Broadcast title sequence for prime time UK TV show “How Hip Hop Changed The World” presented by Idris Elba.
Commissioned by Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One Productions and broadcast on Channel4 in 2011.

STREET LIFE featuring Takura

Direction: Chris Allen & Tim Cowie | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: Tim Cowie

EASTERN  JAM

Direction: Jude Greenaway | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: Jude & Joe Greenaway

TAKE ME AWAY

Direction: Luis De Jorge & Tom Wall | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: BlinkinLAB

AGAINST ALL ODDS featuring Kano

Direction: Chris Allen & Toby Harris | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: *spark audio-visual

HEART BEAT featuring Nneka

Direction: Joe Greenaway | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: Jude & Joe Greenaway

HURT YOU

Direction: Chris Allen & Toby Harris | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: Chris Allen & Dave Baum

IN LOVE featuring Jenna G

Direction: Chris Allen & Toby Harris | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: Dave Baum

MUSIC CLUB

Direction: Luis De Jorge & Tom Wall | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: BlinkinLAB

PIECES featuring Plan B

Direction: Chris Allen | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: Tim Cowie | Additional visuals by Mircochunk

END CREDITS featuring Plan B

Direction: Chris Allen & Tim Cowie | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: Tim Cowie | Contains clips from the film “Harry Brown“

RUNNING featuring Takura

Direction: Luis De Jorge & Tom Wall | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: BlinkinLAB

SAXON

Direction: Chris Allen & Toby Harris | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: *spark audio-visual

SMASH TV

Direction: Chris Allen & Tim Cowie | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: Tim Cowie

IS IT WORTH IT

Direction: Chris Allen & Toby Harris | Graphic Design: Mitchy Bwoy | Post production: *spark audio-visual

Project produced by Christopher Thomas Allen
Project management by Toby Harris
Art Direction by Mitchy Bwoy

True Fictions is the result of a year long digital performance art project, produced and directed by Christopher Thomas Allen and commissioned by EMPAC, The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre in Troy, New York.

It is a live audio visual spectacle that fuses documentary film making, music, animation and motion graphics with cutting edge digital performance tools. A stunning collage of music and live cinema which explores the themes of truth and myth through a multitude of American and Native American voices; with a original musical score created through the collaborations of 25 New York based musicians and vocal artists.

The final performance was completed and presented in September 2007 at EMPAC and has gone on to tour other media & arts festivals internationally.

For more back ground information about how this project was devloped please visit: http://www.avfolklore.blogspot.com
For more video excerpts from the project please visit: http://vimeo.com/channels/truefictions

The following audio tracks and stills are taken from various international live performances:

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True Fictions is performed by:

Christopher Allen (audio & video)
Tim Cowie (audio & video) Malcom Litson (audio & analogue operations)
Jude Greenaway (audio)
Mark McRae (live guitars & keys)
Matt Waterfield (lighting & technical support)

Touring:

The Armour, EMPAC, Troy, New York, USA, September, 2007
The Great Hall, Urban Screens Festival, Manchester, UK, October, 2007
Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milano, Italy, November, 2007
ZEMOS98 Festival, Seville, Spain, March, 2008
IMAX Cinema, onedotzero festival, BFI Southbank, London, November, 2008
Brighton Pavilion, Loop Festival, Brighton, July, 2009
Waterfront, TRANS Festival, Captalist Arts, Belfast, July, 2009
Rotuda3, HITEC, Mirowave Festival, Hong-Kong, November, 2009
The Others, Hackney Film Festival, London, September 2010
Freeform Festival, Warsaw, Poland, October, 2010

Project Produced & Directed by Christopher Thomas Allen

Cinematography: Christopher Thomas Allen & Robert Pyecroft-Rainbow
Photography:Christopher Thomas Allen, Robert Pyecroft-Rainbow & Helen Omand
Edited: Christopher Thomas Allen, James Price & Tim Cowie
Animation: Martin Banks, Tim Cowie & Blinkinlab
Audio Interviews: Christopher Thomas Allen, Robert Pyecroft-Rainbow & Jo Williamson
Assistant Producer: Annie Kwan
NYC Production Co-ordination: Sarah Pace
Research & location Production: Helen Omand
Studio Sound Recording & Initial Arrangements: Ben Allen
Music Production & Arrangements: Tim Cowie
Addition Audio Production: Malcom Litson, Mark McRae & Jude Greenaway

Special thanks to:

The Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Salamanca
The Ronathahonni Cultural Center, Cornwall Island, Ontario
Nichols Meat Processing, Altamont, NY
David Lublin & Ray Cutler at VIDVOX
Kathleen Forde, Jason Steven Murphy and all the staff at EMPAC

An EMPAC Commission supported by The Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts NY

New York Musical Contributors:

The Light Surgeons were commissioned to create a four screen audio visual peice to celebrate the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall at the Overture weekend, Southbank, London on the 8th & 9th June 2007. The four films were projected across the south side of the Royal Festival hall on two nights as part of the re-opening festival.

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Director: Christopher Thomas Allen
Producer: Annie Kwan
Editor: Johnny Halifax
Artists: Brede Korsmo, Robert Pyecroft-Rainbow
Animation: blinkinLAB, Toby Harris & Tim Cowie
Audio Production: Jude Greenaway