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Qualities of Life: Living in the Radiant Cold

Featuring Daily Photos and Observational Photos (both, 2000–2007) by Horst Ademeit (1937–2010), and an extract from Hemlock (2022) by Leslie Thornton. Special thanks to Fatima

Nazarbazi نظربازی

Nazarbazi [the play of glances] is a film about love and desire in Iranian cinema where depictions of intimacy and touch between women and men

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

The Hide

The Hide was shot over a three-year period (2019-2022), both in the remote mountainous region crossing Northern Portugal and Spain, and in Brussels. The work

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

Something and Nothing

A filmmaker travels to Japan to show a film and during the trip, a correspondence with a Scottish man about a murder and a chance

The Muse

The second part of No End to Enderby, The Muse, in which a young historian journeys to a parallel universe to investigate whether Shakespeare really wrote everything credited

It was a lover and his lass

“It was a lover and his lass” a single-channel, video collage by Stephen Sutcliffe takes its title and soundtrack from a song in Act 5,

Your Estatic Self

Your Ecstatic Self follows a conversation unfolding in a car with Sajid. As the journey progresses Sajid discusses his engagement with the philosophy and practice

Weed Killer

Inspired by artist-writer Catherine Lord’s memoir The Summer of Her Baldness (2004), a moving and irreverent account of the author’s experience of cancer. At the

The Prince of Homburg

Patrick Staff’s vibrant, colour-coded video uses text from Heinrich von Kleist’s 19th-century play of the same name to explore themes of persecution and punishment to

Two

Two uses a female erotic gaze to look for places where love might be found in contemporary life and to explore what might constitute supportive,

Lourdes

Lourdes is a new work developed from a residency in Tepito, Mexico, centring upon a discussion with a market trader called Lourdes. Interviewed about her

Breath of Sense

A film collaboration between Helen Petts and poet Albert Pellicer exploring sound, wind, landscape and whistling. Breath is Sense is a poem by Albert Pellicer,

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In a Kyoto bookstore, an employee receives a parcel of new books. She methodically leafs through them, scratching the surface of certain pages with a

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