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  • 2013
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    Magic Mirror

    Magic Mirror

    1 2013 HD

    Magic Mirror combines a re-staging of the French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun’s black and white photographs with selected extracts from her...

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  • 2015
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    Tin

    Tin

    1 2015 HD

    Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the...

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  • 2019
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    This Camera is Broken

    This Camera is Broken

    1 2019 HD

    An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her...

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  • 2014
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    Merzschmerz: Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse

    Merzschmerz: Once Upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse

    1 2014 HD

    Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or...

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  • 2021
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    The Birth of the Telephone

    The Birth of the Telephone

    1 2021 HD

    Originating from footage of Thomas Watson relating the conception of the telephone, Birth of the Telephone distorts and challenges the simplicity of...

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  • 1996
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    Bristol Vibes

    Bristol Vibes

    1 1996 HD

    Documentary covering 24 hours in the life of Bristol, particularly focusing on the range of musical variety driven by its Afro-Caribbean inhabitants.

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  • 1995
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    Hermaphrodite Bikini

    Hermaphrodite Bikini

    1 1995 HD

    Director Clio Barnard, using Harry and Paintbox techniques, intercut with a Hi-8 video diary, presents a non-narrative collage addressing sexual...

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  • 1995
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    Celebrashan

    Celebrashan

    1 1995 HD

    Short documentary film about the influence of African oral tradition, poetry, dance and drumming on popular musical forms such as rap, hip-hop and...

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  • 2008
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    Cobra Mist

    Cobra Mist

    10.00 2008 HD

    Construed in the time of running clouds, a panoramic and another examination of vacant buildings on the British shore (Orford Ness), a deserted place...

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  • 2006
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    The J. Street Project 2002-2005

    The J. Street Project 2002-2005

    1 2006 HD

    The J. Street Project 2002–5 is a sixty-seven minute film that consists of a sequence of static camera shots of street signs in Germany that...

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  • 2007
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    The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007

    The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007

    1 2007 HD

    The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain...

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  • 2009
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    For Cultural Purposes Only

    For Cultural Purposes Only

    1 2009 HD

    The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege...

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  • 1987
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    Dungeness

    Dungeness

    1 1987 HD

    ‘Dungeness’ was originally made for ‘Dungeness: The Desert in the Garden’, a multi-media theatre production directed by...

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  • 1999
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    Regression

    Regression

    1 1999 HD

    A portrait of the artist as a not so young man. The film-maker attempts to enter the digital age by making a new video version of his 1978 film 7P.

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  • 2019
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    Ouvertures

    Ouvertures

    5.00 2019 HD

    Reflecting on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture, Ouvertures follows a collective’s process of translating...

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  • 1988
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    Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

    Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

    10.00 1988 HD

    In the fall of 1987, Philippe Haas accompanied the sculptor Richard Long to the Algerian Sahara and filmed him tracing with his feet, or constructing...

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  • 2014
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    Merzschmerz: The Flying Fish

    Merzschmerz: The Flying Fish

    1 2014 HD

    Fairy tales are handed down from mothers to daughters, and from fathers to sons. As they are passed on, the tales grow in the telling – or...

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  • 1994
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    End of Restriction

    End of Restriction

    6.00 1994 HD

    End of Restriction enters into the claustrophobic world of a teenage boy growing up in an English village. The film follows the boy’s cycle...

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  • 2014
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    Merzschmerz: Lucky Hans

    Merzschmerz: Lucky Hans

    1 2014 HD

    Alluding to one of Schwitters' lesser-known faces, as the author of playfully absurdist children's tales, Andrea Luka Zimmerman's Merzschmerz is a...

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  • 2021
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    Relic 2

    Relic 2

    1 2021 HD

    The third film in the series, ‘Relic 2’ forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong, which...

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