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Working with Susheela Raman, Sam Mills, Ghost Gamelan and Andrew Catlin to make many films to accompany their album release and live performances. Emily Carding played Hamlet in 2018, Directed by Patrick Kealey. The film Gifts, originated from eight objects that were traditionally given in England, to welcome a new child into the world: Egg, Coal, Evergreen, Salt, Candle, Bread, Coin and Silver. Each symbolic gift has been the theme of a public event, created by Artist Clare Whistler, in collaboration with leading artists, musicians, poets and documented from 2005-2015 by established filmmakers. Gifts is an interpretation of the eight events, directed by Nichola Bruce.The film brings together English traditions of ritual and landscape. Financed by Gift Economy movement and Arts Council England. Editor, Co-Camera. A pilot awaiting funding in conjunction with The Playhouse Theatre, Derry/Londonderry and Hallucinating Angels. Promo for Yumino Seki, Butoh Performace Artist. Steve Pyke’s on portraits he took that stick in the mind. Beautiful music by Marcus Cummings. Camera, Sound, Edit. Finished making a film on the coastal stories of Kent’s involvement in ww1, made with Nichola Bruce. www.kentww1.com A Portrait of my son and my mum. Filmed for the Coastal Currents Festival in Hastings on one roll of Super8 film.
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Director/Editor/Cinematographer
Sam Sharples started directing his own work in 2005. The short films ‘Passenger’ and ‘Night Train’, were followed by ‘Nan and John’ which was shown at Imax, New York and the National Portrait Gallery, London. He has since gone on to continue his personal work, and also to collaborate with artists and filmmakers as Editor, Cinematographer and Director. Recent projects have included the three feature films; ‘The Romance of Bricks’ a documentary portrait of the Artist Liz Finch Directed by Nichola Bruce, ‘Identity’ a portrait of the singer Poly Styrene from the band X-Ray Specs Directed by Richard Heslop and ‘Gifts’ with performance artist Claire Whistler. He works closely with the director Nichola Bruce on installations and films and is currently in post-production on the feature documentary portrait of the painter Jacqueline Stanley, ‘Long Ago and Far Away’.