A hybrid documentary about the decommissioning of a nuclear plant in Scotland. Concerned with landscape and time, myth and technology, the film explores the nature of ruins, and asks what environmental scars our generation will leave behind for the future.
Official Selection Visions du Réel 2019 - World premiere
Borrowing the speech bubble aesthetics of a comic book, a fresh take on the female assassin story.
Kora is a deadly but also lonely hit-woman, living in London. By day, she plays the Cello and teaches kids how to play music. By night, she eliminates targets, following instructions from her handler - Andre - a voice on the other end of a telephone. Kora is looking for a way to change her life when a violent coincidence presents itself. A local underworld mobster who has heard the tale of the mortally dangerous woman gets hold of Andre’s phone number, and manages to set a trap for Kora. It’s a nasty surprise but it's a chance to get out, and she takes it.
Filmed in Tripoli, Lebanon, Concrete Forms of Resistance is a documentary centred upon the city’s abandoned ‘Permanent International Fair’, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the mid-1960s. Progress and crisis, labour and capital, material and memory, are reflected through a very intelligent rhyme between image and sound. The touching voice and words of Niemeyer as a call for life, and the beautiful camerawork as a weaving of ghosts in the present landscapes.
An investigation of Blackness, labour, diaspora and family heritage through archive, glitch, strobe and sound. A commitment to the Windrush generation.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand
The writer Deborah Levy imagines a lost lecture written by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. It investigates an hysterical woman dancing through time, snow leopards lapping milk in the kitchen of Freud’s last house, and a journey under the ground on a ghost train.
Using as base Thomas Edison’s 1894 filming of the Sioux American Indian ‘Ghost Dance’, the piece explores dance as a form of resistance against the imposition of foreign powers, using footage of the Sioux dancing against the white settlers in North America and protest dances in other locations including Gaza, South Africa and Peru.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand
A short poetic and experimental documentary exploring synaesthesia, a neuro-cognitive phenomenon where one or more senses are blended together. ‘My Dad Is Orange’ will take you on a multi-sensory journey where you can explore a world where it is possible to smell sounds or even taste colours.
The little creatures of the riverbank emerge to bask in the glow of an enchanting moon.
Toby Tatum's NIGHT ON THE RIVERBANK was created through reworking footage from a forgotten B&W children’s programme.
A comical triptych featuring the most revered animal of all time – the human being – in its natural habitat. Watch how he interacts with the other animals around him.
A bowling alley, a gallery, a studio, a pregnancy and a pop song. Kathryn Elkin tackles, with her usual sense of humour, issues around labour, creation, biography, being an artist and the transforming pregnant body. QUEEN was conceived and shot during the artist’s pregnancy and first months of parenthood.
Official Selection Visions du Réel 2019 - International Competition - World premiere
During sleep and cornered by the lack of meaning a reluctant hedgehog creates a puzzle that can't be solved. But even within the dream the hedgehog is neither able to let it go nor to solve it and stubbornly tries to make sense of the absurdity...
