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Hella Trees

Follows a young obsessive, Rafiki whose artistic practice focuses on trees, their individuality and presence.

A woman with a long curly hair facing a life-sized portrait of a woman. Their clothes are almost identical.

Claudette’s Star

Acting as part ode and through a series of interpretations, the film depicts young artists considering with sheer wonder who is given a voice.

Dear Babylon

The future of social housing is threatened by the AC30 Housing Bill. Set in London’s East End, a trio of art students are eager to

Tower XYZ

Accompanied by a lilting soundtrack, characters wander through London’s concrete jungle as the narrator reflects on the current state of the city and her imagined

Solidarity

Blacklisting in the UK construction industry impacted thousands of workers who were labelled ‘troublemakers’ for speaking out and secretively denied employment. Activists uncovered alarming links

Anne, Richard and Paul

Pitched between documentary and abstraction Anne, Richard and Paul is a portrait of the experimental music and performance trio Bow Gamelan Ensemble. Comprising archival footage,

Another Decade

Another Decade combines archive footage from the 1990s with newly shot 16mm film and standard definition video. Starting from testimonies and statements made by artists

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

Movement in a minor familiar (Schubert tape)

Cutting the footage carefully and often quickly around the filmed images of a home, ‘Movement in a minor Familiar (Schubert Tape)’, takes an intuitive stance

Ute on the Marshes

German voice artist Ute Wassermann discovers the strange acoustic under Walthamstowe Marshes railway bridge. Made for The Voice and the Lens at the Icon Gallery

Who Needs a Heart

Who Needs A Heart is a parable of political becoming and subjective transformation and remains BAFC’s most controversial film. Akin to a sophisticated home-movie history,

Polly II: Plan for a Revolution in Docklands

Set in the not-so-distant future Polly II – part satirical sci-fi, part soap opera and part Brechtian ‘Lehrstueck’ – portrays the lives of pirates and outcasts fighting

Block

Block looks at the incidental activity that takes places inside and outside a tower block in South London over the period of several months.

Nocturne

Nocturne is a 5 minute film shot entirely at night in deserted streets of the city. The film attempts to find images of London at

MM

Like an alien spacecraft landed on a poisoned wasteland, the Millenium Dome makes a fitting tribute to the works of New Labour. Taking the dome

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