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Ethnoresidue is a video work made for Tramway TV that weaves textual and visual threads around an existing conversation with Kaur’s maternal grandmother that formed part of her book Be Like Teflon, 2019. Grounding itself in Pollokshields, Glasgow, a site of family and the cities south asian community, Kaur expands on the complexities and intimacies of identity, belonging, reckoning with histories and their entanglement in colonial structures that persist.
Iconoclast Candela Capitán re-releases her transgressive dance piece for The 1975’s banned visualizer
The Vision Machine was filmed at the factory of SIGMA Corporation, a renowned global brand of lenses for photography and cinema production. Like most such manufacturers, it is based in Japan. Using lenses manufactured by the factory, Young filmed their female employees as they performed their usual tasks on the production, assembly and testing process. No men are featured, and while the piece alludes to the genres of documentary or corporate video, it was filmed and edited to suggest a speculative fiction: a lensmaking factory run (and perhaps owned) by women.
Isaac dreams of pigs encircling. He departs the security of his home town and voyages beyond the realms of dreams to an underbelly of stone magic, rogues, pirates, sea monsters, storms and the occult.
An English-style garden, a plot of earth in New York’s Central Park, a garden and a cemetery in Maastricht: Plantarians asks, 'what does it mean to have a garden?' Divided into episodes, the film studies the capacity of garden plants to respond to the particularities of their surroundings; at the same time, it tracks the lives of the contemporary men and women who cultivate, enjoy, eat, obsess over, and even grieve with and for these plants.
“The Landscape is a film on moving, being held and being placed in places and in between places. There is no explanation on the story behind it. There is no deeper thought or symbolism behind it. Like driving, listening to the music and looking at the landscape. All passes by”. – KG
It is here, on this connected Earth, that we re-discovered peace. A youthful Gaia recounts the struggle and determination that made this possible.
Avant Kinema’s Flow State is inspired by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi’s theories of flow, and takes full enjoyment in the process of scratching, animating and hand-processing Super8 film partnered with an improvised soundtrack of guitars and percussion. In this immersive trip, process is key.
A working iteration of the project "business as usual : hostile environment". Originally co-commissioned with Glasgow Sculpture Studios as part of Event Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, the project was conceived to explore Glasgow’s Forth and Clyde Canal as both a literal and poetic route through which to reflect on the role of waterways in the voluntary and involuntary movement of people. Reworking aspects of the new film at speed and in light of the Covid-19 outbreak, Whittle powerfully incorporates archival footage relating to the UK’s Windrush scandal as well as material highlighting the role of immigrants in the NHS as they tackle the virus, foregrounding how political and ecological climates intersect and shape one another.
In a homage to The Deer Hunter, a war veteran in 1980's Yorkshire is plagued by the torture he suffered fighting in Japan.
Live from Download UK 2019
The Maya Biosphere Reserve is the largest rainforest north of the Amazon and was once the heart of the Maya civilization. Amanda Ruggeri explores the new technology that is allowing archaeologists to explore the hundreds of structures still hidden beneath the jungle.
Xam is a sci-fi exploration on the future of surveillance and body hacking.
"Night Song" is a wall-based installation that includes a video collage incorporating stop motion animation and hand painted video stills. It explores ideas behind the theme of insomnia. Filmed after dark, the multiple layering of images and sound draws the viewer into the unsettling emotional world of the insomniac. The soundtrack is made from recordings of a beautiful dawn chorus that has been slowed down and reversed to create a wakeful nightmarish lullaby. The hand painted video stills create a further dimension, taking the painterly process in the film making off the screen, back on to paper and reworked using oil paint.
Diamond Frances’s daughter has a rare chromosomal deletion. She is without speech, is on the autistic spectrum and has severe learning disability. These aspects of her life clearly have a big influence on Frances’s life, which is why her artistic practise often deals with issues about her daughter. The video is called "Deletion," and is about the fact that some of her daughter’s chromosomes have gone missing when she was created, and the impact this has on her life.
Five Days To Say Goodbye is based on final conversations that a grieving mother has with her son before she says goodbye to him for the very last time. Set over the five day period leading up to his funeral , she shares with him her love, reminiscences of his childhood, her thoughts on his death and life for herself after his burial. It is written and acted by Beverley Bishop, who tragically lost her son to suicide in October 2018. This is a story of a mother’s love and grief that is thought provoking, poignant and honest.
London's housing is under attack. We're Still Here was filmed over four years as developers - hand in glove with councils and housing associations - knock down estates to build housing that ordinary people can't afford. But from young mums and key workers in east London to the neighbours of the Grenfell Tower fire victims the fightback has begun.
Summer Solstice at Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, a location central to the spiritual and mythological landscape of England. Shot in 2019, a year in which national divides were embellished by populist rhetoric surrounding the country’s exit from the EU, the film acts as an alternative catalyst to reflect on dialogues surrounding English nationalism, identity and Romanticism.
Annette Philo brings us to the Scottish landscape and its associated dream-like mystique. With gentle overlays, vivid purples and blues, and alluding to the hidden graves of the last of the Knights Templar, Philo’s depiction of bluebell island lulls us into a contemplation on the duality of what we see for ourselves, and what is cultivated as cultural, historical and national identity.
Power Grab by Nicola Singh and Helen Collard focuses on the interplay of bodies in opposition and harmony.
In Photograph Jessie Growden takes her personal photograph collection and methodically destroys it by shredding, deselecting through a systematic process, accompanied by heartfelt singing.
the psychotic killer owl goes on a rampage and wreaks havoc on the lives of two young innocents.
Forecasting a layered sci-fi narrative, imagining a future world where technology has moved beyond the control of humans and operates as a distant but authoritarian force.
The Marma are a minority indigenous people living in the Hill Tracts of the Bangladesh/Myanmar border. Ruled over by an increasingly symbolic monarchy, as well as the Bangladeshi state, they are battling to protect their identity, culture and territory in the face of mass climate migration onto their ancestral lands. To Be a Marma portrays how different figures try to do this through religion, music and land ownership. It was made as part of producer/academic Farhana Hoque's long term collaboration with the community.
Less-than-perfect moments from some of the nation's favourite shows over the years. From the black and white days of the 1960s and Dixon of Dock Green, to the 1970s and The Generation Game, right through the 80s, 90s and 00s to the present day.
This film introduces three new bear families to the Goldilocks tale. The panda baby bear has two Mums, the polar baby bear has two Dads and the brown baby bear has a Mum and a Dad.
Rayhan is a student who had his life together in Afghanistan but then lost his family in an attack. This made him flee to London to have a better life. Here, he faces a lot of hardships where he begins to learn the true meaning of life.
Precision work at an altitude of 3,000 meters. A unique construction is being built on the Zugspitze - Germany's highest Mountain. With a total distance of 4.5 kilometers, the suspension railway being built there is not only the highest, but also the longest cable car in the world. But that's not all: it drives over a single support that sets another record at 127 meters. How does the alpine climate influence working conditions? Our documentation takes a look behind the scenes of the cable car construction site and accompanies the creation of the impressive structure.
This non-story driven film focuses on 5 unique cats, who behave in their own little world. Each of the cats has a story to tell. For instance, one of them can be sweet and the other pretty odd-looking or can be completely chaotic!
A young performer battles with her individuality on stage as she struggles to find support in pursuit of her dream career. The short film follows the life of Emma, a promising dancer who is enjoying her new-found professional career on stage. This dream is short lived as her family fail to understand the legitimacy of her achievements and eventually push her to her limits.
Inspired by atmospheric adventure games such as Myst, and a poem by Édouard Glissant of the same name, this is a short film which starts with the desire to undo pain and constriction by finding 'negative islands' from which the world might be unmade. Nisha Ramayya plays 'S', who circles between lime kiln tunnels, observation decks high above a future city, and the London clubbing scene, trying to find a re-beginning, or a good way through this field of islands and into a world beyond.
A supertall barrier wall splits the arid wastes of Mars. In the ultimate exoplanetary power flex artist Thompson has exploited mapping data systems to lay claim to an area of Mars and erect a border around her territory. You are not a citizen. The wall now defines your journey. The excluded viewer must navigate along the exterior of this undocumented artefact, phasing through alien landscapes of cobalt dust dunes and plunging chasms in the remote anticipation of access.
"July Days" is a mixed media installation / moving image work that revolves around a single, blurry image taken around 1917. Purportedly representing the Red Army carrying Malevich’s ‘Black Square’, the photo allows for varying narratives, interpretations and hopes. Mingling archival footage with digital renders, "July Days" brings together a chorus of voices that explore what such a photo can represent in an age of fake news and virality. In the process, "July Days" invites its viewers along a hopeful and intimate reading of (art) history that celebrates the potential of radical imagination.
A film poem in which human consciousness intertwines with the element of water. It visualises the eternal clash between the urge to look back and the awareness of space and time ahead. The film resists a closed life narrative by negating a reductive assessment of one’s history.
Music video by Taisia Deeva for Dynoro.
Music video by Ben G. Brown for Harry Hanson.
Directed by Jennifer Paterson, Lewis Gourlay & Abby Warrilow.
The incredible story of Oli, a young British man with Asperger's, who overnight discovers he has 25 brothers and sisters, all from the same American sperm donor.
An autobiographical poetical story reflecting on the city and myself through 3 emotional chapters: excitement, frustration and hope.
Just one year after their first ever gig in a well known Lewis pub, Peat & Diesel sold out the iconic Glasgow Barrowlands. Follow the band through this musical documentation of one of their biggest gigs yet, which sees them play classics from their albums Uptown Fank and Light my Byre, including the Western Isles anthem that catapulted them to fame.
An elderly couple and their experience with dementia; one living with the condition and the other witnessing its effects and learning how to accept it.
Developed from research into early Japanese autopsies, particularly the striking water colours of Aoki Shukuya. The abstract, celebratory depiction of the human figure and its place within physical space forms the basis of this animation.
"Okay, let’s talk about trees. Why are you so obsessed with them?" asks Akingbade, the filmmaker, of young artist Rafiki, whose artistic practice focuses on trees: their individuality and presence.
Dedicated to Bruce Baillie and Hollis Frampton.
The European Goldfinch is a wild bird which from early times has been admired, captured and caged for its beauty. That was also true of Amsterdam and Delft in 1654 when Carel Fabritius, a pupil of Rembrant, known for his experimentation with perspective and light, made his now famous painting 'The Goldfinch'. Today in the UK the wild Goldfinch can still be seen in captivity in small backyard aviaries or as dead specimens represented in Natural History Museums.
Fire Kills public information film. This film aims to raise awareness of everyday fire risks that are present in the home and encourage all householders in England to test their smoke alarms regularly.
A found-footage short inspired by interrupting trains of thought and the duality of colour.
A behind-the-scenes look at the fast food chain in the run-up to Christmas, as a brand new festive burger is launched in a bid to keep customers coming back during the pandemic.
The story of how Britain's fastest-growing food delivery company has revolutionized the takeaway industry and how they and their partners are navigating the Covid-19 pandemic.
In 2020, love lives across the UK were transformed by Covid. This intimate film celebrates the love, from the estranged couple reunited in lockdown to a couple who isolate together after just one date.
A portrait of the devoted electric dance community Club Zodiac. Void of judgement and the public eye, the club holds it's exotic galas inside virtual reality app VRChat using full body tracking technology.
Weight is a post-apocalyptic short film covering the year long journey of a drifter, Adam, surviving after the collapse of society in the United Kingdom. He stays alive by following instructions left to him by his father who raised him during the collapse.
now i close my eyes the world i see is so beautiful samples lines from Taiwanese New Wave film Yi Yi, in which a young girl speaks to the ghost of her grandmother. These intergenerational whisperings inspire April Lin to follow their own adventures with their grandfather, pondering how ancestors and descendants create bridges across time, and if you’re diasporic – across global space.
After a lifetime of feeling fat, a young man realises that maybe his issues with his body aren’t actually about his body at all. This short, biographical mini-documentary is a tiny story about the big problem of not opening up, the pressure we put ourselves under, and learning to be kind to ourselves.
The work is constructed from shots of tidal seawater running over rippled sand and the blister pack for Amlodipine, a blood-pressure reducing drug.
These bodies make every camper's heart beat faster: Individually designed and extravagantly furnished long-distance motorhomes are the latest craze on the caravan market - at least for those amateur campers who can afford the unusual models. The off-road companions and rolling luxury suites have no upper price limits. Who are the owners of the most expensive caravans in Germany, and what about the hoods of their rolling homes?
In the German Allgäu, the gigantic Center Parcs Allgäu holiday park was built on an area of 184 hectares. Around 5,000 guests can spend their vacation there in a thousand holiday homes. But it was a long way to go before the plant at the foot of the Alps opened: 1,100 construction workers, plumbers and technicians toiled to get it completed on time. In the end, the roof of a giant slide was missing and the TÜV checked the park attractions. In our documentation we have accompanied the construction workers in the last few days during the completion of the holiday park
Higher, stronger, more robust: crane builders outperform with superlatives. Loads are getting heavier and have to be lifted to hard-to-reach places. One of the largest crane companies in Germany is the Knaack Krane company in Hamburg. The company currently has around 60 different cranes in stock, the largest of which can lift up to 750 tons. It is a long way through planning and assembly until the machine is used for the first time - the report accompanies the creation of a mega crane.
Joe has a nightmare experience as he struggles to write his exam paper. Will he be able to finish his paper on time? Or will his nightmare last forever…
After developing a poem at the height of the lockdown on a dystopian journey through the streets of North London to the tranquil relief of the Park. The poem, illustrated with the occasional image, reflects the range of emotions many people have gone through in these difficult times.