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2008
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Trail of the Spider
Trail of the Spider9.50 2008 HD
Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or...
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2009
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The Last Days of Jack Sheppard
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard1 2009 HD
Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the...
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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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1986
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The Dream Machine
The Dream Machine4.40 1986 HD
A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke...
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1995
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The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity6.40 1995 HD
A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.
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2002
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The Old Fools
The Old Fools1 2002 HD
A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.
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1997
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Body Projections
Body Projections1 1997 HD
Experimental art / moving image film by Tony Donoghue.
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2008
Movies
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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2022
Movies
Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time
Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time1 2022 HD
A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking...
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1996
Movies
Blight
Blight6.40 1996 HD
A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.
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2021
Movies
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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2016
Movies
Confessions to the Mirror
Confessions to the Mirror1 2016 HD
A sumptuous and passionate reimagining of Claude Cahun's life.
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1996
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Remember Me
Remember Me5.00 1996 HD
Remember Me is a dark, obsessive and emotive treatise on death. Its aim is to explore the intimate, personal and often secret relationships that...
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2023
Movies
Solitude
Solitude1 2023 HD
Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the...
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2021
Movies
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...
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1996
Movies
Gallivant
Gallivant7.22 1996 HD
Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with...
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1994
Movies
Home Suite
Home Suite1 1994 HD
Home Suite, Smith’s first video work, is a close-up journey through a domestic landscape and a journey through memory, containing only three...
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2020
Movies
Fabula
Fabula7.70 2020 HD
"Fabula" is an experimental film by Jordan Baseman that asks questions about our dreams and dream experiences during the coronavirus pandemic of...
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2018
Movies
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness1 2018 HD
Written more than 100 years ago, Heart of Darkness is a tale of lies and brutal greed and of the dark heart which beats within us all. Now re-sited...
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1995
Movies
Cedar Wood & Silk
Cedar Wood & Silk1 1995 HD
Differing opinions about fashion spark a vibrant, insightful exploration of the tender relationship between a Jamaican mother and her British-born...