Found Footage Archives

A Magical Substance Flows Into Me

‘A Magical Substance Flows Into Me’ opens with a crackly voice recording of Dr. Robert Lachmann, an enigmatic Jewish-German ethnomusicologist who emigrated to 1930s Palestine.

Man number 4

Gaza, December 2023. A confrontation with a disturbing photograph on social media triggers questions about what it means to be an onlooker.

i 2 aye

The prequel-equal-sequel to the award-winnning, highly acclaimed feature filuminium “i eye aye” (UK 2021, 99 minutes) Overcoming LIFE and DEATH, Das Institut für den reinen

Golden Jubilee

What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? “Golden Jubilee”, the third film in a series of works

Letter From Your Far-Off Country

Shot with 16mm film stock that expired in 2002—the same year as the state-sponsored anti-Muslim genocide in Gujarat—and filmed amid the anti-CAA protests in Delhi,

At Home But Not at Home

In 1961, 14 years after India gained independence from Britain, the Indian Armed Forces defeated the last remaining Portuguese colonizers in the newly formed state

Syncopated Green

Syncopated Green calls on the history of outdoor free parties to re-describe the English Countryside. The film listens to rave music, past and present, to

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.

Home Invasion

A nightmarish essay film on the history of the doorbell, tracing its invention and constant reinventions through 19th century labour struggles, the nascent years of

Asbestos

Mined, extracted, and woven, asbestos was the magic mineral. Towns became cities under its patronage, Persian kings entertained guests with its fireproof nature, and centuries of industry

Pedigree

The final resting place of the Romanov family – the last Russian royal family who were executed in the 1917 revolutions, has always been contentious.

The Phantom Menace

Welcome to the age of cosmic radiation! In 2021 the Sun fell to its lowest point of activity since the birth of science. Its magnetic

Shouting at the Ground

In a peat bog in North West England a Spanish woman was murdered, her body buried and subsumed into the treacherously dense ecological matter. A

Colossal Cave

“Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave. Magic is said to work in the cave. I will be your eyes and hands.” Excavated from the world’s largest

Sitting in Darkness

Out of the darkness a sound emerges. It echoes and drones. Terrified people take to the streets in search of its source. They get their

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