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: Anthea Kennedy, Ian Wiblin

Year: 2025

A poetic memoir and political report, shot in Berlin and Leipzig, and in landscapes around the British Isles. The film’s narrative builds out from the events of the Reichstag Fire in Berlin in 1933 in which the pioneering German-Jewish sound recordist, Ludwig Koch, on whom the film ultimately centres, plays a minor role, placing him and his family in danger. The film is structured in two parts, juxtaposing Koch’s persecution in Nazi Germany with his experiences as a refugee recording bird song and other sounds in Britain. <br /> The film’s images of contemporary urban and rural terrains, and of objects and documents, create a collision between past and present. Shifts in time are further emphasised through the use of Koch’s original sound recordings from Germany and Britain which feature throughout the film.