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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

Dear Barbara, Bette, Nina

Dear Barbara, Bette, Nina, (2021) was commissioned as part of a project by Punto de Vista Film Festival in which several filmmakers were asked by

For CA

A portrait of American poet CAConrad. Outtakes from the filming of I HOPE I’M LOUD WHEN I’M DEAD.

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.

Of Girls

Filmed in Tokyo and Yokohama, of girls brings a variety of contemporary voices in resonance with two distinct female voices from Japan’s literary and political

Ungentle

Ungentle is a film based on a script by Huw Lemmey and co–directed with Onyeka Igwe, exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male

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

White Adonis

White Adonis is a video which references James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, while using as its inspirational myth the scene of Adonis’ death. The video was

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

THE BUZZ OF THE PAST

This short film was commissioned by HOME in Manchester for the Derek Jarman season. It played as an introduction for his film THE GARDEN and

Undercurrent 528

Undercurrent 528 draws on Stephen Dwoskin’s complex relationship with care, desire and everyday rituals as made visible in his vast oeuvre and reorients it from

Becoming Plant

Becoming Plant (2022) follows six dancers who participate in a therapeutic group experiment with psychedelics, while temporarily ‘living’ together on the demilitarised industrial site. While

On a glowing led lightbox is a ceramic tray with erratic edges filled with blue liquid. A finger wearing a silver ring touches the power button on the lightbox

ZZZ

‘ZZZ’ is described by the artist as a ‘nocturnal work’. Within the video we hear a tired voice-over reading across her incomplete notes during the

Patrick

Luke Fowler’s work has long asked how we come to know someone in their absence. He has explored this question by creating posthumous portraits of

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

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