'Part One: Where There Is a Joyous Mood, There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass of Wine' concerns affective relations and community building. The film is like a spell or a promise for a new and more liberating type of family structure. The film has a non-linear narrative that weaves various intimate settings, some within shared domestic spaces, others in outdoor environments. Shot in Lithuania, London, and Edinburgh, the film features the artist and her children, as well as close friends, which she considers extended family.
In the process of creating this new work, Rosalind Nashashibi questions how a group’s sense of commonality is dissolved when there is an absence of communal experience and adherence to linear time. Through an open-ended discussion of space and time travel in the film, which is in part inspired by the creation and dissolution of group relationships in Ursula Le Guin’s “The Shobies’ Story” (1990), Nashashibi explores new modes of conviviality, considering the absence of the nuclear family structure without an imperative model in sight.
Official Selection Berlinale 2019 - Forum Expanded - International premiere
To escape the spectres of a traumatic experience, Tom strikes up a friendship with a younger boy. However, it pulls him into places and memories he’s desperate to forget.
SILENCE is a study of abuse and PTSD, reminding that some things are too big to tackle alone. And that’s okay.
Noah battles to overcome his grief at the death of his mother, a journey that takes him from his flat to beyond the stars.
An animation in stop-motion and oil paint.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Cinéfondation - International premiere
On a grey day, a woman sits alone on a beach and calmly watches the birds. As she sits, she is joined by various people who make up the tapestry of her life, in a film about the fragile, fallible and human stories that compose our memories.
Toni, 13, doesn’t fit in at school. One day, after her situation takes a dive, the internet unexpectedly comes to save her.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Generation Kplus - International premiere
Scans of medical equipment, X-rays and scraps of found material emerge in counterpoint to a fragmentary, manipulated soundtrack led by the human voice. A rumination on the relationship between the body and technology, UNCONTROLLABLE UNIVERSE continues Richards’ investigation into the formal possibilities of collage and an embodied, affective moving image.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Experimenta Strand
Ed Accura is a black British man who develops phobia with water, and as a result wears a lifejacket everywhere he goes. Ed is torn between his friends encouraging him to learn how to swim and society dramatically dampening his confidence with stereotypes on black people and their inability to swim.
Set in Australia between lush wine country and the breathtaking outback, a compelling, evocative and uplifting rite of passage story about a 12-year-old boy’s struggle to step out from the shadows of his Spanish family’s traumatic past and ultimately set himself and his father free.
