Richard Heslop

The Raft of the Medusa

Jeremy Mortimer, Richard Heslop

Amaka Okafor, Catherine Cusack

After months of continuous rain, all coastal areas of the UK are flooded. Bella and Jude are marooned on their flooded farm, cut off from any contact with the world outside.

Frank

Richard Heslop

Darren Beaumont, Con O'Neill

Caught up in a world he doesn't fit into, FRANK tells the unique story of an lonely outsider who manages to find friends in the strangest of places.

Floating

Richard Heslop

A Docklands bus driver on the verge of a nervous breakdown, destroys his house to build an ark in his living room.

Ostia

Julian Cole

Derek Jarman, David Dipnall

Ostia is a fascinating short film directed by Julian Cole and produced for the Royal College of Art, which reconstructs the events leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini. Ostia relocates the proceedings to London and stars Derek Jarman as Pasolini. The film features an evocative dream sequence which is accompanied by poignant excerpts from Pasolini’s own poetry, as read by Jarman.

A Nosegay

Maggie Jailler

Francois Testory, Richard Heslop

A homoerotic homage to Jean Genet and Comte de Lautréamont, featuring Francois Testory Richard Heslop and Celestino Coronado. The visual motif of the nosegay is used to tell the story of the love of an angel for a hermaphrodite. Made at the Royal College of Art.

Shooting the Hunter

Richard Heslop, Richard Heslop

Amina Bastante Pain

A tribute to Derek Jarman.

Fuck You G.I.

Richard Heslop

A music video made while I was at St. Martins College of Art, compiled from 8mm film I'd shot and found footage. The recent version has a clean soundtrack but the picture came off a very old U-matic tape that was warped, hence it has a strange stutter and freeze effect on it which wasn't in the original edit but--as part of the look of the piece was to do with decay and things falling apart--it kind of fits. I made this video after I had made 7 Songs for 23 Skidoo as I was doing a live multi-screen film show for the band during their live performances and this was an extension of that process, again at St. Martins College of Art and the London College of Printing.

Language

Richard Heslop

Scratch video piece by Richard Heslop for the band 23 Skidoo.