Experimenta

Afterlives

Media artist, filmmaker and critic Kevin B. Lee presents an unflinchingly complex and thought-provoking tapestry that interrogates the many faces of violence confronting our lives.

Anatomy of Place, Sites of Becoming

Films in this programme consider how spaces hold the weight of what came before and the traces of what may emerge, moving through landscapes where memory, body and terrain shifts and transforms against time.

Back and Forth Across the Line

This programme of films interrogates a myriad of borders. Some are physical, geo-politically determined, others are socially inscribed. Many more are difficult to define. All are porous, even when it seems they’re not.

Cadences of Refusal

Activated by political urgency and defiance, these five works envision a collective reimagining and remaking of the world. Each crafts a counter-grammar to traditional non-fiction cinema – grounded in poetry, fragmentation, inquiry and the voice.

Hotel London

A Bangladeshi family confronts the harsh realities of temporary unstable housing in London, in a newly remastered drama that blends fiction with video activism.

In the Clouds Flecks of Memories Pass By

These films embody memories: some personal, others inherited or found. At times they’re mesmerising, yet fissures can appear in the depicted recollections. Subjectivity comes into focus. Established narratives are destabilised.

The Memory of Butterflies

Drawing from the shadows of the colonial rubber trade, this evocative film uncovers the lost stories of two Indigenous men taken to London to be ‘civilised’.

Shadows of the Living

Here, human and more‑than‑human lives intermingle in peculiar ways. Each film uncovers untamed stories where power, survival and transformation twist into unanticipated forms.