Michael Pattison Movies

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...

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

A short documentary on the Tyneside music scene.

Based on the short story by Hans Christian Andersen.

"Play History" concerns the historical development of a particular landscape and the social, political and economic implications that inform it. Told...

The Path of Remembrance and Comradeship is a long walkway encircling Ljubljana, Slovenia, charting the length of a military perimeter that surrounded...

A short film by Michael Pattison.

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

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

From Waltham Abbey to the River Thames, "Lea River Bridges" documents a single dérive through East London, taking the many overhead structures...

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

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

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

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.