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Seventeen and Lucy for the last five years have channeled their shared social and philosophical beliefs into a number of low-budget and highly ambitious ‘film poems’. They filmed their untitled debut work together in 2016, and since then have collaborated on several shorts including Looking for Albion (2018), Seventeen's Goldsmiths degree show work which received first-class honours. They are currently working on the post-production of Alien Intimacy, an ambitious feature which they produced with €11,000, assembling and coordinating a large crew in Belgrade, Serbia. The film was shot in Novi Bioskop Zvezda, an old cinema that Seventeen and Lucy help run. They enjoy helping cultivate the stories of people on the fringes of society and finding new ways of telling them. In all their projects they have sought to push themselves and the potential of the work.

Seventeen is an artist and filmmaker working between London, Belgrade, and Athens. Seventeen is interested in the mercurial space where reality and fiction meet. They are from a multidisciplinary, conceptual fine art background, and have exhibited internationally, though have moved deeper into cinema. They are a member of the performance collective Young Boy Dancing Group with whom they produce and direct films. Seventeen works as a director and DOP for Foreign Body Productions and has worked as a mentor for The Albany Theatre’s community outreach program Open Source Collaborations, supervising amateur scripts and coaching the production of short films. They have directed various music videos, ads and short films, and have written and directed THERE (2020), One Night on Saturn (2019) and Looking for Albion (2018).

Lucy is a writer and researcher in the department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Selected essays include ‘The Texture of Silence’ (2021); ‘The Anti-Nomadic Technique’ (2021); ‘The Sublimation of the City’ (2020); ‘Human Remains: Abjection as Protest, as Art’ (2021); ‘Of Burial and Other Worlds’ (2020). He is a published poet, having had his work included Mass magazine, fieldnotes, Slub Press and Ново Доба. He teaches a screenwriting course with the community outreach program Creative Sparkworks. Alongside his writing work, Lucy acts and has starred in many of R Seventeen's films, as well playing Puck in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (2004). Lucy is interested in aesthetic and political philosophy.