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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

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

Eye Cut

The film’s protagonist is a masked woman in a nude bodysuit, who wears a cardboard box that doubles as a theatre stage. The woman takes

Art Class

Art Class is a filmed performance lecture playing on, and exploring, the perennial tension between the two key words in its title. It uses the

Relic 1

‘Relic 1’ forms part of Larry Achiampong’s Relic Traveller: Phase 1, a multi-disciplinary project manifesting in performance, audio, moving image and prose. Taking place across

What Weakens The Flesh Is The Flesh Itself

Chicago-based Steve Reinke and Berlin-based James Richards may be artists separated by twenty years of age and the Atlantic Ocean, but they share a fascination

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Los Angeles Plays Itself is a video essay by Thom Anderson about how movies have portrayed the city of Los Angeles. Carefully weaving together footage

Terror!

“This masterfully edited compilation documentary analyzes the morphology of the horror film. Stringing together the most common tropes and scenes of slashers, zombie flicks, slumber

G.U.N.

A man and a woman stalk each other through a house in a highly staged sequence, in which the air of suspense and use of

Feature

Feature relocates the action of a traditional Western film to the English countryside and uses a hands-on approach to explore the slippage between live performance

Trail of the Spider

The film is an unsettling trans-historical vision of the Wild West that collides with the suppressed history of the multi-racial American West and the conflicts

Polly II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands

Set in the not-so-distant future Polly II – part satirical sci-fi, part soap opera and part Brechtian ‘Lehrstueck’ – portrays the lives of pirates and outcasts fighting

TAXI DRIVER II

In every town, in every city there’s a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.In London, there’s an ad man, there’s Johnny Morris, there’s the

Mayhem – Is This What You Were Born For? Part 6

‘A homage to Film Noir, soap opera thrillers and Mexican comic books generating the action. Perversely and equally inspired by Sade’s Justine and Vertov’s sentences

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