An impressionist journey through the archive of the Leeds Pavilion, which in the 1980s started out as a feminist photo studio. Former members, male and female, give their vision of the studio’s artistic and activist past, the reasons for which are as current as ever.
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015 - World premiere
Dreams Rewired traces the desires and anxieties of today’s hyper-connected world back more than a hundred years, when telephone, film and television were new. As revolutionary then as contemporary social media is today, early electric media sparked a fervent utopianism in the public imagination – promising total communication, the annihilation of distance, an end to war. But then, too, there were fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality.
Using rare (and often unseen) archival material from nearly 200 films to articulate the present, Dreams Rewired reveals a history of hopes to share, and betrayals to avoid.
Eyrie documents a visit to commemorative building built by the communist party in Bulgaria. The action taken by the artist at the centre of the work suggests an exploration as a space for play and speculation, displacing the insistent materiality of the site and the reverence of the ruin.
Tina reflects on the life of her mother Norma, in a dream-like exploration of Norma's extraordinary collection of belongings.
International Competition IFF Message to Man 2015
Nominated for Best Documentary at London Short Film Festival 2016
The Collector's Case was produced during Yelena Popova’s residency at Upton House, a National Trust property in Warwickshire. The video records the time Popova spent working with the collection of paintings at Upton House and reflects on the temporality of a painting collection.
The Lawes of the Marches documents the ancient border tradition of the Common Ridings all along the border of England and Scotland. These ridings are about marking and commemorating the past with as much relevance today as when they began in 1500.
Part of the ongoing work, 'Fucking Finland', exploring unintended cultural chinks and links in the old Iron Curtain, 'Your Silent Face' follows the dockers of Rostock at rest, as a Baltic ferry leaves port for Hanko in Finland.
Everyone in the world has the same identity. Over a period of time, one person starts to discover he's different and can move on his own accord. He realises he has his own identity and decides to separate from everyone else.
Weaving around a theory of immortality based on the premise that our lives are a summation of all the information we consume and process, the film draws on my personal history's brush with a global nuclear disaster, to precipitate a meditation on the potential role of an individual in the imaginary film/event of our individual or collective death: as a protagonist or an extra appearing in a handful of frames at the very moment of their death.
The time has finally arrived. Sen has prepared an amazing dinner for his date, Esther. She is the perfect date. They are perfect humans, as has been written in all the main books. But like all good plans, things don't turn out quite like our hero expected.
Martin, a recovered drug addict, agrees to lock a stranger in his spare room while they go cold turkey. As the days go on, Martin begins to suspect something far worse is at play, but his judgment is clouded by temptations to fall back into old habits.
