night sitting out in our garden listening to this track on his mini-disk player over and over, and penned the lyrics in one sitting. The film was made a couple of years afterwards by Tom Collinson and deals with the nature of masculinity in a changing society.

S.A.V.E.

From a documentary I composed the music for in 2009 for the charity group WOMEN WITHOUT BORDERS. The documentary features 3 women: an ex-member of an Islamist organisation in the UK, a pioneer against violent extremism in Northern Ireland and a young woman affected by terrorism in Madrid. This Women without Borders SAVE / Sisters Against Violent Extremism feature was produced by Zia Trench.

"Aurora"

This is the sister piece to 'Transfer' (see earlier posts), performed on the 22nd March by 3rd yr Link Dance studenets at Islington's Urdang Academy.

From the show 'Projections'
3rd Year Link Dance group at The Urdang Acadamy. London UK
Choreographer: Mandy Braden.
Music: Orion By Corsair.