Projects in genres: Experimental

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In 'Akula Dream' a Russian Akula submarine gets a new captain. However, the new captain is much more into Shamanic drumming, journeying, seances, and mind experiments than he is in nuclear deterrent. Not surprisingly, there is some tension aboard. In form, the film straddles two registers; narrative film making and video art. It uses advanced CGI and has unusual dream sequences as members of the boat travel outside the hull. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Constructed entirely from existing films, the film offers a journey through fear and cinema that asks whether horror movies know us better than we know ourselves. Encouraging viewers to interrogate a diverse range of images and sounds sampled from a hundred years of global cinema, the aim of the documentary is to change the way audiences watch horror movies for good.

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Two men apparently in the future revisit images from their past centred on race and cultural identity, exploring their relationship whilst acknowledging their difference, finding guidance in the plays of Frantz Fanon. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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An extraordinary journey with two hunters - a deerstalker and a trickster – who patrol a semi-fictional landscape until the trickster creates a weapon that causes his own demise. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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A scene from François Truffaut’s film Fahrenheit 451 is reimagined as the autonomous and distracted contemporary commuter experience of ubiquitous mobile device use, visually re-scored in real time with a live performance by a choir. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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"'Black Code/Code Noir' unites temporally and geographically disparate elements into a critical reflection on two recent events: the murders of Michael Brown and Kajieme Powell by police officers in the U.S. in 2014. Archaeologically, the film argues that behind this present situation is a sedimented history of slavery, preserved by the Black Code laws of the colonies in the Americas. These codes have transformed into the algorithms that configure police Big Data and the necropolitical control of African Americans today. Yet how can we read in this present? How can we unwrite the sorcery of this code as a hack? Through a historical détournement the film suggests the Haitian Revolution as the first instance of the Black Code’s hacking and as a past symbol for a future hope." Louis Henderson Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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Taking as its starting point American modernist William Gaddis’ epic experimental novel, JR, 'Crippled Symmetries' meditates on questions of indeterminate value and what it means to grow up in a society beset by abstraction. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Considering innate human foraging behaviour by comparing a biologist’s field study of goshawks with searching in other contexts. The project developed from conversations between the artist Duncan Marquiss and his father, biologist Dr. Mick Marquiss. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Narratives mined from online drug user support forums, where codified anonymising practices create an uncanny duality of simultaneous intimacy and disavowal. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev receive endless appreciation for their sublime 1966 Royal Ballet 'Romeo and Juliet' performance. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand - World premiere

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Turner prize-winning artist Mark Leckey’s autobiographical film started with a piece of found bootleg documentation of a Joy Division gig that he attended in 1979, and the realisation that many of our personal memories and experiences can now be found online. From there, 'Dream English Kid' attempts to create a record of all the significant events in Leckey’s life during the late 20th Century through found traces of film, adverts and popular music- Benjamin Cook, LFF Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2015 - Experimenta Strand

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Captain Maurice Seddon, an inventor and eccentric in the great English tradition, made electrically heated clothing for ‘paraplegics, sclerotics, arthritics, rheumatics, the poor and landscape painters’. The details of his extremely modest, uncompromising way of life are here unpicked through a rich weave of incredible archival TV appearances from around the world (he featured on amongst others, the David Letterman show) plus very touching 16mm and mobile phone footage shot by friend and director William English. 'Heated Gloves' evokes Ben Rivers' 'Two Years at Sea' and the Maysles brothers' 'Grey Gardens', whilst highlighting the codes of television reportage and remaining in and of itself very special and unique – just like its subject. (LFF brochure) BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere