Desire Archives

A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade)

Alfred Roch, member of the Palestinian National League, is a politician with a bohemian panache. In 1942, at the height of WWII, he throws what

The Umpire Whispers

‘The Umpire Whispers’ is an exploration of the intimacy that arises between a swimming coach and an athlete. In the film, Manna returns to meet her coach

Blessed Blessed Oblivion

BLESSED BLESSED OBLIVION weaves together a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, as manifested in gyms, body shops and hair dressing parlors. Inspired by

Wayfaring Stranger

Wayfaring Stranger charts the life of an itinerant character, embodied by seven performers, across seven days, representing seven decades. Running from the city, through post-industrial

MARIA

MARIA is Nina Danino’s 5th feature length film and a sister film to the recent SOLITUDE (2022) with Nico (Velvet Underground) as icon, screen and

Double Exposure

Double Exposure re-stages photographs of Pucill and her once partner, filmmaker Sandra Lahire that were made collaboratively shortly before Lahire’s death from anorexia in 2001.

It Might Even Be Kind Of A Relief To Be Finished Marilyn Monroe

A meditation of the heartbreaking performance of identity. Inspired by material shot during a visit to Mike Wade studio on the Jurassic coast as he

Teleny

‘Teleny’ is a partial adaptation of Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal, an anonymous pornographic novel published in 1893. Scenes of dialogue between the

Black Sea is really Black

Black Sea is really Black is a road movie of sorts, tracing Medoidze’s car journey from the Cave City of Vardzia in Eastern Georgia to

Jackals and Drones (Chronicles of A Summer)

The narrative follows a road movie schema, but only superficially: a Belgian actress arrives in Tbilisi airport to travel to the medieval cave city of

Xitana ხითანა

First film in Medoidze’s Tusheti Trilogy, Xitana is centred around a bareback horse race tradition in Tusheti mountains – a display of masculinity as much

MADOLI

The traditional celebration of Madoli – with rich mixture of pagan and early Christian symbolism – is held every summer in the mountains of Tusheti

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Directness. Bareness. Harshness. No fight left, no drama. A reduction, a kind of freedom. Words suggest a persons efforts to dissolve and minimise human contact,

Laughing Woman

A solitary person stands in the middle of an empty grassy green ground in brilliant sunshine, laughing directly to camera. Laughter, absurdity, ridicule and humour,

Two Billies

Featuring God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday and Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish 16mm Outtake from A Bunny Girl’s Tale 98 Billie EIlish

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