A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey
Palestine, 2008, Hany Abu-Assad, 5min
Three boys search for a camera to shoot their action movie. A seriocomic tale about the youthful impulse to create fiction while under surveillance.
If the Sun Drowned into an Ocean of Clouds
France & Lebanon, 2023, Wissam Charaf, 20min
Set in Beirut, this comedic tale portrays a security guard preventing pedestrians from entering the waterfront while it is being built, all for what reason?
The Purpose was to Document the Other Side
Bangladesh & United Kingdom, 2023, Laisul Hoque, 15min
A personal account of film as a means of mediating between generations through sharing memory and authorship.
Poppets
United Kingdom, 2022, Maz Murray, 16min
Camp, absurd, and melodramatic, Maz Murray presents a surreal soap opera set in Basildon that depicts the looming threat of urbanisation and malpractice in a local housing development in East London.
Sunflower Siege Engine
United States, 2022, Sky Hopinka, 12min
Archival footage and dreamscapes are woven together to explore the reclamation of land, self and agency. Past histories of colonisation, abolition and repatriation are documented through personal narratives and reflections on the Indigenous Occupation of Alcatraz.
