Double Vision
Films that dispel visual certainties to present new optical perceptions.
Helen de Witt
This programme contains sequences of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Total running time 115 min
Films in this programme
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Gong
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Kitchen Beets
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Instructions on How to Make a Film
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Muybridge’s Disobedient Horses
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Eastern State
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Early Years
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Lore
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Video Home System
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Mensch Maschine or Putting Parts Together
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A State of Grace
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A Line was Drawn
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A Love
Film 1
Gong
The greatest British film company emblematically deconstructed.
Dir David Leister. UK 2019. 5min
Festival guests
These members of the filmmaking team are expected to attend the festival:
- David Leister, director; Lucy Harris, producer.
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Film 2
Kitchen Beets
The domestic merging of musicality and semiotics.
Dir Bea Haut. UK 2019. 1min
Festival guests
This member of the filmmaking team is expected to attend the festival:
- Bea Haut, director.
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Film 3
Instructions on How to Make a Film
Think 16mm filmmaking is serious not sexy? Think again.
Dir Nazlı Dinçel. USA-Canada 2018. 13min
Film 4
Muybridge’s Disobedient Horses
Everyday objects and movements are employed as cinematographic mechanisms.
Dir Anna Vasof. Austria 2018. 5min
Film 5
Eastern State
Found footage of one of the oldest US mental health institutions communicates something beyond its intended purpose.
Dir Talena Sanders. USA 2019. 5min
Festival guests
This member of the filmmaking team is expected to attend the festival:
- Talena Sanders, director.
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Film 6
Early Years
Family photographs reconstruct the story of a Jamaican child living in Southend.
Dir Morgan Quaintance. UK 2019. 16min
Film 7
Lore
Transparent images dance around a lightbox to create new apparitions.
Dir Sky Hopinka. USA 2019. 10min
Film 8
Video Home System
How bootleg video kept the Pakistani film industry alive under censorship in the 1980s and 90s.
Dir Sharlene Bamboat. Canada 2018. 19min
Film 9
Mensch Maschine or Putting Parts Together
Parents of a female artist give her a food processor instead of a synthesiser. Why?
Dir Adina Camhy. Austria 2019. 8min
Film 10
A State of Grace
Safety is not funny except when experienced by this artist.
Dir John Smith. UK 2019. 3min
Festival guests
These members of the filmmaking team are expected to attend the festival:
- John Smith, director; Miranda Pennell, producer.
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Film 11
A Line was Drawn
Delineations of control structured through the creation of restrictive borders.
Dir Mairéad McClean. UK 2019. 14min
Festival guests
This member of the filmmaking team is expected to attend the festival:
- Mairead McClean, director.
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Film 12
A Love
An engagement with love and loss, presence and absence that become ritualised in need for recognition.
Dir Anne-Marie Copestake. UK 2019. 16min
Festival guests
This member of the filmmaking team is expected to attend the festival:
- Anne-Marie Copestake, director.
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