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Writer in Residence

Writer in Residence take the form of a TV-style interview and continues Sutcliffes interest in collage as a means by which to shake certainty and

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point And Another

I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another (2012) might be understood as a study in gestures and as the second chapter, following from

The Empty Plan

Part documentary, part historical reconstruction and part melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht .

The Albatross

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by 19th century wood engravings and brought to life by scratching directly into the surface

“Interview” with Marguerite Duras

On the occasion of a solo exhibition at the Galerie Ivon Lambert in Paris, David Lamelas once again creates a work where the point of

Reading of an Extract from Labyrinths by J.L. Borges

The film Reading of an Extract from “Labyrinths” by J. L. Borges shows a young woman reading an essay by Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges

Tulips at Dawn

Diagrams of chemistry apparatus and educational film footage react and combine in this quirky interpretation of a poem by Nobel Laureate Chemist Roald Hoffmann. The

Kokoro is for Heart

Kokoro is for Heart features poet Gerry Shikatani and explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a gravel pit.

The Unlimited Dream Company

The British science fiction writer J.G. BALLARD talks about his life and work. Meanwhile a crashed pilot stalks the landscapes of his dreams. The film

We

We is about interpretation. It is about two distinct ways of reading the concept of force by juxtaposing seemingly different sets of imagery with text

William Burroughs: Commissioner Of Sewers

A topical and absorbing documentary about one of the most extraordinary and uncompromising figures of American culture. Maeck’s access to Burroughs is good and he

Winter Trees

Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Winter Trees’ is translated line by line into a personalised visual language. Computer aided collage juxtaposes live action with animation to create

Voices

Based on a poem by the German-Jewish post-war poet, Paul Celan, Voices seeks not to represent the content or images in the poem, but to

Bedlam

Bedlam involves an imaginary meeting between two literary characters, Bertha Mason from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway from Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea.

Empire of the Senseless

This tape is a profile of the writer Kathy Acker by video artist Atalia Shaw which includes an interview with the author and a reading

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