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Valeria Street

Initiated by an unearthed photograph of her father and his colleagues around a conference table in a generic mid-century office, Valeria Street charts a personal-political

Look and Learn

Look and Learn excavates the visual vocabulary we use to operate and construct the daily world. Look and Learn explores the juxtaposition of two material

Thug Odyssey

Thug Odyssey is a fan-inspired animated sequel to the Hollywood film Gridlock’d (1997), which starred Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth and Thandie Newton. In the movie,

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,

City of Dreadful Something

City of Dreadful Something, draws upon Herbert Read’s archive as a jumping off point, combining a poem by the late Martin Bell, cover visuals from

THE VERY VERY END

‘THE VERY VERY END’ is an artist’s video work about a holiday resort where tourists and holiday makers are waiting for a nuclear radiation cloud

Circumstantial Pleasures

Klahr, whom critic J. Hoberman called “the reigning proponent of cut and paste” for his acclaimed collage animations, is best known for his seductive and

PHX [X is for Xylonite]

In ‘PHX [X is for Xylonite]’, the first semi-synthetic plastics are considered through their relationship to the chemical and industrial development of photography and film.

Reverse Shadow

Rivers run red, planes hover over waters, ships travel in darkness, and towers loom and topple. Disaster seems imminent as the hunters prepare to shoot.

A Nightmare on BAME Street

A Nightmare on BAME Street shows an urban tableau-vivant set in a skewed version of an area of Birmingham, where Pandhal grew up. In an

The Rebirth of Sacred Cow Mixtape Trailer

The Rebirth of Sacred Cow Mixtape Trailer mimics a rap music video with a new song teaser at the end to boot, featuring guest vocals

The Turbulent Turban: A Turbine Hell

Pandhal considers the taboo against Indian wives to name their husbands directly, taking his subjective experience of a patriarchal naming practice in his familial surroundings

Paranoid Picnic: The Phantom BAME

Paranoid Picnic juxtaposes video footage of Pandhal’s studio with digital animation. Pandhal’s accompanying vocals explore the idea of ‘dissonant heritage’, a term used in heritage

Happy Thuggish Paki

Layered with trickster-daemonic cues, Happy Thuggish Paki is an audiovisual collage exploring practices of associative thinking and elliptical wordplay akin to rap production. It takes

In and Out of Synch

‘In and Out of Synch’ centres around the optical printing of soundtracks, committing to 16mm film a technology on the verge of extinction, entombing and

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