Themes: Capitalism

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.

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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

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Crowtrap

CROWTRAP is a documentary fiction work by Callum Hill. Weaving together the lives of two men, this short film draws upon their individual dealings with

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INFINITY Minus Infinity

INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the Martinican philosopher and poet

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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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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

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South

Taking two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, ‘South’ presents an expressionistic investigation of

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Laki Haze

Laki Haze (2020) Following the eruption of the Lakakigar volcano, Iceland in 1783, a sulphurous haze shrouded vaste swathes of the northern hemisphere, causing widespread

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Cloudberries

‘Cloudberries’ was shot in Arctic Russia, on the Kola Penisula along the so-called Northern Sea Route during the hottest summer on record. It was filmed

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Looking For Gary

Set on Essex Road among an established local community in Islington London, this film looks at the complex relationship between people and place. Growing up

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Lourdes

Lourdes is a new work developed from a residency in Tepito, Mexico, centring upon a discussion with a market trader called Lourdes. Interviewed about her

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