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The word 'diva' is used to describe otherworldly talent - a term bestowed upon the best of the best in the world of opera. But somewhere along the line, the meaning got polluted by the male-dominated world of showbiz. In this programme, Ana Matronic reclaims the word by presenting five legendary artists.
Wilhelm Hansen was a visionary businessman who lived in Denmark in the 19th century. He was one of the few collectors to take an interest in Impressionist painters at a time when they were attacked and denigrated. The film takes us to Hansen's summer house on the outskirts of Copenhagen and takes us on a tour of the extraordinary exhibition at the Royal Academy in London dedicated to his collection.
Mercury's Retrograde is an inner dialogue about seeking answers, presented in a comic and lighthearted way, concealing a deeper, tragic truth of our generation.
A woman walks and starts to turn. She continues to turn in different places as we follow, impossibly locked on to her body. Finally floating above her as she turns and walks away.
A movement-led piece, Lost Time represents a positive journey into learning to coexist with time by rising above the uncertainties of the future.
Tired of her life, a young girl plans to leave Earth.
Aesthetically bold, visually rich – a beautiful non-linear encounter with the physical and social dimensions of chronic pain.
Homeless ex-soldier Mark has PTSD and is haunted by tragedy from his time in combat, causing chaos for ex-wife Emma. When Mark goes missing, Emma is desperate to find him and help Mark fight his demons.
Jenny Graham designs a grueling training ride, over 1200 kilometres, in preparation for one of the toughest solo ultra endurance races in the world, The Transcontinental. Exploring the history and rules of The TCR, Jenny chats to Race Director Anna Haslock, past winner James Hayden, Performance Coach Laura Penhaul, and cycling Chef Alan Murchision for expert advice on how to tackle the race. From her home in Scotland to Bath in the South West England, Jenny’s ride will test the physical and mental fitness she’ll need to tackle the 4000 kilometre race across Europe.
Content with lazy days, pizza, Mario Kart and box sets, Daniel and Mary are a twenty-something couple with their lives stuck on pause - that is until two, very familiar-looking, visitors from the future come to hit fast-forward and blow some smoke up their bums.
When his car breaks down, Jay is lost in a cold foggy landscape. There’s no cell phone signal, and his battery is dying. At last, there’s a passing car, and he hitches a lift. But he has no idea where the car will take him.
In Sam Firth's essay film "Field Notes On Love" a romantic relationship between a filmmaker and an ecologist interweaves explorations of categorisation, individuality, and a collective 'us'. Human and nonhuman entanglements are enticingly allegorised amidst a lush Scottish woodland.
Twelve full moons were filmed consecutively each month for a year starting on the full Blue Moon of October 2020 and finishing on the full moon of 21 September 2021. Very fortunately I recorded 2 Blue Moons over the 12 months. The second part of the title refers to "Nokomis" meaning "Grandmother" to the Native North American language of the Ojibwe or Ainishinaabe people and made famous by the Longfellow's poem "The Song of Hiawatha". The full moon names are those given them by the Native North Americans.
The Village is a gentle audio-visual soundscape that immerses viewers in rural British springtime. Equal space is gifted to characters, animals and nature as they quietly interact and co-exist. Filmed entirely in lockdown, The Village is a moment of gratitude and simple admiration for the season; a soft intake of breath amidst a time of chaos.
This film is a celebration of queer collective joy. After being separated by the pandemic, a group of dance artists come together to reconnect, go full out and feel what it's like to really dance outside of their bedrooms again. Curated by fraserfab, O.K Norris and Pierre who also write and perform powerful spoken word, with music by illyr and light installation by Joshua Harriette.
The film is set in a modern-day city at night and follows a woman’s journey through the dark streets alone, until she becomes aware of being stalked by a shadowy figure.
Many Ghanaians are aware of this night-biter living amongst them, yet they still choose to ignore the danger.
In "Sudden Death", Rhona Mühlebach investigates phytophthora ramorum, a tree disease transmitted by rainwater and carried via rivers and streams. As a stylish experimental crime thriller shot with plenty of humour in Galloway Forest Park, the film comments on control, wilderness and the non-native. You'll be wishing you had breakfast.
This is a new video work by artist duo Cat and Éiméar McClay. It entwines Catholic prayers with queer experience. Narrated by a written text, language folds and falls in on itself. Animated tableaus of Catholic paraphernalia and strikes of elemental weather accompany the words. Together, they enact the historically fraught relationship between queerness and the Catholic church.
Ari performs as a Jewish Drag King, much to the confusion of their family. Idolising real-life hero, Pepi Littman, who carved out a space for Drag Kings over 100 years ago, they use this history to open up a space for acceptance in the present.
Architects joined by Parallax Orchestra perform the entire For Those That Wish To Exist album live at Abbey Road
Care is the feature length adaptation of Klein's ICA commissioned musical from 2018, and is an autobiography, musical, animation and diary entry that explores the social care system, friendship and angst through the eyes of Abike (played by Klein) who's been moved from foster home to foster home and what happens when her sister goes missing. It is an ambitious feature film debut which is written, directed, edited and scored by Klein. Filmed throughout the Spring of 2021, the film features, amongst others, an ensemble of street casted kids as well as the musicians Mica Levi & Kwake Bass, grime MCs Musti & Kibo and the poet and scholar Fred Moten, who plays Abike's father. Illustrations are by Evie O'Connor.
Join heroic Quartermain, the world's most thrilling adventure seeker, as he hunts for the treasure of King Solomon's Mines! Deep within a remote mountain somewhere in Africa lies the gold and endless riches of the legendary King Solomon. Many have tried to find the treasure - but none have succeeded! Now Allan Quartermain's determined to locate the bounty, but first he must battle the wild's of Africa and the ferocious Kukuana tribe - who are intent on keeping the treasure for themselves! It's an expedition in excitement and adventure that will have your whole family on the edge of their seats!
A teenage girl receiving anonymous hate messages finds the situation complicated when her aggressive older brother tries to intervene.
Deriving its name from a root meaning “covered”, or “hidden”, the Huldra are one of several Rå, or wardens, and are associated with the ‘hidden folk’ of the legends of Scandinavia, woodland analogues to the aquatic sjörå, or mermaids, and the mountain cave-dwelling bergsrå.
Kandinsky-inspired painted abstract shapes convey the joy of thrilling movement, as Jemima tells us not to see her as “wheelchair-bound”.
After feeling that he does not belong to the world around him, he withdraws into himself in an inner world in which he lives through books and movies, but ends up feeling like a spectator in his own life.
Ned is an absolute Jingle, and loves everything Christmassy, Noah hates Christmas after a traumatic event in his Childhood, and this is their first Christmas living together. Will chaos ensue as the couple try to find a middle ground, or will this mean an end for their relationship?
Nick Beake travels to Norway to meet the young people taking on their government in an attempt to prevent further drilling for oil and gas. They believe their country's export of fossil fuels is putting the planet in peril, and it's one of many similar fights emerging across Europe.
Discussing the trope Magical Negro and the effect of performative representation.
A young polar bear fights to survive the melting Arctic environment.
Mockumentary in which Catherine's family and friends reveal how they lost her to motherhood. However, it's Catherine who has the final say.
Vasilisa is an experimental multi-medium animated short film informed by the slavic folk tale of Vasilisa the Fair. Using both stop-motion and digital animation, Vasilisa uses both abstraction and pastiche to explore the themes and motifs of its source material - these including: personal identity, womanhood and liberation, as well as the director’s own cultural heritage.
Iorram is a lyrical portrait of the Gaelic-speaking fishing community in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and its intimate relationship with the sea. This first-ever theatrical documentary entirely in Scottish Gaelic blends archive recordings of voices, stories and songs from the past with visuals of island life today and a contemporary folk score, to take the audience on an immersive and moving journey into the heart of an ancient community struggling to preserve its identity in the modern globalized world.
'Haven in Hell' is a final performance project.
On the release day of her debut album, Maisie Peters performs at the Lafayette in London. This abridged recording presents 8 of the 15 songs that comprised that show.
Samantha Bombay and Jackson Cake live in a shared flat with Derek Stone. Unbeknownst to the couple, Derek is the notorious serial killer of Piggy Bank Road, the Pig-Headed Man. With Samantha revealing to Derek that she's thinking about becoming a vegan, time is running out before he strikes his next victim. Will the duo be able to discover Derek's secret before it's too late?
As the use of plastic has gained ground in our lives over the years, there has been an inexplicable increase in a number of diseases and disorders amongst the population. In this film as part of the Why Plastic? series, we meet leading researchers looking into the reasons for these disorders. We also follow case studies of people suffering from various health conditions thought to be caused by exposure to certain every day materials including plastic. Are these people the victims of unfortunate coincidences - or is there an explanation?
In the near future, replica Android humans have been developed and live eceryday among humans. Cara is pushed to her limits by her owner. She has to make a choice - stay with her owner or join an android revolution to fight change for her kind.
An AI computer-vision system reconstructs footage of humanity in different contexts - business, love, city, joy, protest. The next-frame-prediction technology is trying to predict the future based on just a couple of seconds from each clip, producing surprisingly hallucinatory video outputs, engaging with surrealist and expressionist painting tradition. The AI-produced material is arranged by the human artist in a narrative reflecting on the tenderness of the human body, the implications of AI interacting with it, and the politics of its usage. We are a viral breath, one embodiment, connected to each other physically, socially and psychologically. Now it's becoming mediated by machines, controlled by corporations and governments. The work explores senses of touch and body as seen by algorithmic processes.
During the first lockdown a teenager wanders London’s streets at night, tagging buildings in his manor. One night, while creating a new artwork he hears music from a nearby abandoned building, and finds a girl dancing ballet, sparking a newfound curiosity and desire for dance, much to the dismay of his blokey father.
A creative exploration and amplification of the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of Signkid, a deaf-rapper in London.
A congregation of images around Newington Green, Stoke Newington, and the surrounding streets form a meeting place for the locals to reflect on their understanding of working-class culture and the local area.
A digitally collapsing memory of an afternoon in 2018.
During the 1980s the cottage arson campaign claimed the headlines and confused Welsh police forces for years. But who were the Sons of Glyndŵr, the group who claimed to be responsible? And why was Bryn Fôn wrongly charged and remanded in custody? The singer and actor is determined to find out the truth.
The Tindalls are on the surface an unlikely pairing of a Wakefield-born rugby union player and the daughter of the Princess Royal born and bred in a royal palace. This programme looks at their life together, from the highs to the lows, revealing how they carved out successful careers for themselves and supported each other along the way.
An intimate and honest portrayal of the overlooked communities of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The spaces where the villas can be found were, until very recently, left blank on maps, yet their associations with crime and poverty are well-known and often perpetuated by local media. Tourists visiting Buenos Aires are often warned not to wander into the villas. But in reality, these are vibrant hubs where people get by on wits and ingenuity. Where everything they have, they make: from buildings to power lines to sewage systems. And where the marginalized of society come together to form diverse, self-governing communities.
An Evening with Taglioni is based on a true story. When legendary ballerina Marie Taglioni, the first woman to ever go 'en pointe' retired, her pointe shoes were bought by a fan, cooked at a lavish dinner party and served to 35 guests.
A story based off the life of Josephine Baker.
After years apart, Dan and Lisa, both musicians and former partners, meet again on a cold autumn day in 1971. Resentment, pain and eerie secrets all lurk beneath the surface.
A filmic response to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s text, Romancing the Anti-body (1995), exploring the jarring juxtapositions of friction, toxicity, joy and liberation that trans people, queers and femmes experience when playing as their own custom character creations in video game spaces.
Five short stories (Flour; Water; Yeast; Dough; Bread) exploring stories from Holodomor, Ukraine 1932-33. A search and journey for stories within groups, histories and identities, personal histories, and truth and how it manifests itself and shifts and changes over time.
A woman marries a rich property guru but after a while she finds that this is not for her. She is a strong professional woman an accountant even though originating and migrating from abroad to the United Kingdom after marriage she finds her British rich husband too dominating. She feels that he does not lavish his wealth on her enough even though he carries all her living expenses.
Just another day at the office? Unfortunately not for Ella... Sorry, what? A comedy sketch by HEN! An award-winning comedy sketch group.
A short, socially critical mosaic shot on 16mm film explores how much the way of thinking has changed in Western society in the past few decades, wondering whether equality and diversity are a matter of course, or whether they are still just meaningless words. Patrick Tarrant’s film juxtaposes excerpts from White magazines from the past century and mechanical voice-over segments of an online learning module on equality, inclusion and diversity for present-day employees. – Ji.hlava IDFF 2021 "Mandatory Training is a slightly ornery reaction to being forced to complete computer-based training and tests on matters that range from the banal to the ideological. For better or worse, if you answer wrongly on a question relating to race or gender, for example, you can, as the module explains, keep repeating the test until you pass." – Patrick Tarrant
Jun explores the ideas of South Korean craftsman Jun Rhee, and his view on the importance of handmade ceramics over factory made tableware in today’s society.
An 8-year-old boy searching for fireworks on a Chinese New Year's Eve, after the firework ban is introduced in this southern Chinese town.
A cross-section of women share their experiences with UTI and being failed by primary healthcare.
Harley Bull follows a young British man in an exploration of his history of drugs, mental health issues and how he learned to cope. A documentary on a true average male with a message to never lose hope.
At a time of ever increasing media access, anyone who wants to make a film should be able to make one. But for d/Deaf and disabled filmmakers Debopriya, Mijo and Anuja, this isn’t as straightforward. Each must negotiate with multiple barriers to articulate their creative vision. While documenting their stories, Shweta begins to reflect on lifelong creative collaborations with her disabled father, and a film about filmmaking emerges.