HIDDEN
Hidden, written and directed by Lidia Bieniarz, is a 3rd year major project for a BA Film and TV Production Degree. Chloe is Hidden's official Director of Photography.
Set in 1940s, Hidden is a short form drama that explores World War II in the perspective of a young Jewish girl, Esther, who is being sheltered by her neighbour, Edmund, after her fathers abrupt disappearance. He keeps her safe and hidden from the cruel reality of WWII, by concealing the truth about the events that happened to her relatives. Years later, with a heavy heart, Esther tries to reveal the horrifying stories of those who were never able to share them.
SWIM
'Swim' is a short film, written and directed by Maddie Lynes, that focuses on an emotionally precarious relationship between siblings and how, in just over 24 hours together, they learn to be in each other’s company again.
This short film is the winning script of Cambridge Creatives x CUADC’s scriptwriting competition and we were incredibly lucky to have been working with a generous budget from CUADC and Trinity Filmmaking society. Chloe is 'Swim's' official Director of Photography and Camera Operator.
'Swim' was successfully shot over the course of July 2021 and premiered at St John's Old Divinity School in March 2022.
PERSEPHONE'S PERSONA
Written by and starring the otherworldly Gaia Mondadori, Persephone’s Persona is an original short-film following an actor’s struggle to embody the role of the mythic Persephone. Explored through the lens of the Jungian shadow-self, ego and persona. Surreal and folkloric tones are merged in a real-world setting, inviting a vivid blurring of imagination and reality, where the power-play of shadow and self is embodied in a battle between light and dark. Chloe was Persephone's Persona Director of Photography and editor.
Persephone's Persona premiered at the Preston Filmmaking Society in 2021 and featured at the Cambridge Shorts Film Festival in 2022.
FORGOTTEN IN SPACE
Forgotten in Space is a short non fiction film that Chloe directed, edited and shot in the heights of lockdown 2020. This film explores the official NASA Voyager recordings of our solar system’s orchestral cacophony.
"I lost myself to the sound of Neptune, fell asleep to the sound of Uranus, fallen victim to Saturn’s narcoleptic screams, mediated to the sound of Jupiter, celebrated survival with Mars, grounded by Gaia, recovered from rage hangovers with Venus and commuted with Mercury. Thrown into the unknown, I asked myself, how would it feel to explore space and be utterly forgotten about here on earth?"
Forgotten in Space headlined at the 2022 Queens Art Festival 'Lost But Not At Sea' and is now featured in Gallerie V's autumn exhibition 'Mythologies, Monochrome, and Chiaroscuro' that is exhibiting from October 8th until December 14th 2023.
SUBJECT/OBJECT
Subject/Object is an experimental 60 second film that personifies the theoretical dynamic between the ‘subjective’ and ‘other’ curated by Simone De Beauvoir in “The Second Sex”. Cinematography by Chloe Kelly.
FROM, KAEDEN
A short observational documentary made in the heights of lockdown follows the day to day to life of a six year old boy named Kaeden. He energetically immerses himself in every activity in hopes of learning something new and bewildering about the unknown world around him. Directed, shot and edited by Chloe Kelly.
CAMBRIDGE ARTS PICTUREHOUSE
A short documentary that explores the beauty of Cambridge Arts Picturehouse. Directed, shot and edited by Chloe Kelly.