As If No Misfortune Had Occurred in the Night

Director: Larissa Sansour, Soren Lind

Year: 2019

A sci-fi short set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above.<br /> In the hospital wing of the underground compound, the orchard’s ailing founder is on her deathbed, as her young successor, who is born underground, comes to visit her. The talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory, exile and inherited trauma.<br /> Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Official Short Film Competition - Experimenta Strand

Director: Victoria Davis

Year: 2025

A tribute to British-French-Polish avant-garde artists Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson.<br /> The director revisits the work of the Themersons, some 15 years after TRACES, her previous film about the couple - collecting new memories and featuring contributions from Michael Horowitz, Barbara Right, Nick Wadley.

Director: Lucy Cash, Simone Kenyon

Year: 2019

A meditation on landscape, and a celebration of the words of Scots poet and writer Nan Shepherd (1893–1981). <br /> The film brings together elements of choreography (by Simone Kenyon), fragments of Shepherd's text and a polyvocal score by Hanna Tuulikki.