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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

Half light (the faking of the past)

The film is a compilation of short stories part fiction part fact based on the author’s life experiences and previous interactions in mental health institutions

Queen

In Queen, bodily labour, performance, leisure and domestic work are drawn into comparison via an irreverent musical memoir.

Walked the Way Home

In the 1980s soldiers started appearing on the streets of Paris. They were part of “Operation Pirate Vigil” which usually lasted a few months after

Perestroika

A poetic essay about loss and memory: twenty years after the death of a dear friend, the filmmaker re-enacts a journey on the Trans-Siberian train

Trick or Drink

Trick or Drink is an experimental essay about how alcoholism in the family perpetuates addictive behavior. Green takes aspects of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, such as

Electronic Diaries – Part 3: First Person Plural

THE ELECTRONIC DIARY derives from feminist performances in the 1970’s . Both are concerned with documentation and articulation of identity. THE ELECTRONIC DIARY, however, is

Electronic Diaries – Part 2: Binge

THE ELECTRONIC DIARY derives from feminist performances in the 1970’s . Both are concerned with documentation and articulation of identity. THE ELECTRONIC DIARY, however, is

Aoide

In 2011, when she was offered an exhibition at the Lothringer 13 space in Munich, Hooper discovered that her father John Hooper had exhibited some

Otolith Timeline

Otolith Timeline situates The Otolith Trilogy in a speculative history of the 20th and 21st Century.

Dad’s Stick

Dad’s Stick features three well-used objects that were shown to the artist by his father shortly before he died. Two of these were so steeped in

Watching Paint Dry

A work in on-going progress. Painted, filmed and edited by Jo Ann Kaplan, documenting and reflecting on the artist’s own ageing, to be up-dated and

Genome Chronicles

In the space of a few days in 1998, filmmaker John Akomfrah lost two people very close to him: his mother and a friend, the

Stories

In Stories, Adams fuses storytelling and performance in a reverie on reality and fiction. The artist sits alone in near darkness while, in voiceover, he

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