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London Film Festival · 2016

London Film Festival 2016

Experimenta

The feature films in this strand are below. There is also an additional programme of short film showcases.

Programme

12 films

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Ascent

Experimental journey to Mount Fuji.

(Country: Japan, Netherlands; Year: 2016; Director: Fiona Tan; Writer: Fiona Tan; Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa)

Experimenta gala

Born In Flames

In a futuristic US feminist groups try to challenge male power.

(Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Lizzie Borden; Writer: Lizzie Borden, Ed Bowes; Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy, Becky Johnston, Pat Murphy, Kathryn Bigelow, Hillary Hurst, Sheila McLaughlin, Marty Pottenger, Lynne Jones, Ron Vawter, John Coplans, John Rudolph, Warner Schreiner)

Confessions To The Mirror

A re-imagination of the life and work of the surrealist Claude Cahun.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Sarah Pucill; Stars: Kate Hart, Karen Leroy Harris, and the voices of Carolyn Saint-Pé, Louise Larchbourne, Lucy Briggs-Owen)

Dawson City: Frozen Time

A history in still and moving images charting the transformation of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in fishing camp at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Bill Morrison)

Eglantine

A young girl has a fantastical adventure in a forest one night.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Margaret Salmon; Writer: Margaret Salmon)

Exprmntl

Documentary about the word's first festival dedicated to avant-garde cinema.

(Country: France, Germany, Belgium, Austria; Year: 2016; Director: Brecht Debackere; Writer: Debackere Brecht, Brecht Debackere; Stars: Gabrielle Claes, Eric De Kuyper, Harun Farocki, Birgit Hein, Peter Kubelka, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jacques Ledoux, Boris Lehman, Roland Lethem, Jonas Mekas, Werner Nekes, Godfried Willem Raes, Robert Stéphane, Agnès Varda)

Further Beyond

Tracing the footsteps of Ambrose O'Higgins from Ireland to Chile in the 18th Century.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2016; Director: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy; Writer: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy; Stars: Denise Gough, Alan Howley, Jose Miguel Jimenez)

Have You Seen My Movie?

Montage of moments from cinema-going.

(Country: UK, Canada; Year: 2016; Director: Anton Smith)

The Illinois Parables

Experimental documentary. Eleven parables recount events from the history of the state of Illinois: regional vignettes about faith, force, technology and exodus.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Deborah Stratman; Writer: Deborah Stratman; Stars: Raven Wolf C Felton Jennings II, Joshua Frieman, Anna Toborg, Jose Oubrerie, Daniel Verdier, David Gatten, Chris Bournea, Riley Cruttenden, Joshua Finnell, Paul Hill)

Showing with Machine Space

I Had Nowhere To Go

Portrait of US avant-garde pioneer Jonas Mekas.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Douglas Gordon; Writer: Douglas Gordon, Ninon Liotet; Stars: Jonas Mekas)

Machine Space

Essay film about Detroit.

(Country: UK, US; Year: 2016; Director: Stephen Connolly)

Showing with The Illinois Parables

Moderation

A horror film production begins to disintegrate.

(Country: UK, Greece; Year: 2016; Director: Anja Kirschner; Writer: Anja Kirschner, Maya Lubinsky, Anna De Filippi; Stars: Maya Lubinsky, Anna De Filippi, Aida Elkashef, Michele Valley, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Adham Zidan, Pauline Huguet, Stavroula Siamou, Areti Seidaridou, Giorgos Valais, Laura Riccioli, Adriano Saleri, Lida Dalla)