Waving Back
An eclectic compilation of experimental short films, each communicating a sense of threat. The artists share a fascination for looming violence, inviting us to reflect on the return of the repressed, in both nature and human history.
In this combined programme
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Day and Night
A hypnotising exploration of polarities: stillness and motion, 2D and 3D, positive and negative, colour and black-and-white, day and night.
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The Green Wave
Consciousness reflects on the subconscious, the latter often represented by an ocean. Jacobs plays with our perception of a tidal pool, in a maelst
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The Rodeo Trilogy
The Mayberry Practice Calf, Second Place and The Wooden Calf are three silent shorts about the practice and patience that lead to great performance
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Night Hunter
This eerie, allegorical homage to silent film star Lillian Gish is composed of approximately 4,000 handmade collages.
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Village, Silenced
Focus in this short remake is on how sound is used as a means of social control, and the larger historical implications of repetition.
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Conference (Notes on Film 05)
The face of fascism? This grotesque found-footage film combines close-ups of 65 actors playing Adolf Hitler in films made between 1940 and today.
Goose Weather
A visual oddity: a George Harrison album cover is explored as a visual counterpoint to a choral rendition of the text English Eccentrics.
Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04)
A director’s fascination for Chaplin’s acting style, takes on the look of an explosive pop promo here.
Maurice
Maurice, the semi-sophisticated owner of a porn cinema in Paris, sheds his skin and becomes a die-hard cinephile, who must take leave of his doomed
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