Horacio, a former window dresser, sets up complicated charades where women and life-sized dolls change places in a web of jealousy, betrayal and murder.
Inspired by Felisberto Hernández's 'Las Hortensias'.
Official Selection L'Étrange Festival 2019 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Special Events
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020 - Deep Focus
In the latest of his idiosyncratic blends of found-film hallucination and metaphysical comedy routine, director Daniel Cockburn imagines the thoughts that rattle through the Almighty’s head late at night, presuming that He has a head at all.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Short Cuts - World premiere
Shot on 16mm and featuring a soundtrack by Toshiya Tsunoda, Luke Fowler's film pays tribute to the French master’s impressionistic approach to light and nature (notably his Mont Sainte-Victoire series) through his own resplendant glimpses of landscapes and people in Southern France.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Wavelengths - World premiere
CLOUDBERRIES was filmed in Arctic Russia in a village near an offshore gas field. The narrator is 'just visiting’, with villagers including the last Sámi. Sounds of the sea, wildlife, a music festival, a choir, and an abandoned school house accompany the filmmaker until she finally sets out to sea.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere
ETERNAL RETURN is a choreographed, mixed reality exhibition exploring the future of memory. With the visitor’s body and senses as active media, triggered through VR, hyperconnected objects and live performance, the artwork reveals how memory allows for a string of data to be passed through matter, across time.
JUNKERHAUS is shot in the residence of Karl Junker (1850 -1912) who dedicated his life to building his house in Germany. Reflections, projections and changes of light produce a psychological portrait that offers a new appreciation of architecture as a visionary experience.
JUNKERHAUS is shot in the residence of Karl Junker (1850 -1912) who dedicated his life to building his house in Germany. Reflections, projections and changes of light produce a psychological portrait that offers a new appreciation of architecture as a visionary experience.
The story of the black, British experience: one driven by misplaced loyalty, melancholy, and historical reprise stands as a mirror to the traditional tale of Pierrot’s existence under Harlequin’s thumb. This forms the narrative pillar for Sasraku’s semi-autobiographical fairytale, shot on 8mm film.
A CG animated short film that attempts to put human constructs in order. A vertical habitat that models material progression from bare survival to the unhinged dystopia of late capitalism.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Create Strand - World premiere
Drawing on artist Imran Perretta’s own experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage THE DESTRUCTORS explores personal and collective experiences of marginalisation and oppression.
Shot in Tower Hamlets, East London, it reconsiders the figure of alienated male youth, exploring the complexities of ‘coming of age’ for young Muslim men living in the UK.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2020 - Bright Future
With an elephant's ivory tusk as the protagonist, artist-filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland's film meditates upon the endless tactility of museological and ecological conservation, inviting reflection upon forms of representation, replicas, and embodiments of various materials, disciplines, and institutions.
Official Selection Locarno Film Festival 2019 - Moving Ahead - World premiere
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2019 - Wavelengths
