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Island Race

Island Race was filmed on the streets of the East End of London between spring 1994 and summer 1995. The film contrasts everyday events with

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Ahead, the dark superstructure of the Canary Wharf complex looms over the western horizon. It is blacked out, save for the pulsing strobe of the

The Streets Of…

Produced in San Francisco and Brighton. A tape about the representations of an American city produced by a television series, tourist photographs, guide books, travelogues

Drive All Your Cares Away

Propelled by Fruitloop’s track Run and Try It, the latest Honey Brother’s film mixes cartoon colours, iconography and multilayered images in a pulsating journey through

Ghost

” Gweilo” in Cantonese means ghost; the term of abuse used about the pale skinned, white eyed foreigners from the West. The videotape presents a

Blind Grace

Blind Grace is a tense, poetic essay on the marginal people and forgotten, neglected places of New York City, in which chance, fleeting meetings between

Things I Forget To Tell Myself

“In Shelly Silver’s Things I Forget To Tell Myself, a fragmented textual statement is interspersed with imagery culled from NYC, much of it cropped by

You Take Care Now

Flemming’s perilous travelogue recites, in first person voice-over, a tale of two cities. The first is Brindisi, where the patent sexism of her surroundings leads

Stressed

‘Stressed‘ BAFTA nominated animated film and International Award Winning Animated Film directed, animated and art worked by Karen Kelly. The film follows the interwoven lives

Blight

Blight was made in collaboration with the composer Jocelyn Pook. It revolves around the building of the M11 Link Road in East London, which provoked a

Warp And Witness

‘Warp & Witness is a five minute black and white and colour film shot on 16 mm and video. The film describes a chaotic, fragmented

Norwood

In Norwood, the narrator of the earlier Stonebridge Park returns from exile in Nice to attempt a property speculation in south London. Actuality footage ‘photographed

Stonebridge Park

Stonebridge Park was prompted by the length and articulation of a footbridge over railway lines in northwest London, the resulting film comprising moving-camera footage accompanied

Money

Money, an extremely condensed work unfolding upon multiple viewings, is a document of the state of contemporary performance practice among poets, musicians and dancers in

Department of the Interior

A suburban landscape is recast in a rhythm of continual tonal shifts, dissolving between negative and positive images, and between sound and image tone. Interwoven

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