On Landguard Point is a film about home created by Suffolk raised Robert Pacitti - founder of the award winning SPILL Festival of Performance and maker and curator of performance art for over 20 years - with original music by Michael Nyman.
Set entirely in the East of England and built through poetry, performance and slips of story. Woven together these forms accumulate ideas around what home means. The film is about trade: what it means to produce and export, or import from elsewhere. It is also then a film about migration, identity and defence. These themes underpin every element of the film and offer up multiple layers of resonance and meaning.
The film is carried by two other voices. The first, our narrator, initially sets the scene before falling into his own poetic visions and daydream. The second is a family of scrolling red LED text boxes, stood in the sea and beginning: HERE IS A MAP…
On Landguard Point features work by internationally acclaimed artists such as Julia Bardsley, Rajni Shah, Kira O’Reilly, Harminder Judge and Mark Peter Wright.
Three mythical stories from the island nation of Vanuatu, South Pacific, concerning the origin of humans, why pigs walk on all fours, and why a volcano sits where it does.
‘It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances’ wrote Oscar Wilde. LAY BARE is a composite portrait of the body, revealing it as it is only rarely seen in the most intimate relationships we have with our family or lovers - erotic and comic, beautiful and vulnerable.
Swandown is a travelogue and odyssey of Olympian ambition. A poetic film-diary about encounter and culture. It is also an endurance test and pedal-marathon. Andrew Kötting (the filmmaker) and Iain Sinclair (the writer) pedal a plastic swan-shaped pedalo from the seaside in Hastings to Hackney in East London, via the English inland waterways. This action may, in part be seen as an act of ‘dada performance’ or as a response to the spirit of Olympic diversity and ambition. The journey and all that it entails is documented on both film and video and presented as a 90-minute feature length experimental documentary.
"I always thought I had a perfect memory. I wanted to show these drawings to you."
A collection of memories, drawings and loss. These images do not exist anymore but the drawing is real. The memory is only in my head.
Water, sunlight, breathing and skin – this is a submersion into the joy of sea swimming by night and by day.
A series of moving portraits and interviews held exclusively in the sea off the coast of Hastings in the South East.
Dave McKean presents The Gospel of Us, the film adaptation of the ground-breaking theatre event starring Michael Sheen. Taking inspiration from one of the defining narratives of our times, this contemporary re-telling of The Passion took place across the town, with the people of Port Talbot as its cast, crew and heroes.
Easter. Port Talbot is in a battle for its life. Authoritarian forces have taken over and the town is in thrall to ICU, a sinister and merciless corporation depleting the town of its resources with scant regard for the residents. The atmosphere is explosive. Resistance is inevitable.
When a company representative and suicide bomber clash on the beach, catastrophe is only averted by the intervention a softly spoken man who had disappeared 40 days earlier. Revealed later as the Teacher (Michael Sheen), he attracts followers and becomes a focus for the Resistance. His influence quickly draws the attention of ICU, who perceive him as a danger who must be removed at all costs…
Gonda starts with the play Ideal by Ayn Rand. As a critical counter, Gonda addresses cinematic and linguistic space by creating settings in which image, text and sound shift roles to affect presupposed ideals of identity and existence. Main actor is Dutch transgender model Valentijn de Hingh.
'Londoners' is a vintage film about modern day London.
Shot entirely on a 100 year old wooden hand-cranked 35mm camera, 'Londoners' documents modern day London as never seen before: a snapshot of contemporary history about urban life in the UK today.
A Channel 4 co-production, completed in March 2012.
In 1977 NASA sent a Golden Record into space. It encapsulated the greatest achievements of humankind, and included photographs of its species. One of these photos is of Larry, a feat he hopes will propel him to the status of the first 'Earth Ambassador!'
Filmed at the Sighthill Stone Circle, built in 1979, Glasgow
"Like slow breathing, it seemed to emanate from inside the walls" LUX Salon, Erik Martinson (2016)
"An Endless Theatre: the convergence of contemporary art and anthropology in observational cinema" University of Edinburgh (2013)
Tramway, Glasgow (2012).
A poet awakens within a strange garden in need of his notebook, pencil & inspiration. A divine couple, breakfasting, observe. A debate unfolds; would inspiration arise from help or hinder? Will the poet find his inspiration?
