The Deep West

Director: Chris Saunders

Year: 2016

This film seeks to challenge the media construction and distortion of social memory through its representation of the disinvestment and regeneration of the Heygate Estate in London. Heygate became 'sexy' in the symbolic economy as a go-to urban dystopian film and TV location, before its demolition and enclosure as a privatised estate.

Director: Chris Saunders

Year: 2001

A Book Of Hours follows a land surveyor and his assistant on a year long drive to the heart of middle England. Updated Medieval world pictures of love, harvest and hunting seen in the original 14th century calendar illustrations become the landscape of a new dark age.

Director: Leo Metcalf

Year: 2024

Olly sifts through his memories searching to understand why he is the way he is. The narrative swings between two contrasting worlds: his memories of his first years, captured by his childhood drawings, and surreal underwater live-action scenes representing his dreams. We witness fragmented memories of a torn family - an abusive father, a mother whose memory seems faded, and a sister, Sally, encouraging her little brother to escape through imagination and dreams. As memory and fantasy blur, The Time Before becomes a meditation on the stories we tell ourselves to survive, and what is lost in the telling. Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2024