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Jennifer Martin

Jennifer Lauren Martin is a London-based writer/director and artist-filmmaker. Lauren Martin's interdisciplinary practice spans fine art, film, and writing, focusing on interpersonal belonging. Their characters frequently undergo a journey in which psychological tension and drama manifest as physical effects. Bodies, in their breakdowns, surface what has been felt and suppressed. In this way, the …

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A young woman is surprised to see her chronically ill sister has a new life.

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MovieDramaThriller

An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application. They endure a series of assessments that become progressively performative to attest to the legitimacy and acceptability of their relationship.

A River Holds a Perfect Memory

A River Holds a Perfect Memory · 2025

A River Holds a Perfect Memory

MovieDocumentary

Bodies of water are intervened upon, moved, disrupted and exploited. Labouring bodies experience similar pressures from the same forces of power and extraction. Distant communities – Northern England and Jamaica – share similar histories of manipulation and oppression whose record is kept in the living memory of its waterways. But water, like people, can find a way to exert its own will.

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A young woman is surprised to see her chronically ill sister has a new life.

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TEETH

MovieDramaThriller

An eager couple, Charlotte and Myles, are interrogated by two Home Office agents about their spousal visa application. They endure a series of assessments that become progressively performative to attest to the legitimacy and acceptability of their relationship.

Writer

A River Holds a Perfect Memory

A River Holds a Perfect Memory · 2025

A River Holds a Perfect Memory

MovieDocumentary

Bodies of water are intervened upon, moved, disrupted and exploited. Labouring bodies experience similar pressures from the same forces of power and extraction. Distant communities – Northern England and Jamaica – share similar histories of manipulation and oppression whose record is kept in the living memory of its waterways. But water, like people, can find a way to exert its own will.

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