2020 Festival

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Expedition Content is an augmented sound work that documents the encounter between the 1961 Harvard Peabody Expedition to West Papua and the Hubula people. Read More

Expedition Content: Livestream & Expanded Discussion

Thu 10 Sep, 19:00

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An evening of storytelling from four artists who engage with non-fiction in their practice. Each of the invited artists will respond to the theme of Horizons and share a story with our audience in 15 minutes. Read More

You Cannot Close Your Eyes to New Horizons: A Storytelling Session

Fri 11 Sep, 19:00

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Video essays have served a crucial role in the Black Lives Matter movement. Through their reappropriation of film and media to honor Black lives while critically examining such issues as racial violence, police brutality and systemic inequality, video essays serve as a format for Black visions and voices to be seen and heard. The Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist has collected these works... Read More

Seen and Heard: Selections from the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist

Sat 12 Sep, 19:00

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A masterfully intimate observational documentary depicting life inside a Tehran juvenile detention centre, where a group of teenage girls serve sentences for the murder of abusive male family members. Read More

Sunless Shadows + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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Unreliable narrators; dramatic reconstructions; testimony remade as myth. Voices summoned from the past are translated into new realities in this short film programme. Read More

Shorts: Absent Collaborators

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A dynamic, impressionistic city symphony capturing Nigerian city Ibadan’s distinct rhythms from a street-level perspective. Read More

Trouble Sleep + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A probing inquiry into the act—and art—of preserving and constructing history, Jessica Sarah Rinland’s mesmerising debut feature-length work intimately examines the process of museological and ecological conservation through the production of a lab-engineered replica of an elephant tusk. Read More

Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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- In the rainforests of southern Colombia, an imposing, unfinished concrete highway stretches out across the Amazonian tree line. Suspension presents a visually and intellectually rich study of grand scale human folly that makes clear the futility of attempting to conquer nature. Read More

Suspension + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A sect of martial arts champions have devoted the past two decades to their master and his religion, undergoing relentless physical training to prepare for the coming apocalypse. Read More

Faith + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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In the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, sections of its 3.5-metre edifice have been transplanted to the USA and repurposed as public monuments in sites across the country. Read More

The American Sector + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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A startlingly candid and at times darkly comic insight into the realities of political life in contemporary Palestine. Read More

Mayor + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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Two mid-length films exploring fraught ecologies and bodies of water. Read More

The Lake and The Lake / Land Underwater + Q&A

Sep 9 — Sep 12

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