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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.

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

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

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

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

I Die of Sadness Crying for You

“So what moves us when we hear copla? Are we weeping for them? Can we hear the residue of suffering in their performance, in the

Cladach

The Wester Ross region of North West Scotland provides grounds to film and explore indigenous habitats and species, as well as human interactions with the

What Weakens The Flesh Is The Flesh Itself

Chicago-based Steve Reinke and Berlin-based James Richards may be artists separated by twenty years of age and the Atlantic Ocean, but they share a fascination

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

The View from Nowhere

The View from Nowhere is a single-channel moving image work which explores man’s place in nature through the science and technology of CERN, the particle

Imbizo Ka Mafavuke (Mafavuke’s Tribunal)

Imbizo Ka Mafavuke (Mafavuke’s Tribunal) is an experimental documentary set at the edge of a nature reserve in Johannesburg. A kind of Brechtian Lehrstück, the film

interregnum

In 2008 de-regulated globalised finance capital brought the world to the brink of disaster. Its ideology of market fundamentalism and unconstrained corruption proved to be

When you fall into a Trance

When you fall into a Trance is part of a series of Wardill’s films that share a common interest in the complexities of communication and

War Memorial

War Memorial is one part of an ongoing project based around 60 films which remain from World War Two of soldiers sending filmed messages home

Letters to Max

Paris, June 29 th 2012 Dear Max, Are you there? Éric Abkhazia is something of a paradox: a country that exists, in the physical sense

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