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- Blacklisted construction workers and activists spied on by the police share their ongoing struggles. It follows meetings between activists and law students, revealing the determination of a community working to find a route to justice.
- Fulll Firearms is the first feature film by British artist Emily Wardill. Based on the legend of Sarah Winchester, it presents the story of Imelda, the daughter of an arms manufacturer, who is possessed by the idea that she will be haunted by the ghosts of those killed by her father's weapons. She uses her inheritance to build a house intended to accommodate the ghosts and lessen her guilt. Her fantasies are contrasted with the targeted approach of the architect who tries to implement her wishes architecturally, but whose grasp of reality becomes increasingly unsettled as the building is occupied by squatters who Imelda believes to be the ghosts she has been expecting and who take up a permanent place in her life. Wardill builds a melodramatic narrative that breaks up, shifts and ultimately confounds a linear reading. The film revolves around the relationships between the protagonists and their behavior in times of conflict. Wardill creates a tension between characters that exist at the borders of their physical and mental capacity and demonstrates that instability, paranoia and a loss of reality are not found on the edges of modern society, but at its center. They represent the drivers of a plot that questions the normalization and control of social behavior. It is the delusions of the protagonist, Imelda, which draws the story along and undermines the distinction between imagination and reality. (250 words) Emily Wardill (b. 1977) lives in London. Her films have been screened at Witte de With, Rotterdam; London Film Festival; New York Film Festival; Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Britain, London; among others. Solo shows (selection): Badischer Kunstverien, Karlsruhe; De Appel, Amsterdam; MCA, St. Louis; List Visual Art Center, MIT, Cambridge; STANDARD(OLSO), Fortescue Avenue, Jonathan Viner, London; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London. Group shows (selection): MuHKA, Antwerp; 54th Venice Biennale; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh; Hayward Gallery, London and MOCA, Miami. In this movie appears Wolf Kahler who played Ludendorff, chemist and close friend of Fritz Shimon Haber's in Haber (2008).
- Abyss portrays an urban reality that is characterized in different ways by migration - people in motion, the transferal of money and power, and the transgressions of the imagination. The characters move around in an exploratory fashion, blurring private and public spaces. The focus is on a woman and her 'negotiations' of the physical and economic surroundings, but the cityscape remains the main protagonist in the film, whereby the city's economical, political and social dynamics appear to have been absorbed into the character's movements, speech and psychology.
- Shifting between documentary, historical reconstruction and melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.
- Wordland is ostensibly a film about the eroding east coast of England and the effects of floods on this area, contrasting the well-known and devastating flood of 1953 with the flood of 2007. Filmed in and around the small villages of Walcott and Cley next the Sea, the film combines interviews, field recordings, archive footage and a specially commissioned sound score from musician, Alexander Tucker.