RARE BIRD STUDIOS

Excited to see Hyperscape finally announced at Connect '24, congrats to all the team, it took a lot of hard work to get there!

Edinburgh Film Festival listing here

StoryTrails is a journey through time and space that uncovers the hidden histories of our towns and neighbourhoods using immersive technology. GALWAD: A STORY FROM OUR FUTURE, is a human story of contemporary Wales that offers a glimpse into the future and asks what would happen if the future tried to contact us. The story will unfold in real-time on digital and broadcast platforms from 26 September to 2 October 2022.  Both are commissions of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, a programme of ten major multi-site and digital creative projects that share new ideas and possibilities for the future. 

If you are interested in exploring new ways of filmic communication, join us for an afternoon of discovery with pioneering creatives to explore how innovative use of creative technology can put communities at the heart of storytelling, giving audiences a sense of their place in the world and role in its future. 

Guests include:  

Alex McDowell –  Production Designer responsible for Fight Club (1999), Minority Report (2002), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and many more. Co-founder and Principal Creative Director, Experimental Design. Professor of Practice, USC School of Cinema. Director, USC World Building Media Lab and World Building Institute) 

Miguela Gonzalez – Head of Radical Inclusion, GLAWAD  

Will Saunders – Creative Lead, Story Trails 

Kim-Leigh Pontin – Creative Director, Nexus Studios. 

So excited to have been given the go-ahead by the wonderful BFI to develop The Book of Creatures.

Imagine a machine that creates vivid illusions, kaleidoscopic patterns and explosions of colour in your mind, as you experience it with your eyes closed. Commissioned by UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, Dreamachine is designed to explore the limitless potential of the human mind. Join Director Jennifer Crook, neuroscientist and bestselling author Anil Seth, Anthony Engi Meacock of the Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble and Kim Leigh Pontin, Creative Director of Nexus Studios, as they share the inspiration behind Dreamachine, how it works and how it’s helping to explore the wonder of how we perceive and create the world around us.

My plan to level up Britain – with the 3D internet and a Blackpool ‘queercoaster’

Article in The Guardian by David Olusoga 16 March 2022

Humbled and inspired as Creative Director on this project, with my amazing team at Nexus enabling and training 15 new voices to tell stories that matter. Come and join us!

As Creative Director at Nexus Studios, I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to direct this AR piece in support of the release of Eternals AR.

#CorpTopia on BBC Click – "Movie Monsters and Mental Health"

Here's #CorpTopia on the full episode of #BBCClick! - "Movie Monsters and Mental Health". Thanks to #CreativeXR  #StoryFutures for funding this experimental work during the London Lockdown period.  

If episode is no longer live, view here – around 15:00

Proud to have launched Britannia VR: Out of Your Mind.

An experience based on Sky Atlantic’s 2nd series of Britannia. You’ll become part of a lost Celtic tribe held up on a beach two years after the Roman invasion. You can choose to be immersed in a world of Druid magic and mysticism, or enter an intoxicating world of Roman imperialism and power.

Check it out for FREE on Steam VR.