STST Film Club X Dream Sequence #3
Thursday, Jul 3, 2025 · 7 - 9.30pm GMT
Staffordshire St
49 Staffordshire St London SE15 5TJ
Dream Sequence presents an evening of experimental short films by bold and forward-thinking filmmakers from around the world. No theme. No rules. Expect a kaleidoscopic night where ideas, themes, textures and filmmaking techniques collide.
Tickets available here.
Glistening Thrills (Jodie Mack, 2013)
UK - 8’33”
Mechanisms (Ian Andrews, 2024)
Australia - 9’18”
Lemon With No Siblings (Bea Macdonald, 2024)
UK - 5’59”
Potemkin Piece (Justin Clifford Rhody, 2022)
USA - 1’35”
Summer Heat (( part ii )) (Sam Spreckley, 2017)
UK - 5’44”
Kosmos (Thorsten Fleisch, 2004)
Germany - 5’26”
Serial Parallels (Max Hattler, 2019)
Hong Kong - 9’00”
The Primal Wound (Carolin Meyer, 2024)
UK - 2’18”
A full artist’s statement on this work can be found here.
Death Tape (Matt McKinzie, 2025)
USA - 4’30”
Words of Water (Ellie Borzilleri, 2024)
USA - 4’30”
STST Film Club X Dream Sequence #2
Thursday, May 1, 2025 · 7 - 9.30pm GMT
Staffordshire St
49 Staffordshire St London SE15 5TJ
Dream Sequence presents an evening of contemporary experimental short films from exciting filmmakers from around the world.
This carefully curated programme features works that challenge conventional cinematic and narrative forms, embracing visual art as a central mode of expression. As non-narrative films, these works explore the materiality of film itself, pushing the boundaries of the medium through innovative filmmaking techniques and unconventional aesthetics.
Tickets available here.
¡PíFIES! (Ignacio Tamarit, 2004)
Agentina - 3’57”
Films To Break Projectors (Tim Grabham, 2016)
UK - 5’06”
Revenants: Compound Horizons (Sapphire Goss, 2024)
UK - 9’00”
eRoding (Will De Ritter, 2024)
UK - 1’44”
Film souping is the process of altering the chemical properties of a film by soaking it in liquid(s) prior to development. This film was souped, for varying amounts of time, in water taken from the River Roding, which has the highest level of PFAS pollution of any river in England.
Virage (Farzin Farzaneh, 2005)
Canada - 5’46”
Protest (Nicci Haynes, 2023)
Australia - 7’09”
Memories of the Shoreline, 1-4 (Chloe Charlon, 2021)
UK - 4’44”
The individual titles of the films are: Restless Quarrels Between Closest Companions, The Mutterings of Maritime Lichen, Chlorophyll Lessons on Rays and Rhythm, and Those Who Wait Up at Night.
Immersio (Sophie Bouloux, 2024)
France - 4’45”
A sonic and visual experience exploring duality. Immersio evokes light and shadow, the conscious and the unconscious, the blurring of the senses in a chaotic world, and the finitude of being.
Film Loop 31: Shinsendo & Film Loop 34: Ryoanji (Michael Lyons, 2016-2017)
Japan - 1’30” / Japan - 1’30”
An Ode to 10k Steps (Sharon Anatole, 2025)
UK - 1’46”
STST Film Club X Dream Sequence
Thursday, April 3, 2025 · 7 - 9.30pm GMT
Staffordshire St
49 Staffordshire St London SE15 5TJ
Presenting 10 contemporary experimental short films by 10 exciting and emerging filmmakers from around the world. No theme. No rules. Expect a kaleidoscopic night where different ideas, themes, textures, and filmmaking techniques can collide.
Tickets available here.
I Am Still Here (Sissi Kaplan, Vivian Wang and Cyril Wong, 2020)
Singapore - 11’43”
Vivian Wang is a Singapore-based composer, sound artist, and multi-instrumentalist. She is a member of art rock group The Observatory and ambient drone duo ARCN TEMPL.
Cyril Wong is a Singaporean poet and writer known for his emotional and lyrical works that explore themes of identity, love, and human connection. Wong has published several collections, including The Lover's Tongue and Unmarked Treasure, and is recognised as a prominent contemporary voice in Singapore’s literary scene.
The Last Seaport of Limerence (Melody Woodnutt, Crys Cole and James Rushford, 2025)
Australia - 6’11”
The work was created in collaboration with the experimental music duo Ora Clementi.
Ora Clementi is Canadian sound artist Crys Cole and Australian composer/performer James Rushford. Their work is disorientating and highly performative, utilising vocal mirroring and both electronic and handmade instruments. Their critically acclaimed 2021 album Sylva Sylvarum was released via Black Truffle.
Maspeth is America (Ben Kujawski, 2024)
USA - 6’59”
Mythology of Memory (Justin Brown and Adrian Cousins, 2024)
USA/UK - 6’08”
Adrian Cousins shoots Super 8 and 16mm film, hand-processing it using custom chemical techniques. Embracing an intentionally amateur aesthetic, his work focuses on capturing everyday life and fleeting moments, often highlighting minute details illuminated by transient natural light. His approach aligns with Jonas Mekas’ philosophy: “I make home movies - therefore I live. I live - therefore I make home movies.”
Abbaglia e Svanisci (Riccardo Tesorini, 2024)
Italy - 6’08”
About Wintering - Parts 1 - 3 (Nina Maria Allmoslechner, 2023 - Ongoing)
Austria/Italy - 2’49” (Part 1) / Austria/Spain - 3’03” (Part 2) / Austria - 4’58” (Part 3)
Part 1 explores Allmoslechner's mental health struggles and loss of sense of time, while Part 2 sees her confronting personal and collective grief during an artist residency in Spain. Finally, in Part 3, she explores her troubled relationship with her body, stemming from the premature puberty she experienced at the age of seven and a half.
A Life Half-Lived (Rob Munday, 2024)
UK - 7’32”
We Breathe Each Other In and Out of Existence (Archer Boyette, 2021)
USA - 5’25”
The film was originally presented as an installation incorporating 16mm clear leader with adhered botanicals, digitised projections, environmental field recordings, and tree stumps.
I Have Done It Again (Mor Fleisher Leach, 2023)
USA - 7’32”
Shape (Sida Wang, 2024)
Australia - 5’36”
Dream Sequence Presents: Films By Martine Rousset
Saturday, February 15 · 4 - 5:30pm GMT
SET Social
55a Nigel Road London SE15 4NP
Join us at SET Social for an afternoon screening of Mansfield K and Chants: two stunning poetic works by French experimental filmmaker Martine Rousset.
SET Social
55a Nigel Road London SE15 4NP
Join us at SET Social for an afternoon screening of Mansfield K and Chants: two stunning poetic works by French experimental filmmaker Martine Rousset.
Manfield K (1988)
France - 17’12”
France - 17’12”
Readings. A place. Purity of lines. Fine angles.
Dominance of whites and blues.
The fragility of tapered glass.
A visual evocation of the writing of Katherine Mansfield
Dominance of whites and blues.
The fragility of tapered glass.
A visual evocation of the writing of Katherine Mansfield
Chants (1995)
France - 22’03”
Scrutinising the image of this face, this gaze, we see the traces of raw stories, mineral light, and the fragments of an endless dream…
The insistent images collide, to the point of abstraction, with decomposed time, with the chaos of gleaming stones.
Of this returning face, nothing is said.
The gaze cannot be deciphered.
The illusion, even in the darkness, remains mute.
The signs of an absent song.
The insistent images collide, to the point of abstraction, with decomposed time, with the chaos of gleaming stones.
Of this returning face, nothing is said.
The gaze cannot be deciphered.
The illusion, even in the darkness, remains mute.
The signs of an absent song.
About
Martine Rousset
Martine Rousset studied Philosophy of Cinema at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier (1970 - 1976). She went on to work alongside Suzanne Pagé in the audiovisual department of Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (1979 - 2020).
Martine Rousset is an important and influential figure within French avant-garde cinema, having co-founded the Coopérative des Cinéastes in 1977 with Patrice Kirchhofer and Gérard Courant. In 1991, she co-founded the film group Dissolution alongside Jennifer Burford, Cécile Fontaine, Vivian Ostrovsky, Marcelle Thirache, Françoise Thomas, and Frédérique Devaux. The group is dedicated to conducting critical analysis of their combined work and to enabling the programming of their films throughout the world.
Rousset’s films have been exhibited at:
Berlin Film Festival (1980), MNAM, Paris (1989), Berkeley (1990), MoMA, New York (1995), Feminale, Cologne (1992/1994/1996), Osnabrück (1996), IMPACT (1996), Oberhausen (1998), Scratch (1998/2001/2003), Riga (2002), Pesaro (2003), Los Angeles Film Forum (2004), Festival des cinémas differents, Paris (2005), La Enana Marrón, Madrid (2005), Rencontre des labos de Bruxelles (2005), 10 ans de l'Abominable (2006), Taiwan Women in the Arts (2007), Les Inattendus, Lyon (2007), Belgrade Alternative Film Festival (2008), Les Écrans Documentaires (2008).
Dream Sequence #2
Friday, November 8, 2024 · 7 - 10pm GMT
Hundred Years Gallery
13 Pearson Street London E2 8JD
Join us at Hundred Years Gallery for another installment of Dream Sequence.
We’ll be showcasing a series of contemporary experimental shorts from a whole host of exciting fimmakers and artists from around the world.
Expect a kaleidoscopic night where a ideas, themes, textures, and filmmaking techniques collide.
DON’T KNOW WHAT (Thomas Renolder, 2019)
Austria - 8’20”
Marina Aleksander (NOW AND TOMORROW, 2022)
Denmark/UK - 12’31”
so come the storms of winter (+ other musings) (Alexis Parinas, 2024)
UK - 5’00”
Empty House (Ben Kujawski, 2022)
USA - 5’29”
Brackets (Cuttfruit, 2024)
UK - 1’27”
Everything Turns... (Aaron Zeghers, 2016)
Canada - 12’32”
Great Sale Wood (Michaela Davis, 2024)
UK - 2’02”
Advice for Light Baring Frogs (A'isha Odera, 2024)
UK - 2’02”
Yesterday and Yesterday (Michael Dietrich, 2021)
Austria - 5’45”
Wolf (Luke Casey, 2021)
Hong Kong - 3’11”
Dream Sequence #1
Thu, 5 Sep 2024 19:00 - 21:30 BST
SET Social
55a Nigel Road London SE15 4NP
Join us at SET Social for Dream Sequence, an anything-goes experimental film night.
From surrealist animation to analogue video synthesis and everything in between, expect a kaleidoscopic night of experimental shorts from a whole host of exciting filmmakers and artists. No theme. No rules.
Lepidoptera (Edd Carr, 2022)
UK - 3’37”
To Do (Saul Pankhurst, 2022)
UK - 3’14”
Coiled Fall (Sergej Vutuc, 2018)
Unknown - 7’49”
Seashells from Yalova, Penzance and Rye (Ela Kazdal, 2024)
Türkiye/UK - 4’57”
they will bury us in code (Autojektor, 2023)
UK - 3’59”
bill evans bill evans bill evans - very very very early (Autumn Green, 2024)
USA - 6’17”
PIXELA-ZZZ (Lucy Ellis, 2024)
UK - 1’48”
The Domesticated Cat (Benny Douet, 2024)
UK - 1’20”
Cyborgian Monologue: Exploring Analog and Digital Consciousness (Egle Saka, 2023)
UK - 1’20”
Bouquet (Sam Brewster, 2024)
UK - 1’48”