Joel Foster Finn
Directing
Biography
Joel Foster Finn is a young filmmaker from Birmingham, UK. He has created a wealth of short films - specializing in directing and editing. His work has been shown at a range of festivals across the UK, including garnering two nominations for best short film at Birmingham Film Festival in 2022 and screening at IKON gallery in 2021. In 2023 he released his debut feature film 'Matter of the Heart', which was featured by Birmingham City University. He also directed short film 'Ben & Ed', funded by PRIDE Grants and Film Birmingham, released in 2025.
Known For
Experimental film inspired by Silver Soul, Beach House, utilising fractals and generative imaging processes to obscure the human body.
Silver Soul
Two former lovers are reunited by a sudden twist of fate after 25 years apart.
Ben & Ed
After committing her first murder, Sophia struggles to dispose of the evidence.
Tea First, Murder Later
After a distracted day at work, Suzy is pursued and controlled by an ominous periscope.
The Field of View
It's a place for overgrown children, where frowns burgeon in soil that used to smile.
Green Unpleasant Land
A dynamic exploration of the unseen inner workings of a computer graphics card realises the digital process as bodily, transient and rhythmic. Accompanying film to 'Arpeggiator Clouds' by jim.flac.
Arpeggiator Clouds
Looking up at a recessed spotlight from his hospital bed, a man muses about life, death, time and space.
Light-Heart
Matter of the Heart explores the lived experiences of an unseen narrator, as he prepares for, undergoes and recovers from open-heart surgery.
Matter of the Heart
A man almost misses his departure.
Departure
Footage of a street fight is reconstituted as a charged sexual encounter.
Hit On
When Henry Grant, an impeccably polite member of society accidentally meets the worst criminal in town, his inability to say no could lead to a life of crime.
If You Say So
A psychopathic killer plans his next attack.
A Clean Kill
A study of the Stourbridge ring-road in freezing conditions.
Minus
A stop motion loop of a spinning eye.
Panopticon
When Dave's epic space adventure doesn't go to plan, he runs to the only person in the Universe who can save the day...his Mom.
Down To Earth
The first part of the 'Matter of the Heart' trilogy. Set to a personal recount of events, a series of vignettes reveal the paradoxically mundane build up to open heart surgery.
His Great Arteries
The final part of the 'Matter of the Heart' trilogy traces the recovery process following heart surgery, as environment and object become increasingly interconnected with the body.
Green
A lone conductor finds music in the mundane.
Symphony of The City
A meditative ethnographic essay on the nature of ecological succession.
Square Roots
You're walking down a lane trying to outpace your problems, or escape your mind, but your brain isn't going anywhere without you.