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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.

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

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

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

Ninna Nanna

Margaret Salmon’s three films collectively titled Ninna Nanna, depict the experience of three Italian mothers raising their children, with the films linked by a traditional

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

…These Blazeing Starrs!

Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. A short film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic

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.

The Lay Shaft Drive is Down

The Lay Shaft Drive is Down is a new film work by artist Helen Cammock, documenting a spoken and sung word performance imagined on the

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

N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild)

N’Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) in many ways stands in the tradition of Fowler’s impressionist portraits of persons who have made an impact on his personal

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

Wendy

‘You will witness the day become near-night, like the deepest twilight. Sunset colors bathe the full horizon, while a gaping black hole gazes down at

Ain’t Got No Fear

‘Ain’t Got No Fear’ is a film which Mikhail Karikis created with a group of 11 to 13-year-old boys who are growing up in the

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