- Testament to the adage that truth is stranger than fiction, Shut Up Little Man introduces us to a viral phenomenon that predates the internet and the strange underground phenomenon of ‘audio verite’. It all began in San Francisco in 1987 when two mid-west punks, Eddie and Mitch moved into a cruddy flat with noisy neighbours [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Scrapper uncovers a bizarre subculture in the Californian desert, a community eking out a living illegally collecting scrap from military testing sites. Groups of outlaw survivalists risk life and limb infiltrating lethal impact areas to carry off small mountains of lucrative aluminium bomb casings and brass shells and filmmaker Stephan Wassmann follows them into no [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A fascinating, eye-opening history of LSD provides an enlightening journey through the innovations and contradictions of the late twentieth century. By coincidence rather than design the swiss chemist Albert Hofmann makes a sensational discovery in the spring of 1943. He realizes that he is dealing with a powerful molecule that will have an impact beyond [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A humorous and intimate account of the Leeds Jewish Community charting their rags to riches story from the ghettos of Eastern Europe to the self-made empires of Marks & Spencer, Burton’s Clothing and countless more. Combining drama with documentary, a 19th Century Russian Jew searches the city of Leeds for a people that have moved [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Can the electronic stutters, crashes, errors and glitches that we encounter with technology in our day-to-day lives be considered beautiful in their own right? This programme of extraordinary video work showcases contemporary artists who exploit and explore the imperfections hidden in the signal/ data structures of moving image technology to striking effect. Recalling early video [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A surreal masterpiece, newly restored and subtitled, and Japan’s first feature-length underground film. One of the leading figures of Japan’s 60s avant-garde art scene, Adachi co-founded the communal living space and artist’s lab VAN Film Science Research Centre, was scriptwriter for Koji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Oshima, and joined the Palestinian liberation movement in the early [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A shop unit in Granary Wharf by the river Aire has been transformed into a temporary Microcinema for this long weekend of experimental film, offering stunning pieces by original filmmakers for your pleasure and illumination! The Microcinema shows that any location can become a cinema given a few basic ingredients. Enjoy complimentary drinks and the [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Poland’s biggest ever box office hit, ‘80s comedy Sex Mission is a cult guilty pleasure and a crowd-pleasing delight. Unashamedly bawdy and seriously satirical, it’s like an Eastern Bloc Carry On film directed by Woody Allen. Sex meets sci-fi as two scientists awaken after a 50-year cryogenic slumber to discover a postnuclear apocalyptic world in [...]Click to read more about this film »
- This delightful Singaporean film follows a lovable Tamil magician (played by real-life magician Bosco Francis) whose magic tricks are brilliant to behold on screen! Performing magic to make the locals smile, including fire tricks, jaw-dropping glass-eating and loads more (all performed in reality!), this big-hearted magician is an important figure to his son but hard [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A delightful crowd-pleasing musical crime comedy from Sweden. Police Officer Warnebring suffers from a hatred of all music and his life is thrown into chaos when he is assigned to his first sonic crime spree. A band of outlaw musicians are causing havoc with shock guerilla gig tactics using anything in their path as instruments. [...]Click to read more about this film »
