The Toxic Camera

by Jane and Louise Wilson

by Marine Hugonnier, LAFVA 2007

Shot on the river Niger, close to the city of Niamey, this film features Damoure Zika and Moussa Hamidou, who were Jean Rouch's principle actor and sound engineer, respectively.

The film is set during 'Cinema day', a day during which people in Niamey could see as much films as they want with only one ticket. This day also coincides with an unofficial 'Holley' ceremony, an animist Songhay

Read moreabout Secretary of the Invisible

by Emily Wardill, FLAMIN Productions

Based on the life of Sarah Winchester and the Winchester Mystery House, Fulll Firearms presents the story of Imelda, a woman haunted by the victims of the guns sold in her father's company. She uses her inheritance to work with an architect who builds a house for these ghosts. When a group of people squat her half finished building Imelda is convinced that they are the ghosts

Read Moreabout Fulll Firearms

by Anja Kirschner and David Panos, FLAMIN Productions

The Empty Plan examines the political and aesthetic dimensions of the work of Bertolt Brecht and the relationship between theory and practice, art and revolution.

Read Moreabout The Empty Plan

Two Years at Sea

by Ben Rivers, FLAMIN Productions

Two Years at Sea (2011) is Rivers' first feature length project and takes as its subject Jake, a man who lives in isolation in the middle of the forest in remote Scotland. The film documents Jake's solitary existence, capturing moments of profound beauty as he builds a raft to spend time sitting in a loch and sleeps in a caravan that floats up a tree.

by Roz Mortimer, Random Acts

Years of genetic selection have created The American Bucking Bull, an elite breed designed solely for their athletic prowess and desire to buck. The actions of bull and cowboy are cut to the rhythm of the Star Spangled Banner creating a subtle subversion of the concept of the American hero.

Read Moreabout A Cowboy Invited me to Watch Him Bull Ride

The Necromancers

by Lindsay Seers, Jarman Award 3 Minute Wonders Commission

Theatre director Steve Pearl talks about his chance meetings with Seers' auntie Barbara, a female ventriloquist, and her Uncle Patrick, a stage performer with alternative personas, and explains their influence on Seers' subsequent deployment of ventriloquism and theatrical performance in her work.

by Hannah Collins, LAFVA 2006

Current History explores the present unique and transitional period of events in the lives of villagers of Beshencevo in central Russia.

Read moreabout Current History

Ah, Liberty!

by Ben Rivers, LAFVA 2007

A family’s place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, but is undercut with a sense of foreboding. There’s no particular story; beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived, rituals performed.

Derek

by Isaac Julien

Derek was supported by Film London, More4 and marked the inaugural year of the Jarman Award.

by Rachel Reupke

Formally based on the production of royalty-free stock footage, 10 Seconds or Greater maps the logical progression of a director through a check list of popular scenarios designed to illustrate such commercially lucrative concepts as ‘communication’, ‘relaxation’ and ‘healthy life-style’.

Read moreabout 10 Seconds or Greater