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Collective Hum

A short film exploring the polyphony of collectivity in the desires, motivations and stories that foreground the histories and present(s) of Black British sound. Collective

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

Bathing

Bathing explores themes of contamination, cleanliness, and debility through performance and dance. Between the performer’s movements, the video intersperses images of oil, spit, fluid landscapes,

The Foundation

The Foundation combines footage shot around the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles alongside choreographed sequences in a specially-constructed set. Together they form a

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

Depollute

In a rapid-fire 2 minutes, Depollute presents a set of instructions, commands, a poetic edict dictating a set of actions required to perform a self

On Venus

Staff’s On Venus is comprised of two parts. The first of scratched, warped, and overlapping footage documenting the industrial farming of hormonal, reproductive, and carnal

A Boi is…

A Boi is . . . offers a humorous take on the educational programs watched during childhood. Formed as part of a hypothetical series the

Hybrid Vigor

Hybrid Vigor brings together appropriated material from historical archives and contemporary society. Music replaces dialogue, lyrics in the songs address ideas present in the video.

An image of black women in white voluminous dresses with frills and colorful headpieces is projected onto a white wall and a glittery curtain drape.

She Was A Full Body Speaker

This video combines found footage from the artist’s personal archive and that of Liverpool based filmmaker Sandi Hughes (Rewind/Fast Forward). It explores cycles of trauma,

Bball Curriculum

BBall Curriculum is an investigation around the male body in relation to the artist’s own through scenes of homosocial bonding where men dance, play ball

The Gender Song

The Gender Song is a defiant call to end limiting gender categorisation spun over a dancehall riddim. It is one of four in a series

Letter from Tokyo

Letter from Tokyo is a documentary film focusing on the activities of grass roots activists, artist led organisations, and queers politics in light of the

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,

Themes: Queer