Frames of Representation: New Visions for Cinema 2018

A workshop exploring Allah's distinctive methodology which seeks to resist the stereotypes that still often frame discussions of race and marginalisation.

A film-poem to Jamaica, conjuring up the island in a polyphony of voices, textures and tales.

The first ever FRAMES of REPRESENTATION secret screening is the international premiere of a film that probes complex power dynamics through a constantly shifting moral and ethical lens.

Filmmakers from Portugal's influential TERRATREME collective discuss their vision for independent film production, as well as the new possibilities and challenges facing filmmakers today.

A warm-hearted picaresque following a man travelling to Cape Verde in search of his father.

Tracing the tensions and possibilities of building a community in a remote and rapidly changing environment.

Drawing out the complex implications of formal choices and ethics, the seminar reflects on contemporary film's responsibilities in a rapidly changing present.

Explores the significance of the human while evoking the interconnectedness of relationships and resources in an extreme environment.

Shot over eight years by 62 cinematographers in 70 countries, this essay-film interweaves moments of playful superficiality with insightful commentary and formal lyricism, challenging us to reconsider the significance of life, the universe and film today.

A special, tongue-in-cheek lecture exploring the creative and production challenges of making the whistleblowing documentary parody 'In Praise of Nothing'.

A programme of three short films followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

This sensitive observational work offers a portrait of the difficulties and dreams of individuals living together in a remote, rural environment.

Compiling diverse fragments of actual CCTV footage, Chinese artist Xu Bing constructs an unsettling fictional narrative that questions how the spaces in which we live and come to know ourselves are framed, increasingly, by the gaze of others.

What tools does cinema offer for exploring the complex relationships between data collection, surveillance and storytelling?

An associative, non-linear story of a breakaway ex-Soviet state in which the borders between past and present remain unsettled.

A space to explore such topics as the intertwinement of methodology and ethics, the significance of 'landscape' today and the filmmaker's responsibility towards it.

An immersion in the intense world of the Russian military training apparatus, observing the changes that take place in young soldiers as they prepare for violent conflict.

A deft weave of cosmology with astute political commentary, this film explores the ethics of how we remember the stories, places and voices which have disappeared.

A discussion about the process of making a film about memory, and how the urgency and immediacy of the present might emerge through a focus on unheard fragments of the past.

A presentation of two subtitled audio works in which women travel in their imaginations - returning to landscapes from their past or escaping into audio adventures.

A reflection on the complex interplay of the personal and political in a Buenos Aires neighbourhood.

An exploration of how particular landscapes and their inhabitants resist reductive perspectives through different forms of artistic imagination.

A programme of three short films with the directors in attendance.

An immersive and visceral engagement with violence of different kinds: the violence of loss, of family dispute, and ultimately, of history.