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Geordie classic Purely Belter back 25 years on with new film and all star cameos Lovers of the original Purely Belter film will want to waste no time in watching a new short from some of its stars
A boy living in constant black and white finds a coloured flower whilst embarking on his walk. Upon picking the flower, his world gains diversity and colour, but how long will this phenomenon last?
REASON IS THE ROOT, THROUGH WHICH THE RESONANT WORD FLOURISHES. Daniel is a normal student until he gets hit by a volleyball, hallucinates, and attempts to take over the school.
A camera moves through the architecture of the renowned private art school, California Institute of the Arts, while a man touches up paint on the neglected exterior. Somewhere inside, the upper administration drafts increasingly dire emails to send to its faculty and staff.
A silent psychological mystery set in the Whitgift Shopping Centre, Croydon. The film was shot on B&W Reversal Super 8 and was first exhibited as part of a group show at Conditions Studio Programme.
In a dense, opaque city, a man walks at a distance, cut off from the world. He collects fragments, post-its that he keeps without really knowing why. This absurd system becomes a method, an attempt to fit into the world.
A phenomenon captured in the park, days after the death of a friend.
Illusion is a stop-motion video about a person at a historical turning point, facing conscription and choosing flight over participation in war. Built from the artist’s analogue/digital photo archive, printed on transparent film and re-scanned as layered assemblages, the film crosses calm landscapes that conceal buried violence, asking what land remembers—and whether escape is chosen.
A group of young women in Amsterdam navigate the thin line between desire and fear. They wield their sexuality with confidence, yet their world brims with tension, caught between watching and being watched. Heaven Will Wait blurs the boundaries between documentary and fiction to explore the paradoxes of female sexuality. What remains of autonomy when the gaze of others starts to live inside you?
How to carry life inside you while surrounded by the threats of death? In blockaded Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), a pregnant mother carries both hope and fear, as war, hunger, and deprivation threaten the fragile life within her.
A documentary experiment exploring what people are willing to do for money and a better life and how things can go completely off the rails
In a prestigous celebrity high school, a group of lonely souls search for love. But will everybody get a happy ending?
An animal sheds its skin.
After going through a painful period, ceramicist Heloisa Guedes underwent a transformation that came from the inside out. She left behind the hectic pace of the city for a new life in São Luiz do Paraitinga, in search of a reconnection with her own needs. Little by little, she began to live in alignment with what felt meaningful to her: self-care, artistic expression and being close to nature.
Collage of siphonophores and the apparatus of war.
