The Length of Day is a collaged essay film that tells the emotional history of socialism in the United States. Filmmaker Laura Conway enacts a cinematic séance, using archival documents to communicate with her departed communist grandparents and ask them questions about the end of capitalism.

The Length of Day

Two aging communists tell their story of love, betrayal and political espionage in this experimental short.

Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in Iranian post-revolution cinema.

Irani Bag

Using excerpts of films produced between 1990 and 2018, Irani Bag is a split-screen video essay questioning the innocence of bags in Iranian post-revolution cinema.

“It was 1974, war had lasted for years…” So begins the memory of an old Chinese man who lived through the regime of the Khmer Rouge led by the Communist Party of Cambodia. The tightly controlled Cambodian media left very few images between 1975 and 1979. This was a time when millions of people died unnecessarily and about 200,000 were people of Chinese descent. Guangli Liu’s film is a collective imagination of that lost history based on propaganda videos and the disaster videos which spread throughout the world after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Narrated through the autobiographical voice, a tender, personal history unfurls as a virtual reality of an imagined recent past. Detailing the human condition and traumas of the dispossessed. The contrast between the archive footage and the 3D reconstruction shows the role of the experimental digital as it interweaves memory with history into the universal of being human.

When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest

Through a 3D virtual universe simulated by a game engine intertwined with archives, a lost moment of history can be experienced. The story revolves around the memory of a Chinese survivor of Khmer Rouge. This tragedy, which took the lives of 2 million people, continues to reshape our present

Dialogue (2021) consists of two films (No More, 2013 and Broadcast,2016) placed side beside to create a ‘dialogue’ between them. Both deal with the period of my father's internment in Long Kesh Prison in Northern Ireland 1971-72 as seen through archive footage and personal, family memorabilia.

Dialogue (No More, 2013/Broadcast, 2016) Diptych, 2021

A slice of history seen through the eye of a family experience in 1970's Northern Ireland

Sisterhood and solidarity nourished the thirty-two Irish Republican women POWs at Armagh Gaol (Jail) in 1980, as they embarked on a transgressive, challenging, and oft-overlooked No-Wash protest against British Colonialism

We Had Each Other

Sisterhood and solidarity nourished the thirty-two Irish Republican women POWs at Armagh Gaol (Jail) in 1980

For centuries Cuban Musical Folklore has been an essential component of cultural life in the port city of Matanzas. ‘Vida Buena’ sees this tradition come to life through the musical virtuosity of Los Matanzeros. This portrait of a community is a human mixtape, piecing together disparate interviews, blending public and private performance against a symphonic urban backdrop.

Vida Buena

Los Matanzeros, an extended family band, perform Cuban Musical Folklore, bringing a 300 year old tradition to life.

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