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London Film Festival · 2014

London Film Festival 2014

Experimenta

Showing with The Film That Buys The Cinema - a collection of films commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema the Cube.

Programme

21 films · 1 review

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45 7 Broadway

Experimental film about Times Square.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Tomonari Nishikawa)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

72-82

The first ten years of the groundbreaking London arts organisation Acme are explored through rarely seen archival film and new interviews.

(Year: 2014; Director: William Raban; Writer: William Raban)

Afsan's Long Day (The Young Man Was, Part 2)

Exploring the role of the radical left in 1970s Bangladesh through a series of inter-connected vignettes.

(Country: Bangladesh; Year: 2014; Director: Naeem Mohaiemen)

Showing as part of Material Evidence, A Major/Minor History.

Blinder

Short focusing on domestic blinds.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: David Leister)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

Béton Brut

Brutalist architecture short.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Timothy Smith)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

Dark Light

Reflecting on the state of the world.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: John Smith)

Showing as part of This Illuminated World is Full of Stupid Men.

Dog People

Futuristic tale of colonialism.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

From A to B

A brief moment of life flies past, filmed in flickers in front of Andy Warhol’s Empire State Building.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Julia Dogra-Brazell)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

The Inextinguishable Fire (Nicht löschbares Feuer)

Experimental film concerning the use of napalm.

(Country: West Germany; Year: 1969; Director: Harun Farocki; Writer: Harun Farocki; Stars: Gerd Volker Bussäus, Harun Farocki, Caroline Gremm, Hanspeter Krüger, Ingrid Oppermann)

Showing with Parallel I-IV

Letters To Max

Review preview for Letters To Max

This is a film based upon letter carrying as an act of politics, a text where Mcluhan's "medium is the message" becomes circular.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
The story of the contested state of Abkhazia told though an exchange of letters between the filmmaker and its Minister of Foreign Affairs.

(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Eric Baudelaire)

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Mars Garden

Lightbox experimental film feature comic book heroes.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Lewis Klahr)

Showing as part of This Illuminated World is Full of Stupid Men.

Monsters

If you look carefully, monsters of the prehistoric past will emerge from the landscape around you.

(Year: 2014; Director: Toby Tatum)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

Near Real Time

Experimental film exploring subjectivity on TV.

(Country: UK, France; Year: 2014; Director: Gail Pickering)

Showing as part of Material Evidence, A Major/Minor History.

Ronse

(Country: Belgium, Netherlands; Year: 2013; Director: Robbrecht Desmet)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

Sons of Unless and Children of Almost (official theatrical trailer)

Gif-driven short.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Phil Coy)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

The Take-Up

Examination of light bending.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Patrick Tarrant)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.

Transcalar Investment Vehicles

Post-apocalyptic tale centring on a financier.

(Country: UK, Senegal, South Africa, Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Hilary Koob-Sassen; Writer: Hilary Koob-Sassen, Hilary Koob-Sassen; Stars: Chipo Chung, Hilary Koob-Sassen)

Showing as part of This Illuminated World is Full of Stupid Men.

Unheimlich I: Secret Dialogue

(Country: France; Year: 1979; Director: Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki; Stars: Elia Akrivou, Maria Klonaris, Katerina Thomadaki)

The Unreliable Narrator

In Mumbai, terrorists play into the hands of Bollywood filmmakers rushing to register epic film titles.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Karen Mirza, Brad Butler)

Showing as part of Material Evidence, A Major/Minor History.

When You Fall Into A Trance

Exploration of the complexities mind and body connectedness.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Emily Wardill; Writer: Emily Wardill)

Wotruba

Reconstruction, through photos, of Vienna’s unique Church of the Most Holy Trinity.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2014; Director: Thomas Draschan)

Showing as part of Occupied Territories.