Performance 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.

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

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

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

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

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,

Roadworks

This video documents a performance that Hatoum made in Brixton, South London in 1985, where she walked barefoot through the streets, dragging a pair of

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

History of the Present

An experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict, ‘History of the Present’ has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions

Mindwandering in a Van

A van travels around London. Participants are asked to listen to music and then recall what they were thinking about. Mindwandering is an exstablished field

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

OUT OF MY BOX: 27 VIDEOS FROM LOCKDOWN

OUT OF MY BOX: 27 VIDEOS FROM LOCKDOWN is a curated review of short works by artist filmmaker Matt Hulse created during Lockdowns. Full of

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