Tim Grabham

An award-winning feature-length creative documentary exploring the extraordinary world of the plasmodial slime mould through the eyes of the fringe scientists, mycologists and artists. In recent years this curious organism has become the focus of much research in such areas as biological-inspired design, emergence theory, unconventional computing and robot engineering.

‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating the material reveals the colour music within and traces of ambiguous narratives that emerge from the complex loops.

An unusual documentary exploring sound. Unique elements of Japanese culture are revealed through ancient rituals and extraordinary musical spectacles. A young Buddhist priest whose family has been serving a temple for the past 500 years is also a DJ and beat-boxer. A drum teacher takes part in a costume performance of a 700-year-old ghost story. A female performer plays the Sho, a rare bamboo instrument that is believed to imitate the call of the mythical phoenix. The core ideas explaining the magical potential of sound that permeates all parts of the film are presented in the tradition of Shingon Buddhism. These beliefs are explored through following Buddhist chanting lessons for student priests at Shuchiin University in Kyoto.

Dedicated to Japan's rackgaki (graffiti) scene, this DVD brings to life the imagery of the book and includes footage of graffiti being created. Set to a soundtrack by some of Japan's leading Trip-Hop artists, the viewer is fully immersed in the subculture that is Japanese graffiti.

Short movie by Tim Grabham

A portrait of the planned community of Surprise, Arizona.

This short film utilises macro photography and sound design to transform the ordinary (some milk dropping in a glass of oil) into something unearthly.

Three iterations of an imaginary medical promo film as it is reconfigured via the internet.

A frantic projectionist spools up the projector while scratching, slashing and bleaching his film before setting in motion the manic cut and paste montage he has frankensteined together. All the super 8mm, 35mm and 16mm films are excavated deep from the iloobia archive.

In the wake of analogue film’s great vanishing from the commercial film industry, a celluloid ghost materialises inside the ruins of a mysterious phantom cinema, beginning a phantasmagoric drift through death, rebirth, and the bardo like spaces in between.

A hand drawn, synesthetic inspired animation for the track "White and Fluffy" by Floating Circles Quartet.

Short movie featured as an extra on Arrow's release of The Creeping Garden