Themes: Literature

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

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Cymbeline

By curtailing a manager’s pompous introduction to a new romantic groups early performance and adding imagery rendered through the almost redundant technology of an e-reader,

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Moveable Bridge

Moveable Bridge, 2017, made on a residency in Hull, draws together Nina Simone, Philip Larkin, Winifred Holtby and the Housemartins. Partly, Cammock reveals the way

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They Call It Idlewild

Inspired by the forgotten histories, photographs and artworks uncovered in Wysing Arts Centre’s archive, Cammock’s new film acts as a reflection on the politics of

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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

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A woman with a long curly hair facing a life-sized portrait of a woman. Their clothes are almost identical.

Claudette’s Star

Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, the film depicts young artists considering with sheer wonder who is given a voice.

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An Experiment in Leisure

Excerpts of texts by psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1998) on concentration, the body, repetition, daydreaming and open-ended time as conditions for creation are read and reflected

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Ionesco in Hollywood

Duane’s interview of Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco unfolds in a small Hollywood theatre where issues of heroes and failures, patriarchy and puppets, and time passing

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Outwork

Named after an essay by Jacques Derrida which questions the necessity of literary prefaces, Outwork is Stephen Sutcliffe’s filmic collage inspired by Erving Goffman’s book

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The Tiger’s Mind

The Tiger’s Mind is an abstract crime thriller set against the backdrop of a brutalist villa. Six characters, the set, the music, the foley, the

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