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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.

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

8 Topaketa (8 Encounters)

8 TOPAKETA is an ephemeral school and a collaborative 16 mm film project made in the mountains of the Basque Country based on a series

Upon a time

A playful dissection of the traditional western storytelling form. Grimm Brothers hip hop.

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

Last Things

What happens to us / Is irrelevant to the world’s geology / But what happens to the world’s geology / is not irrelevant to us.

Pure Means

Pure Means is two screen video work by P. Staff, shot in a California desert wilderness during the summer of 2021. Through scenes of volatility,

Limbo

The journal and readings come together in ‘Limbo’ between a film and a journal. The film shows the outward journey as a positive image, with

Trailer 1

From the series of on minute videos: ‘Trailers for Unmade films’, 2005 – present.

Learning to speak to my daughter (mother’s dictionary)

How to speak to your bilingual daughter when your English is not good? Artist records the phrases she overheard other mothers say to their children

Andropov’s Ears

A modernist monument in Tbilisi nicknamed Andropov’s Ears (after the then-head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov) has recently been demolished by the neoliberal Georgian government to be replaced by

Questions and Answers

The Black Sea occupies a special place both of trauma and of pleasure in Medoidze’s video Questions and Answers. Combining the shots of Black sea

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

Let us flow ვიდინოთ

For me the Tush people stand out for their dedication to their traditional way of life which is influenced by extreme weather conditions 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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