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'i am only present' addresses the material foundations of immigration detention in the UK, casting Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in the leading role. Narrated by the building itself, the film takes the viewer to the overgrown outskirts of Gatwick Airport, where time stands still for 508 detainees. Here they are hidden in plain sight, only a few meters from one of europe's busiest runways.
"We Entered Through the Chimeline" explores folklore, using its strangeness to construct fictions and speculative futures that offer points of resistance to our present. The film focuses upon Ruth L. Tongue who was a folklorist and a self-proclaimed ‘chime child’. In her position as a chime child Ruth believed that she had the magical ability to collect songs that no one else could, leading many folklorists to read her work as fictional. The film draws from these unreliable narratives and amplifies their affective qualities to create new and wonky fictions that unfold throughout the film. The work is filmed on 16mm film and utilises film’s alchemical qualities. Light flares become moments of transformation that support the magical acts within the narrative.
Self shot in public using an iPhone, "Personal Shopping" follows Jewish Princess Becky's search for the perfect dress for her Bat Mitzvah. Parents Mervyn and Gaye try to manage the situation with the personal shopping assistant who has to deal with this grotesque drag family. This outlandish, improvised film shamelessly presents a queer version of a Jewish family from North West London.
A series of murders occur in a small town. One man documents the events.
Show One from RIPTIDE Wrestling's 'Bank Holiday Wrestling' on the 26th August 2019 at the Brighton Open Air Theatre.
A hip hop musical, shot in Dakar, using Senegalese musicians and artists, which deconstructs comprehensive threats to human rights posed by the rise of the algorithmic management of daily life via social media and online platforms.
Kokosmos is a purely visual, experimental piece inspired by space and our fascination with the unknown. A surreal fantasy, aimed to extend our perception of reality by letting us wonder over the existence of a higher being and our connection with her.
In Turkey, an MP, a former Police Commissioner, a right-wing assassin wanted by Interpol and a woman named Yenge are all involved in a car crash.
Mother Hanabi can be whatever he wants to be on the ballroom floor. A queen. A monster. A champion. We follow Hanabi as he gets ready to walk the floor at a kiki in the heart of the Parisian voguing scene and learn about his own journey on the way.
It’s been 10 years since Catfish and the Bottlemen uploaded to BBC Music Introducing and what a ten years it’s been. From throwing demos on stages, rocking up and performing wherever they saw a crowd to platinum sales and headlining festivals. Watch the band in conversation with Radio 1’s Jack Saunders as they share their top 10 moments so far.
Deep in the night, eight machines draw shapes into the soft ground, patterns and designs. Illuminated only by their own lights, they move in conjunction, at times as pairs, then in long lines, forming circles, figures of eight, loops. Based on traditional, regional alpine folkdances, the choreography presents the machines as both cumbersome and agile, creating a luminous dance inscribed in the snow.
‘The Memor’ is exploring the future of memory. Enter a memory archive containing replicas from Earth’s deep past through to its post-anthropocene future.
Alone in London, a teenager is made suddenly homeless. Vulnerable and desperate, he falls victim to a violent sexual assault which leaves him struggling with trauma and haunting nightmares as his life unravels.
Documentary short about a planned three floor underground structure.
Documentary short about Rotterdam housing project "Le Medi", formerly known as "Le Medina".
Contrasting artistic visions, misplaced confidence and blatant ignorance collide on the backdrop of an increasingly fragile and divided world. Two stubborn Scottish filmmakers struggle to make a short film together in the Austrian Alps.
Show Two from RIPTIDE Wrestling's 'Bank Holiday Wrestling' on the 26th August 2019 at the Brighton Open Air Theatre.
This beautiful short, commissioned by UCLan’s Creative Innovation Zone, is an intricate hand-drawn journey through the life of a local activist, George Dewhurst. An ordinary working man from Blackburn, George was charged with High Treason, shortly after The Peterloo Massacre in August 1819, for speaking at a gathering of workers in Burnley. Narrated by one of George's descendants, 8-year-old Monty Speed, this beautiful animated montage depicts events in George's life in the year 1819, following a quest by descendants to uncover his grave and raise awareness of his story.
A former professional boxer, tells us about the biggest battle he had to fight... Life.
A young boy is taken in from the streets and trained in martial arts. When his home is invaded and his sensei is taken, he must face his fears and become the hero he was always meant to be.
Based around verbatim testaments from real online incels, this short documentary takes an unbiased look at the 'incel' identity and their portrayal in mainstream media.
Irish photographer Tom Wood, affectionately known as "Photie Man" by the people of Liverpool, his adopted city, needs no introduction. He captured it in an almost obsessive manner from 1978 to 2001. His photographs are a tender chronicle of the daily life of the Scousers, from the market to the Anfield football stadium, through its nightclubs and the seaside resort of New Brighton. In front of Emmanuel Bonn's camera, the photographer revisits these places that continue to nourish his work. Back in his home in Wales, against a backdrop of classical music, Tom Wood invites us to dive into his archives and shares his vision of the medium, his life, and the projects that have marked it. A modest and touching portrait of whom Martin Parr calls the "unsung genius of British photography.”
Elderly woman seeks husband who wants to have his cake and eat it.
A short suspenseful horror film of the found footage genre, following two students through a media project turned sour after a mysterious book leads them to an unknown part of the country.
Directed by Michael Hughes.
"Being part of the Soviet Union changed the way people lived their lives. My grandmother's memoirs analyze the reasons why Palanga feels isolated and alone and its inhabitants blocked and lost."
Abandoned at birth. Imprisoned as a teen. On the run as an adult. After receiving compensation from the Irish government, Catherine Dennehy is finally ready to share the secret that she kept for over 60 years. Talking openly for the first time about her young life, she reveals poignant memories from the years she spent in an Irish home.
What Is Happiness: a Poem is a British Sign Language poem on the question, ‘What is happiness?’ It shines a light on some of the elements of that impossible question and showcases the positive representation of BSL poetry as an art form.
When you’ve been dreaming of the past for so long, what do you do when she’s finally there? Agnes meets her ex, Anna, for the first time since their break up and needs to decide whether to stay stuck in the past or move on to the new.
Enset, which is related to the banana plant, is very drought resistant and a good source of carbohydrates (in the stem and underground bulb). Enset has been farmed from time immemorial in the Gamo Highlands of southern Ethiopia, where women are the main cultivators. The film focuses on Aiye, the filmmaker's grandmother, who shares her knowledge about the enset plant, and shows how it is possible to produce good organic food by using simple farming tools and natural fertilizers. We see how she and a young kinswoman cultivate (using animal dung and organic waste to fertilize the plants), propagate (generating suckers from the corm), harvest (digging up the plant) and process (scraping and fermentating) the enset, and finally produce a variety of nutritious dishes.
De Quervain's Story is a collection of memories and images, (...) In this short film I document some of the objects for massages, cremes, mattress, tablets, food supplements, exercises I used to heal. It has been filmed with a Bolex 8mm, on Fomapan film, home developed by myself with the Caffenol developer, using the Adrian Cousins' formula.
A group of different people are asked to defend their citizenship and right to reside in the UK. What rights do we all really have?
Growing up with a disabled brother and passionate about dance, Rashmi Becker set up Step Change Studios to address the lack of opportunities for disabled people to dance. This film tells the inspiring story of how she came to establish this ground-breaking studio, which in its first year supported over 1,000 people to dance.
Flower and The Girl is an animated short film that tells the story of a little shadow girl learning to become real.
Billy struggles with life as a pushover
A runaway teen struggles to reconnect with his isolated younger brother, who is working on an impossible project after the death of their abusive father.
Levi discovers a watch that can send him through time. A threat soon emerges as he comes across his past self.
A man prepares a recipe for a very special guest...
In our over-technologised age, how can we capture our identity and our essential humanity to make clear to each other who we are? With a moving camera reminiscent of nostalgic home videos, Josiane Pozi answers this question by filming herself and her family. Everyday reality in a digital world is captured in an abstract and fragmentary way. The banal is elevated into something weighty and valuable, with intimate living room moments as a response to the stereotypical representations of the black female body in traditional imagery. Pozi paints a sometimes uncomfortable and rather unflattering picture of herself and her mother, zooming in on family relationships, annoyances, fun and caring for each other.
John Hegley's poetry animated.
Inspired by true events, based on the before and after events of a shooting; a lesbian couple fall into a dark wonderland of hate when they come to the terms with what they must do to become infamous.
Ten years of self portraits, one drawn every day since 2008 in small sketch books. Set to music by Philip Glass.
Set in a timespace where past meets speculative future, Colonel Pike encounters animal-human hybrids in a shingle interzone. He observes their bioculture - a process of freedom and 'non-identity'. Paralysed by naivety, Pike becomes the subject of perverse ritual.
A one take shot reciting Philippians 2:1-11
Two young offenders meet at community service.
"How long is a long time?" "Stromboli: Interview with a Volcano" is a conversation with the youngest member of the Aeolian family Stromboli (one of eight volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily), the lighthouse of the Mediterranean. Spagnuolo asks questions to the volcano and the eruptions answer. In the artist’s own words: "I slept at the top of the volcano and fell asleep to the sound of it erupting, whispering pillow talk. In the morning I went and made the film, asking questions without the need for an answer. When I arrived back at the beach at lunch time I swam in the sea and napped on the black sand. My mind unfolded in the most fluid way for a long time. This film attempts to convey the feeling." The film is partof the project Volcano & Regret.
Toby Tatum's "The Garden" opens a window onto a realm of enchantment. Here wraiths flicker on moss-bearded rocks, rain washes the spoor-filled air and metamorphic flowers glow with supernatural potency. In this place beyond the screen time languidly dilates, returning us to new rhythms. Here priorities of scale shift, allowing the microcosmic world of small things to assume larger proportions. As darkness descends a surging aurora of prismatic colour arises, dancing on the threshold between worlds.
ЮНАК [juˈnʌk] is a word often used in the Bulgarian folklore to describe a brave and intrepid youth. This work depicts a series of “unnecessary memories” from the director’s childhood. Reminiscences, not related to a significant event, unnecessarily stored in his mind. All shots in the film are abstract depictions of the director’s personal “unnecessary memories”.
This experimental screen test for an adaptation of the industrial-era ballet Giselle has been reimagined as an ecofeminist thriller. Weaving together digital footage, 16mm, VHS recordings, animation and deep AI, the screen test is a proposal for a hybridised world in a near future where multiple realities push to the surface.
In a gloomy city square, a talented artist struggles to make a living through his chalk drawings. He finds himself unable to captivate the bustling businessmen and women around him, who barely give him or his work a passing glance. With no money coming in, his motivation to pursue his passion begins to dwindle, until he forms an unlikely friendship with a pigeon who appears inspired by his work.
Satirical animated short showing the construction of a 3D model of the UK based on online comments.
An immigrant story of Marietta Veulens, a composer who has spent 20 years trying to complete her lifeworks and album. Torn between her native Cuba and the UK, Veulens returns to her hometown of Matanzas to perform music live for the first time, and complete the journey to finding her true voice.
The funniest thing happened to me the other day...
Images reflecting on a solitary life in a Swedish apartment. In old age, a woman confronts her feelings towards the man she used to live with, but whom is no longer around.
A forest hermit tries to prepare for a flood, but he becomes distracted by his noisy neighbour.
A documentary which depicts Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers at their most personal, featuring unseen footage shot during the band's 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' campaign and tour.
Michelle, a trans woman who started transitioning later in her life, finds in faith the strength to welcome her true self.