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Object Interviews (Part III)

‘Object Interviews’, is a series of three films in which specialists from various fields interpret and discuss a range of film props. Part I features

Object Interviews (Part II)

‘Object Interviews’, is a series of three films in which specialists from various fields interpret and discuss a range of film props. Part I features

Chromatic Aberration

Chromatic Aberration is a film which explores the early technologies of colour filmmaking drawn from the archives of George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Featuring

36 to 77

In 1977 Marc Karlin, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan started work with Jon Sanders on a sequel to Nightcleaners that was to focus on the

Grain

‘Grain’ (2016) is a portrait of Anna Halprin’s Mountain Home Studio built by her husband and environmental architect Lawrence Halprin (1916-2009). A voiceover from Daria

Totally on Fire

Totally on Fire is a conversation across time that restages an exercise from the Esalen Institute, California in the grounds of the secular community Braziers

Correspondência um

Correspondência um. is a collaboration with dance artist Susanne Mayer, taking its title from a year long correspondence and studio practice. The choreography for this

They Parlaient Idéale

They Parlaient Idéale reflects on what it means to be a citizen of a nation, especially when one’s identity is rather ambiguous. A cross-generational and

South

Taking two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side as a point of departure, ‘South’ presents an expressionistic investigation of

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.

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,

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

Early Years

Early Years is a portrait of Jamaican-born artistic polymath Barbara Samuels. It features an account of her first generation, diasporic experience in London, and her

Houses (For Margaret)

Luke Fowler constructed this tribute to Scottish filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait on the occasion of her centenary. Setting off to Tait’s native Orkney, Fowler

Home

A short film depicting a woman putting her children to sleep, cleaning dishes, then dancing with a ghost. Shot on Super 16mm film, Home uses

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