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HUNGER | 8.47mins | 2023

Natalie Spencer

La signora Aetna, (Etna), is bored and boredom can be a dangerous thing for those around you when you are a volcanic goddess.

An elderly woman shares her life lessons as she reflects on the passage of time. It soon becomes clear, however, that things are not quite as they seem when our enigmatic protagonist invites us to watch in on one of her favourite games, involving an innocent local girl and a new tourist to town. A dreamlike montage of events from that fateful day ensues as we are transported to the mystical realm of Etna, where the law of nature is sovereign, and the humans merely pawns in the ancient goddess’ game to satisfy her boredom, and hunger.

HUNGER was filmed on location in Sicily, shot on Super8 and is interlaced with repurposed archive footage.

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THE RIDGEWAY | 7.37mins | 2023

Ollie Cameron

A film documenting a journey down the oldest road in Britain questions our layered relationship with landscape, tackling themes of heritage, unseen borders and memory.

The indelible imprint we leave on the landscape and the imprint the landscape leaves on us is a universal part of being human. At a time where we are becoming increasingly disconnected from the world around us, finding alternative ways of viewing heritage and re-mapping our relationship with the landscape is arguably more important than ever.

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BLUE HOUR | 14.35mins | 2023 

Simone Einfalt

Do you want to come on an adventure with me?

- What adventure?

A precious old memory leads quiet Johnny on an expressive journey across the heartland of Dartmoor to discover a mysterious phenomenon called the Blue Hour. 

Fragments of a folk tune accompany him as he starts a reenacted exploration of ancient paths, and secret letterboxing sites, winding through the gnarly oaks of Wistman’s Wood. Within the wild domain's myriad of primal textures and intricate sounds, Johnny gradually eases into a series of volatile flashbacks, doubting the existence of the "place where time stands still and all your worries disappear." A story of roaming freely, the momentariness of time, and a son's boundless love for his mother.

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MARVAN AND KHALIL | 10.21mins | 2021

Leila Gamaz

Marwan and Khalil is compiled VHS footage that was shot by Leila's Dad and Uncle on their land in the Sahara desert, and in their home village. She wrote the accompanying piece, compiling stories and myths from her family and Algeria. It was also inspired by her great-grandmother who kept alive a rich tradition of North African storytelling. The desert has always held a mythical place in her family’s consciousness - despite owning land there, there have been many periods in their lives when it’s been inaccessible to them due to colonial occupation and war. It became something they could dream about. In the same way that her family used the power of dreams to manifest apples in the desert, Leila used them to conjure this film.

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MOMENT IN A MINOR FAMILIAR (Schubert Tape) | 5.30mins | 2010

Holly Antrum

Cutting the footage carefully and often quickly around the filmed images of a home, ‘Movement in a minor Familiar (Schubert Tape)’, takes an intuitive stance to translation and meaning, stillness and movement, by drawing upon ideas of musicality and rhythm that are expressed within the texture of a voice – and it’s animating qualities in breaths and consonants.

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LARKSONG | 19.25mins | 2023

Nick Jordan & Jacob Cartwright

Larksong is an exploratory documentary centred on an historic nonconformist chapel located at the edge of the Pennine moors in Northern England. With the chapel as a central leitmotif, the film captures the surrounding ecology and distinctive landscape of cloughs, rivers and woodlands, laced with the remnants and imprints of the textile workers, mills and industries that shaped the environment.

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ENTRY | 17.12mins | 2023

Anna Heinrich & Leon Palmer

Entry is a single channel 4K film installation created in response to the site Brandy Row, a group of tumbledown Tudor cottages overlooking the south coast of England at Chiswell on the Isle of Portland. Built from local stone, these cottages have undergone various structural configurations throughout their history, shaped as much by the powerful forces of nature as by the hands of humans. Early photographs depict a building that is quite different to the one that you can see today, yet throughout time the doorway known as ‘Entry’ has remained a constant threshold to the ebb and flow of community life and the elements.

Working with local company 4DSurveying, we sought to capture a version of the building and its immediate surroundings, at this moment in time, using 3D laser technology to create a ‘digital twin’ of the site. The results are ghost-like, ephemeral images, layers of visual information like huge futuristic 3D engravings that appear to tie the past and present together. We combined this point cloud data, along with photogrammetry of a mirror, local stone and other artefacts, archival imagery and time-lapse footage to create a journey through the site, that looks to the past but also imagines its future in the context of deep geological time.

Commissioned by b-side for the b-side multi-media festival 2023

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