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Black Sea is really Black

Black Sea is really Black is a road movie of sorts, tracing Medoidze’s car journey from the Cave City of Vardzia in Eastern Georgia to

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

Xitana ხითანა

First film in Medoidze’s Tusheti Trilogy, Xitana is centred around a bareback horse race tradition in Tusheti mountains – a display of masculinity 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

Untitled

Directness. Bareness. Harshness. No fight left, no drama. A reduction, a kind of freedom. Words suggest a persons efforts to dissolve and minimise human contact,

Laughing Woman

A solitary person stands in the middle of an empty grassy green ground in brilliant sunshine, laughing directly to camera. Laughter, absurdity, ridicule and humour,

Two Billies

Featuring God Bless the Child by Billie Holiday and Bury a Friend by Billie Eilish 16mm Outtake from A Bunny Girl’s Tale 98 Billie EIlish

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,

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