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Notes from the Interior
Ben Balcom, 2015, USA, 11’10 Mins
An experiment in melodrama and metaphysics. Wandering through the body, puzzling out a system of symbols. Inside and outside become muddled when the surface meets the skin.
Iris
Bea Macdonald, 2023, UK, 4’58 mins
Iris takes its name from the curtain shop on Deptford High Street, and also refers to the eye. This dual meaning becomes a motif for exploring moments of privacy and concealment alongside openness and exposure. As the camera drifts along the street, it captures unguarded fragments of daily life, where conversations reveal traces of dreams and intimacy.
Deepest Darkness, Flaming Sun
Ella Morton, 2020, Norway and Canada, 9’52 mins
A short experimental film about the Svalbard Archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. Narrated by wilderness guide Marte Agneberg Dahl, the film features altered Super 8mm film footage of the region. Marte speaks about her travels in the Arctic, climate change, walruses and the region’s history.
Foot to Ground
Christopher Thompson, 2024, USA, 9’00 mins
Foot to Ground examines the mythic origins of capital, the rise of Manhattan, and the reanimation of the modernist project within vertical realms of luxury residential space.
The title of the film is a play on the literal translation of pied-à-terre, ”foot on the ground”, which within the New York luxury market is a property that the owner uses only a few times a year. The popularity of the pied-à-terre amongst globalized wealth has birthed a new market of post-residential real estate in which empty apartments become luxury without desire –– space for capital by capital.
My Dear
Jorge Higgins, 2024, Chile, 4’38 mins
My Dear is a personal piece reflecting on the filmmakers first visit to Chile in 20 years.
Shot on a variety of Kodak Super 8, 200T and Tri-X.
Cherry Blossoms
Rennie Taylor, 2025, Canada, 2’20 mins
In the spirit of the fleeting moment, this dual-channel perspective choreographs a dance amid the chaotic ritual of cherry blossom viewing in Toronto’s High Park.
oi you dropped your bread!
Loann Hutchinson, 2025, UK, 1’54 mins
A short film which attempts to hijack reality within the CCTV surveillance format by introducing surrealist elements. What follows is an attempt to question and dismantle the authority of surveillance and its claim to uncensored truth within capitalistic societies. This draws attention to how mainstream media and the judicial system construct stories through photography/film based media, which are full of narrative gaps - these gaps being the voices of ordinary people.
Prayer Practice No.1
A. Piriyapokanon, 2024, USA, 1’05 mins
Candle wax and incense on 16mm single perforation clear film leader.