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Pervading Animal

In the mid 1980’s an Harvard trained biologist created a computer virus. While researching the reproductive capacities of HIV he had become fascinated by computer

The Phantom Menace

Welcome to the age of cosmic radiation! In 2021 the Sun fell to its lowest point of activity since the birth of science. Its magnetic

Shouting at the Ground

In a peat bog in North West England a Spanish woman was murdered, her body buried and subsumed into the treacherously dense ecological matter. A

Colossal Cave

“Somewhere nearby is Colossal Cave. Magic is said to work in the cave. I will be your eyes and hands.” Excavated from the world’s largest

History of the Present

An experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict, ‘History of the Present’ has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions

Mindwandering in a Van

A van travels around London. Participants are asked to listen to music and then recall what they were thinking about. Mindwandering is an exstablished field

Sounds from Beneath

Sounds from Beneath began with the artist Mikhail Karikis inviting a coal miners’ choir to recall and sing the sounds they used to hear when they worked

Of Girls

Filmed in Tokyo and Yokohama, of girls brings a variety of contemporary voices in resonance with two distinct female voices from Japan’s literary and political

Ungentle

Ungentle is a film based on a script by Huw Lemmey and co–directed with Onyeka Igwe, exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male

Genevieve

A portrait of monuments and people living in Geneva, Switzerland. Through short encounters and interviews with local residents and artists they discuss the public representation

Teleny

‘Teleny’ is a partial adaptation of Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal, an anonymous pornographic novel published in 1893. Scenes of dialogue between the

White Adonis

White Adonis is a video which references James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, while using as its inspirational myth the scene of Adonis’ death. The video was

Empire of the Swamp

“Empire of the Swamp” (2023) begins with a figure wandering from the mangrove swamps surrounding the city edges of Singapore to Bukit Brown Cemetery in

House Works

A politics of the interior of the house – as both psychological and physical space – is lacking in historical accounts of modern architecture. The

Immaterial Terrain

Immaterial Terrain is a film made by Emily Richardson along a seven-mile stretch of the Suffolk coast between Sizewell nuclear power station and the mythic

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