Made in and around Thrapston, a market town in Northamptonshire, The Great Bear explores narratives of labour and landscape in the English Midlands. Intensified by its focus on the young, activities and subjectivities of work entwine with patterns of seasonal change, the landscape both source and product of working life.
A dreamlike montage of a woodland, a dog and a search in twilight. The Search evokes the intensity of searching for a cadaver, where a dog trained to seek out the scent of decomposition takes us on a hunt around a wild landscape.
Inspired by the shapes and sounds of Kingston upon Hull, an audio-visual project that explores the city over the course of a day, focusing on the quiet drama in the scenes that are everywhere yet overlooked: the familiar seen from an unfamiliar perspective.
A personal essay film centred on copla - a form of Spanish lyrical song which powerfully communicates emotions of sorrow and the profound sadness of woman.
The film combines filmmaker Nina Danino's interest in the female voice with archive and newly filmed performances. The film sets out to look for copla and the women and singers of copla and on her own memory and experience of it.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
A Line Was Drawn weaves together material from a number of different sources including animated sequences, television and film archives with two distinct voiceover narrations. The work explores issues of how our world is structured through the creation of borders and boundaries limiting movement, thinking, questioning and agency.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
QUEERING DI TEKNOLOJIK is a message from the future. Spoken by the collective digital voice of a group of queer artists and activists, this collaborative project speculates about the possibilities of a temporality yet to come. This is a message of hope.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
How does a feather sound as it drifts through the air and how do you feel when you hear it? Are we really aware of the sensations and feelings that our bodies experience? These are just some of the questions TERTIARY SOUND asks.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Create Strand - World premiere
Beginning in Vienna where the filmmaker meets her father, David, whom she hasn’t seen since she was two. Through a mixture of onscreen text, sit down interviews and archival footage, David’s early life as a teenage activist in Northern Ireland is revealed. The film then travels to Belfast and segues into an impossible reconstruction of David’s early years. In and attempt to better know him, Garnett uses previously recorded audio interviews to skillfully craft a lip-synced, cross-gender performance where she impersonates the his youthful presence and casts a transgender actress in the role of his girlfriend. The film cycles through various camera modes – narrative vignettes on RED alongside handheld camcorder footage of contemporary Belfast street life mixed with these verbatim re-enactments – to create a fragmented account of a teenager struggling to find an identity in a rapidly deteriorating society, and the parallel struggle of a filmmaker to connect with her estranged father. The layers of texture in this film mirror the fractured lens of history, and point to the impossibility of filmmaking as a container for 'Truth'. In TROUBLE, cinema is a means of rebuilding family ties of highlighting the complexities of representation and the construction of identity.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
A meditation on landscape, and a celebration of the words of Scots poet and writer Nan Shepherd (1893–1981).
The film brings together elements of choreography (by Simone Kenyon), fragments of Shepherd's text and a polyvocal score by Hanna Tuulikki.
Tam gets the first tube home alone. In just a crop-top and high-waisted jeans he re-lives his Halloween night out.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Create Strand - World premiere
Inspired by a real car crash and by political rupture in 1996, part Road movie, part film noir the film challenges genre conventions to propose a post rupture female led future.
Four passengers on a journey in a black Mercedes are unaware of their significance as state archetypes: a Police Commissioner, a Politician and a Right-wing Assassin. The fourth passenger is Yenge, the only female traveller, a woman silenced by the genre conventions of her role in the film. After a rupture Yenge’s noir voiceover begins to interrupt the male characters’ forced bravado as they are haunted by the Resistant Dead – the residual movements created from stories of people refusing to be forgotten. The film’s destination, The Gossip, addresses tales of female emancipation and empowerment, where a group of female activists transcend time, geographical borders and linguistic barriers to gather in a neutral nether-realm of conversation and mutual support.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
