Anne Rees-Mogg, UK, 16mm, 1966, 10 min.
The title is a quotation from Duchamp. The film is about the colours and structures of soap bubbles, oil on water etc.

Margaret Tait, UK, 16mm, 1974, 4 min.
Touches on elemental images. Air, water (and snow), earth, fire (and smoke), all come into it. For sound there’s a drawn out musical sound, single piano notes and some neutral sounds.

Annabel Nicolson, UK, 16mm, 1977, 3 min.
A last look at the London Filmmakers’ Co-op when it was housed in an old Victorian dairy.

Lucy Parker, UK, digital & 16mm, 2016, 6 min.
Fire was made for an event at the ICA programmed by Lucy Reynolds about experiments in sound, film and performance to accompany the exhibition “The sun went in, the fire went out: landscapes in film, performance and text”, curated by Karen Di Franco and Elisa Kay at Chelsea Space. The film responds to Annabel Nicolson’s performative explorations of light and fire as well as the title of the exhibition. “The sun went in, the fire went out” is a line of text taken from a notebook of the archaeologist and writer Jacquetta Hawkes, author of A Land (1951), a poetic history of the British Isles through its geology. In the film two woman experiment with various arduous methods to ignite a fire. The film combines negative and positive film image and can be screened with live sound.

Alia Syed, UK, 16mm, 2011, 10 min.
Priya is an extended aerial shot of a twirling Kathak dancer. The footage was buried in various organic materials deteriorating the initial image in an attempt to shift cultural specificity and linear narratives of time and space. Rituals of burial expound successive memories of entombment; the skin of the film becomes the body of the dancer, fracturing time into a darkly evocative, psychological space.

Luke Fowler, UK, 16mm, 3 min.

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Luke Fowler, UK, 16mm, 3 min.
As the winning artist of the 2008 Film London Jarman Award, Luke Fowler was commissioned to produce four short films for 3 Minute Wonder, Channel 4’s shorts strand. Entitled, Anna, Helen, David and Lester, they are a series of portraits of four diverse individuals brought together through a shared residence – a flat in a Victorian tenement in the West End of Glasgow.

Manon de Boer, Belgium, 16mm to vídeo, 2016, 8 min.
A collection of images of constructions of the artists’ son filmed over a period of three years. The duration of each shot is around 20 seconds, the length of time you can film with a Bolex 16mm camera when winding it manually.

Laida Lertxundi, USA, 16mm, 2011, 6 min.
In a Los Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved one. A film of the feminine structuring body. (L.L.)

Moira Sweeney, UK, 16mm, 1989, 18 min.
Imaginary is a film in three parts (From Today, Touched and One) shot in varying intimate and personal environments. Fleeting images are re-filmed and stylised in an unsentimental manner.