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Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait

In the spirit of the late filmmaker and poet, Margaret Tait (1918-1999), Being in a Place is as much a portrait of Tait’s beloved Orkney,

MADOLI

The traditional celebration of Madoli – with rich mixture of pagan and early Christian symbolism – is held every summer in the mountains of Tusheti

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

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

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness (2021, 63:30) is my latest feature length series of collage films, is a compilation of 6 films created between 2015

FF Gaiden: Black Death

“FF Gaiden: Black Death continues Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s remarkable body of work exploring the psycho-pathologies of racism as postulated by Frantz Fanon. Enlisting

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

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

The House Was Quiet

An old school house on an island in Scotland. A poem by Wallace Stevens.

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

After Work

The process of making a playground is the starting point for a reflection on the relationship between work and free-time, highlighting the hidden labour of

Ijen / London

A short film made in preparation for a longer one called After London, where a young woman goes on a quest to find the mythical

Hercules: Rough Cut

Hercules: Rough Cut refers to the Roman version of the Greek Heracles, a series of stories rife with internal contradictions and gathered from multiple sources

i eye aye

A post-mortem archaeology of the creative path followed by a non-existent artist into the cosmological eternal present.(A tissue of truthful lies documented by the Archive

Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way

Three sisters move through public/political space – a square, bridge, garden and hill- in this exploration of Black diaspora. Taking as its starting point empty

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