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Paradise Lost: History in the Un-Making

When filmmaker Andy Howlett set out with his camera to document the final days of Birmingham's Brutalist Central Library complex, little did he know the rabbit hole he was stumbling into. Decried by the Council as an eyesore, but hailed by Historic England as an exemplar of postwar design, the story of John Madin's concrete colossus and the fight to save it is a curious one. In this psychogeographic detective story, Howlett weaves together archive footage with on-the-ground explorations in an attempt to figure out why we lost Paradise and how it might be regained.

Paradise Lost: History in the Un-Making

NR 2021
Pervading Animal

Graeme Arnfield’s kaleidoscopic essay film revolves around the story of Dr. Joseph Popp, an evolutionary biologist and architect of one of the earliest known examples of ransomware. In 1989, Dr. Popp distributed 20,000 floppy disks containing what would come to be known as the digital AIDS virus – a malevolent trojan horse that scrambled the contents of the victims’ computers and offered to unlock them only in return for a ‘licensing fee.’ Working with a range of digitally manipulated found footage, Arnfield explores the legacy of Popp’s virus drawing surprising connections to the US invasion of Panama, the construction of a butterfly conservatory in New York and the aesthetics of computational art.

Pervading Animal

NR 2021
Ashens and the Fly on the Wall

This 45 minute making-of documentary takes you behind the scenes on the set of Ashens and the Polybius Heist. Alongside a healthy portion of silly shenanigans from cast & crew, the film offers a unique and raw insight into the tough realities of independent filmmaking. Find out what literally kept the director up all night, what was wrong with Barry's hotel room and what total disaster led to the film being delayed by over six months. It's one hell of a ride, and should be a great watch for anyone who follows the cast or is just interested in low-budget movies in general.

Ashens and the Fly on the Wall

NR 2021
GYN01D

GYN01D is a collaged film following the origin story of artist/cyborg Mi55SH3LL and is influenced by the lesbian experience, and how the artist connected with her own queerness throughout her adolescence living in a homophobic environment. Mi55SH3LL is obsessed with queer liberation informed by new technologies, digital systems and the internet. She is motivated by the idea that the cyberspace is another space for us to exist in and what the implications would be for queer identities. Mi55SH3LL is inspired by how these could be used as generative tools in creating work that is concerned with queer futures. The story is stitched together using found sound from science fiction movies to video games.

GYN01D

NR 2021
Bob @ 100

May 2021 will mark the centenary of the birth of British animator Bob Godfrey. To celebrate, The Bob Godfrey Collection is making a new documentary looking at the life and career of this Oscar & BAFTA legend of British animation. Featuring archive footage, interviews of Bob himself and new contemporary interviews, the documentary will look at all aspects of Bob’s life, from his beginnings as a background artist through to becoming an Oscar winning filmmaker , as well as his career as a Royal Marine Commando.

Bob @ 100

NR 2021
9,000 Square Feet

Cesar Picton lived on Kingston High Street on the outskirts of London at the end of the 18th century, in the midst of the British Industrial Revolution. As a child, he was brought to England on a slave ship from Senegal and grew up as a servant of Sir John Phillips. He later gained independence and became a successful coal merchant and a wealthy gentleman who lived in a white house by the River Thames. A local man comes across this white house during a walk through the town centre. He calls a phone number that he finds on a sign outside the building. At a time of restricted human interaction, this attempt to make contact with the house’s former inhabitant from 200 years ago takes an unexpected turn.

9,000 Square Feet

NR 2021
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

An animated film based on the painting about Max Ernst of the same title, he said that a “fevervision” he had experienced when he was sick with measles as a child inspired him to compose the haunting scene that unfolds in Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale. Merging collage and painting, he affixed a wooden gate, parts of a toy house, and a knob to a dreamlike painted landscape. A blue sky dominates the composition, and in it a small nightingale hovers above two young girls. The painting features what would come to be identified as the defining preoccupations of Surrealism, a movement in which Ernst was a central figure: dreams and the unconscious; sexuality (as represented, for example, by the girl’s phallic knife); and incongruous juxtapositions.

Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale

NR 2021