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  • 2018
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    Outside the Box

    Outside the Box

    1 2018 HD

    Tody is a lonely bird slaving his life away in a packaging factory. He dreams of a better life in the sunshine with someone there who actually cares...

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  • 1997
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    Peggy Su!

    Peggy Su!

    6.00 1997 HD

    Peggy wants to be married.......

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  • 1995
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    The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

    The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity

    6.40 1995 HD

    A father and son rescue the sole survivor of a train crash.

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  • 1998
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    Babymother

    Babymother

    3.30 1998 HD

    A single mother determined to make it as a singer puts together an all-girl reggae group named Neeta, Sweeta, & Nastie with her friends. Living in a...

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  • 1994
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    What She Wants

    What She Wants

    7.00 1994 HD

    A woman travelling on the underground is bedeviled with images of desire. What She Wants – wholly created on an Amiga 1500 home computer...

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  • 1999
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    Regression

    Regression

    1 1999 HD

    A portrait of the artist as a not so young man. The film-maker attempts to enter the digital age by making a new video version of his 1978 film 7P.

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  • 2012
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    Where is the Fish that Never Swam?

    Where is the Fish that Never Swam?

    1 2012 HD

    The film revolves a supposedly pivotal moment in Brown's life – his decision to quit accountancy in 1950s Glasgow for comedy after the death of...

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  • 2017
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    More Utopias Now!

    More Utopias Now!

    1 2017 HD

    2016 marks the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia. His pioneering account of an ideal society (the original meaning of the word utopia...

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  • 2013
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    Magic Mirror

    Magic Mirror

    1 2013 HD

    Magic Mirror combines a re-staging of the French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun’s black and white photographs with selected extracts from her...

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  • 2016
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    Confessions to the Mirror

    Confessions to the Mirror

    1 2016 HD

    A sumptuous and passionate reimagining of Claude Cahun's life.

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  • 1994
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    Jumping Joan

    Jumping Joan

    1 1994 HD

    With the dark resonance of the nursery rhyme from which it is drawn, this river story probes isolation and imagination, all painted directly onto...

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  • 1999
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    Vanished! A Video Seance

    Vanished! A Video Seance

    1 1999 HD

    Vanished! A Video Seance is a true story. In 1932 elderly parents and their young daughter came to live in isolation on a windswept hill on the west...

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  • 1997
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    Diary of a Madman

    Diary of a Madman

    1 1997 HD

    An update of Gogol's comic story about a man who thinks the way to his boss's heart is by sending letters to her dog. Starring Steve Evets, Yasmin...

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  • 2019
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    This Camera is Broken

    This Camera is Broken

    1 2019 HD

    An ageing director is making her final film: one delving into her past. Face to face with the embodiment of her younger self, the line between her...

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  • 1998
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    Pleasures of War

    Pleasures of War

    5.50 1998 HD

    A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire.

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  • 2021
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    The Birth of the Telephone

    The Birth of the Telephone

    1 2021 HD

    Originating from footage of Thomas Watson relating the conception of the telephone, Birth of the Telephone distorts and challenges the simplicity of...

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  • 2021
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    Relic 2

    Relic 2

    1 2021 HD

    The third film in the series, ‘Relic 2’ forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong, which...

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  • 2023
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    Solitude

    Solitude

    1 2023 HD

    Readings from the poets Byron, Keats, Brontë, Tennyson, Coleridge and songs from the dark repertoire of the singer Nico with portraits from the...

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  • 2000
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    Mavis and the Mermaid

    Mavis and the Mermaid

    1 2000 HD

    A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.

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  • 2014
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    Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen

    Hyperlinks or It Didn't Happen

    10.00 2014 HD

    HYPERLINKS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN is narrated by the failed CGI rendering of a recently deceased actor, PHIL, and follows a group of digital...

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