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2013
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Magic Mirror
Magic Mirror1 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
Tin1 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 Broken1 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 Mouse1 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 Telephone1 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 Vibes1 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 Bikini1 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
Celebrashan1 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 Mist10.00 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 2002-20051 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, 2006-20071 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 Only1 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
Dungeness1 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
Regression1 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
Ouvertures5.00 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 Sahara10.00 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 Fish1 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 Restriction6.00 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 Hans1 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 21 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...