Is Folkestone the Birthplace of Television?

Director: Ben Barton

Year: 2011

"If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise. If you go down to the woods today, you'd better go in disguise..." An experimental reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood, this visual collage combines elements of fairytales and horror to reveal something unexpected lurking in the forest.

Director: Ben Barton

Year: 2010

In 'Getting Ready' we watch a faded icon of stage and screen backstage as she prepares for the greatest performance of her life - a star-studded suicide. Captured on sumptuous super 8 film and evoking the spirit of old Hollywood, this vintage-style short premiered at the London Independent Film Festival.

Director: Luca Anzalone

Year: 2026

Caught between her indigenous Buryat roots—where art is a shamanic window between worlds—and a Western market that treats culture as a commodity, artist Yuma Radne constructs a monumental canvas to confront the psychological distortions of colonization at the edge of an irreversible era. "Either you make art, or you suffer. It’s like a curse." For painter Yuma Radne, the act of creation is not an aesthetic choice, but an ancestral code carried in the blood. Moving from a remote Siberian village to the high-stakes European art world, Yuma finds herself navigating a surreal landscape where sacred cultural identity is rapidly converted into a luxury product. Through intimate studio dialogues and raw philosophical reflections, the film captures the gruelling physical and mental labour behind her graduation masterpiece, The End of Times. Centred around a gargantuan erupting booze (a traditional Buryat dumpling) mutated into an absurd, monumental symbol of a colonised and erased national identity, the film transcends a typical artist portrait. It becomes a vital, cosmic meditation on why humanity continues to create art in the face of systemic collapse—and a powerful testament to an indigenous culture refusing to be reduced to a souvenir.