Movies: Film London Artists Moving Image Network

  • 2008
    Trail of the Spider

    Trail of the Spider (2008)

    Trail of the Spider

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    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 Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s p...

    Trail of the Spider
  • 2013
    Perestroika: Reconstructed

    Perestroika: Reconstructed (2013)

    Perestroika: Reconstructed

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    Re-mixes and extends Perestroika (2009) into two sequences. Sequence one constritutes the 2009 version, while the second sequence constructs a new framing narrative that reinterprets and reconfigures both the imagery and the experience of the first....

    Perestroika: Reconstructed
  • 2009
    Perestroika

    Perestroika (2009)

    Perestroika

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    Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, shot first in 1987-8 and then again in 2007-8. The re-enactment of the journey is a ...

    Perestroika
  • 2017
    More Utopias Now!

    More Utopias Now! (2017)

    More Utopias Now!

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    2016 marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia. His pioneering account of an ideal society (the original meaning of the word utopia being both no-lace and good-place) set the template for numerous literary, artistic and filmic speculations ...

    More Utopias Now!
  • 2024
    Rain, Rain, Go Away

    Rain, Rain, Go Away (2024)

    Rain, Rain, Go Away

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    At home in the north of England, an old woman tunes into the radio. As rain drips into the house, dark manifestations appear in her mind....

    Rain, Rain, Go Away
  • 2023
    Cabbage

    Cabbage (2023)

    Cabbage

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    An intimate work made in collaboration with the filmmaker’s family, Cabbage re-frames language and explores personal agency within an ableist paradigm. It centralises her brothers' digital and rhythmic writings using eye tracking technology, and her ...

    Cabbage
  • 2015
    MyAlbum : A Rough-Demo Video

    MyAlbum : A Rough-Demo Video (2015)

    MyAlbum : A Rough-Demo Video

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    ‘My Album’ is a record of all the events in Leckey's life during the twentieth century that he feels were significant. It is a memoir from 1954 until 1999....

    MyAlbum : A Rough-Demo Video