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obsada

The Polish word ‘obsada’ means ‘film cast’ but can also mean ‘working party’ – it connotes the distribution of work positions , but also: placing a plant

Solitude

“…then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.” 1818 John Keats Readings

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

You Can Never Touch the Same Water Twice

Filmmaker and artist Alberta Whittle traces Transatlantic ancestral trauma through her own voice, in song and spoken word and through her body.

Eye Cut

The film’s protagonist is a masked woman in a nude bodysuit, who wears a cardboard box that doubles as a theatre stage. The woman takes

business as usual: hostile environment

‘Business as usual’ is a set phrase used commonly in the business realm to manifest an ‘on going and unchanging state of affairs despite difficulties

Beyond The Substrata

Throughout 2019 artist Larry Achiampong developed new work in response to his residency with Waltham Forest Council. Working within an abandoned supermarket in Leyton, the

Bone

“The brutality of language and its severed connection with the self is given a violent bent in Bone — specifically in relation to how language

Jennifer

The film is portrait of Jennifer – a friend of the filmmaker’s who is an enclosed Carmelite nun in a monastery in Ronda, Spain, where

Valentina

‘Valentina’ is a prelude to ‘Wendy’, a speculative portrait of, and film fan-letter to, composer and musician Wendy Carlos – self-described as “The Original Synth”.

The Long Note

Exploring social histories through film, photography, print, text and performances, Helen Cammock creates multiple and layered narratives that are not linear, allowing the cyclical nature

Between the Bullet and the Hole

‘Between the Bullet and the Hole’ is a film centred on the elusive and complex effects of war on women’s role in ballistic research and

Oramics: Atlantis Anew

“We will be entering a strange world where composers will be mingling with capacitors, computers will be controlling crotchets and, maybe, memory, music and magnetism

Solo Damas

Solo Damas rests upon a woman’s fragmented journey back to an island inhabited with decomposing dolls, haunting effigies symbolizing rebirth and transcendence. It talks directly

36 to 77

In 1977 Marc Karlin, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan started work with Jon Sanders on a sequel to Nightcleaners that was to focus on the

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