Movies: Michael Pattison

Freshly hatched bee Maya is a little whirlwind and won't follow the rules of the hive. One of these rules is not to trust the hornets that live beyond the meadow. When the Royal Jelly is stolen, the hornets are suspected and Maya is thought to be the...

A short documentary on the Tyneside music scene....

A man and a woman are attacked on a country road. The woman loses her sight, the man loses his hearing....

From Waltham Abbey to the River Thames, "Lea River Bridges" documents a single dérive through East London, taking the many overhead structures that span the River Lea as its structuring principle....

A short companion piece to "Play History" presenting five markers of territory on and around Tyneside....

Cycles of everyday urban living play out against a site of zombie capitalism....

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told from the perspective of a wandering narrator, who has arrived in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by accident, th...

A short companion piece to "Play History" recounting the struggles of the Keelmen of Tyne and Wear against forced naval recruitment....

Institutional bureaucracies affect a researcher's relationship; in turn, a break-up sends him towards a diagnostic assessment....

Based on the short story by Hans Christian Andersen....

The Path of Remembrance and Comradeship is a long walkway encircling Ljubljana, Slovenia, charting the length of a military perimeter that surrounded the city during its occupation in World War Two. Seventy large stones dot the path at intervals alon...

A short film by Michael Pattison....

A circular short film on violence, using long takes and dead time....

Two young males respond in different ways to the stillness of narrative, information, the visual frame....

An artist realises the very thing causing his creative block is the one thing he wishes to give expression to - a break-up....