Following a 21-year-old artist suffering from a various mental disorders, including severe perfectionism, she will do up to 10 copies of her work, often throwing it away. After a week of practice with a tattoo gun, will she be able to tattoo someone for the first time?
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...
Sex education. Awkward memories, right? Boys and girls separated, a flustered teacher, the bare biological facts and a dose of shame.
In the Netherlands, they do things differently. Children from the age of four learn to talk about their bodies and sexuality in an open and frank manner.
This documentary observes a diverse group of pre-teens from Amsterdam, having a candid conversation about their changing bodies with an inspiring teacher. This isn’t just a sex ed class, this is an anti-shame class.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand
An invitation to the meal of your dreams. But will it remain a dream, forever out of reach? Drawing on mythological archetypes, the project turns a fine dining experience into a playful exploration of the destructive nature of our appetite and our debt to pleasure.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - New Frontier Exhibitions - World premiere
THE EXPULSION a deeply personal work crafted from the imagination of Larry Achiampong. The short film highlights the rich interior world of an unnamed migrant with references to themes of race, class and gender. In this work, the artist invokes the energy and memories of a pre-gentrified 1990s east London. The film deftly weaving testimonies and daydreams with the monotonous rhythms of physical labour and the weight of frustrating consumerist aspirations in the city’s West End.
Shot in 4k resolution, THE EXPULSION’s lyrical script, undulating visuals and hypnotic original score connect an ever-present past to current concerns of societal iniquity, class ceilings and erased histories.
The multiplicities of Black LGBTQ identities are carefully constructed and deconstructed, discarding the notion of a universal, homogenous experience of the world. Across two screens, parents stretch in gentle yoga poses with their child, a group of friends have a meal in someone’s home, a person vogues outside alone, and a couple hold hands in the back of a taxi. Small moments of affection that are a joy to witness.
Based on Pilvi Takala’s experiences during an intervention at Second Home, East London (a co-working space for entrepreneurs and startups). During the two week-long intervention Takala posed as a wellness consultant, the founder of cutting-edge company 'Personnel Touch' who were allegedly employed by Second Home to provide touching services in the workplace.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Perspectives - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Love Strand
An abstract crime thriller featuring a poodle, a beauty queen, and two sisters who aren't sisters. The film eschews conventional narrative in favour of a more dream-like montage.
Based on Gertrude Stein's eponymously named screenplay and featuring a close personal network of friends and influences as cast.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Directors' Fortnight - World premiere
Following three transgender friends as they navigate some of the harsh realities of being trans in the UK, find their community, and dare to dream of a life without limitations. It's a coming of age story of friendship and hope, love and loss, strength and pride.
Jess wakes up one morning and finds everything has changed! Her boyfriend, Marcel acts strangely and ignores her. She tries to talk to him and even cheer him up but it does not work. Jess understands the shocking truth very soon.
