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Diamond Mountain

Puppet and set prototypes for stop motion short / Script and visuals by Tenaya Steed / ONGOING

A girl’s childhood ritual of tracing dreams in her mum’s cigarette smoke carries her toward a faraway industrial estate on the motorway, Diamond Mountain, where the fantasy of escape begins to fracture.

Desert Town Landings

BBC Arts short film / Written, directed & edited by Tenaya Steed / Made with & starring local people / Broadcast on BBC4

Desert Town Landings is a short, magical realism film inspired by the collaborative book and sci-fi workshop series UFOs over Desert Towns. Starring entirely local ‘non-actors’ coming from a place of lived experience - many performing from the windows of their own homes during lockdown 01 - the everyday encounters and lo-fi UFO props tell a collective story of small-town boredom and the friendships you grow up with in forgotten towns.

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Lands of Oz

Wizard of OZ reenactment / Starring a cast of adults who played the same roles at their different primary schools during the 90s / Conceived of and directed by Tenaya Steed, who also designed and made the set and costumes / DOP Jake Kelsall / Production Assistant Tristan Hemsworth / Exhibited at INTO THE DARK, Dalston

The Birmingham County Finals

Off-duty Irish dancing medals for The Birmingham County Finals: an imagined souvenir series exploring former child-dancer days through sculpture and metalwork / funded by Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice grant / published in Left Cultures Magazine

Miss Cindy

Video poem about girlhood and small town boredom in Cinderford / Written and Directed by Tenaya Steed / Shot by Tenaya Steed and Luca Parasiliti / Starring Char Coulter / Narrated by Blaize Bradley / Music by Jack Needell / Exhibited at The Royal College of Art WIP Show

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