Themes: Politics and protest

Crowtrap

CROWTRAP is a documentary fiction work by Callum Hill. Weaving together the lives of two men, this short film draws upon their individual dealings with

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brother to brother

‘brother to brother’ retells the artist’s experience of being detained at an airport under anti-terror laws, chronicling racial profiling, islamophobia and state surveillance at UK’s

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DESH

Shot during a hartal (general strike) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, DESH chronicles the artist’s experience of anxiety attacks and hallucinatory dreams whilst stranded for days in

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The Prince of Homburg

Patrick Staff’s vibrant, colour-coded video uses text from Heinrich von Kleist’s 19th-century play of the same name to explore themes of persecution and punishment to

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Two Stones

Two Stones explores the trajectories and ideals of the Bauhaus-trained, German architect Lotte Stam-Beese and the Caribbean activist and writer Hermina Huiswoud through dialogues and

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Her Name in My Mouth

Invoking a lineage of female ancestors through embodiment, gesture and the archive, Her Name in My Mouth reimagines the Aba Women’s War, a major anti-colonial

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Birth of a Nation

In Birth of a Nation, Jem Cohen takes his camera to Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration and to the next day’s protests.

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Disco Breakdown

Disco Breakdown is a performance video, one in a series of four ‘music video’ works that seek to ‘queery’ the music video format. Found footage

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The Zombie Diaries

The Zombie Diaries is loosely framed as the testimony of a new mother becoming a zombie. Filmed over two years we see her child age,

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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Laki Haze

Laki Haze (2020) Following the eruption of the Lakakigar volcano, Iceland in 1783, a sulphurous haze shrouded vaste swathes of the northern hemisphere, causing widespread

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