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.
A spirited celebration of extraordinary everyday humanity. Filmed over seven years, ESTATE, A REVERIE reveals and celebrates the resilience of residents who are profoundly overlooked and stereotyped by media representations and wider social responses. Interweaving intimate portraits with the residents’ own historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes, the documentary poses the question as to how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography…
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.
Foxes is the story of a young estate agent and his 10 year old son, as they adjust to living together after years apart. Set against the backdrop of the property market in London, this is a film about a father focused on his own success rather than his son.
'Heidi Slater' a digital suicide-note or a twisted video Manifesto?
I am Heidi Slater (pseudonym) and I present to you my film -'Heidi Slater' which is
MY PERSONAL representation of the tragic events of the 18th of March 2013. I have edited together a collection of footage taken while (I thought) I was shooting a low budget Horror movie, in fact, 'The Director' was shooting something entirely different.
I now take back control of my life by facing my fears and editing this film together.
Chronicles the friendship that ensued when the straight-laced Magnum photographer Dennis Stock embarked on a road trip with James Dean in 1955 for a Life magazine commission.
A filmmaker/cameraman produces a retrospective of his life's work and begins a journey into the darkest recesses of his mind. Through a combination of interviews with friends and family, film clips, archive footage and a video diary, we find a man in search of the truth - no matter how painful.
In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, Anni, a young woman of Anglo/Indian descent, returns to Kerala in Southern India for the first time since the death of her mother sixteen years ago. She is there to support the relief effort, but when she goes to stay with her reclusive step father, Charles, she finds herself on a journey to rediscover her mother and uncover the mysterious circumstances surrounding her mother's death.
Against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions within her rural English community, the life of eleven year old Hannah changes forever when she meets a boy from a forbidden part of town.
Official Selection Cannes 2015 - Shorts Competition
